Honest to goodness: Finding virtue in 'Happy-Go- Lucky'
2012; Issue: 65 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1449-857X
Autores Tópico(s)Law in Society and Culture
ResumoMike Leigh is the master of the character study film, documenting ordinary people who live their lives outside of the norm. A seam of oddball characters and misfits runs through his work - from the jittery chainsmoker Nicola (Jane Horrocks) in 'Life is Sweet' (1991) to the arch-misanthrope Johnny (David Thewlis) in 'Naked' (1993). In 'Happy-Go- Lucky' (2008), Leigh examines the life of Poppy (Sally Hawkins), a garrulous thirty-year-old North London primary school teacher with a sunny disposition. Poppy has a close-knit bunch of friends and a healthy social life, and she takes a running jump at most of the challenges that she faces armed with nothing but her cracking sense of humour and a belief that things will all work out for the best. It says something about the ever-evolving 'norm' that Leigh's latest outcast is someone so patently well adjusted - these days, the real fish out of water is the happy person in an unhappy society.
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