I want to tell you about another little gem of these Oscar 2009: "The happiness it brings luck." The British director Mike Leigh, four years later, by award-winning "The Vera Drake," returns to speak about women and this time choose for the extraordinary and unexpected star Sally Hawkins. Actress Pauline interpreters, whose friends call Poppy, a spirited woman and always cheerful. He lives in London, in a small apartment with his best friend. Teaches elementary school and his days pass between work, driving lessons and flamenco and out with her friends (the only change in his life is the beginning of a relationship with a young social worker). But what Poppy is characterized by his exuberance, his smile ee desire to make better the world around her.
Sally Hawkins
And so trying to help people it comes into contact and to repair their malaise, as is the case with the bookseller crabby, with the driving instructor and fanatic repressed, with the teacher of flamenco that has crying spells, the child who beats the other to school with her sister and bigoted and hysterical. Poppy keeps repeating like a slogan: "Smile to life." And basically in this simple phrase that sounds like a motto we find the meaning of the title which is less to our national proverb "a light heart, God helps." The character of Poppy, with her ever ready to be a joke, a laugh, with his pace a bit 'awkward and funny the way she, her clothes kitsch and its multi-colored bracelets, his character a bit 'eccentric but joyful, makes us understand that life can be gray and full of difficulties, but face it with joy and energy can make it more colorful and lighter. In this regard we note that London, for once is not just fog, rain and dark tones, but also color, parks and sun. The portray the city in this light becomes the parable of desire make more lively and smiling his life and that of others.
Sally Hawkins interpreters carefree and jovial character Poppy
"Life is like a game" in the sense that we are in and we can not pull out but we must accept the rules and not stop playing. Behind the entr'actes and Poppy's optimism, lies a breakout comedy only in appearance. In reality we are faced with a movie, which also makes a good uomore, but it does reflect a lot and where the moments of sadness are still there. Beautiful scene of the encounter with the homeless and the final outburst, full of despair driving instructor Scott.
One of the many funny faces and funny Poppy
during the film manages to pack a Mike Leigh film, full of humor but also of wisdom in which phrases such as "Are you afraid of death?" or "Look around, what do you see? See happiness, you see a policy to bring happiness to people?" are put in the mouths of actors in ordinary conversation and almost trivial, but caught in their importance to invite us think about current issues and realistic. Even the final scene and dialogue are emblematic in this sense to understand the true meaning that hides in the seemingly empty and banal plot of the film: Poppy and her best friend are at the park and doing a small tour boat in the lake. In this sequence, the row indicates the metaphor of travel as a way of our existence, which is long and sometimes difficult and sad, but maybe we should all learn to laugh and smile more and then maybe we can be happier and make them even those around us.
Sally Hawkins and Alexis Zegerman
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