This is the symbolic beginning of the film "Happy-Go-Lucky" (Happy-Go-Lucky). This "light comedy" by Mike Lee, the "Last British Writer and Director", was recently released in the United States. It was unexpectedly highly sought after and received high praise from mainstream media such as the "New York Times" and audiences. Sally Hawkins, the heroine from the United Kingdom, won the "Hollywood Breakthrough Actress of the Year" recently, and it is said that she has also become a big hit for the Oscar for Best Actress. In fact, this plain-looking British actress has just set foot in Hollywood, although she has already won the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Poppy, played by Hawkins, is an elementary school teacher. The most unique thing is that she is a kind of "old kid" (compared to children, she who is exactly 30 years old is indeed too old. Compared to adults, she who has always maintained her innocence and optimism is really too child. Up). She always looks at everything like a child who knows nothing. She always shows her smile and humor to everyone without hesitation. It can be said that she always lives in a kind of "Stay happy". )’S self-mood world... However, this real world does not seem to allow the existence of such “old children”. The kind of “life is always as first seen” in her mind is related to the various realities of life that she faces, A sharp contradiction has been formed.
Her enthusiasm and joking about her driving instructor, in exchange for quarrels and misunderstandings, because her behavior that is not commensurate with her age has become self-willed in the eyes of others, and even seen as a kind of sexual provocation; Jumping and having fun on the trampoline, in exchange for muscle strain, she had to accept that her body was no longer flexible and was no longer suitable for this strenuous exercise; she went to learn flamenco dancing, but encountered A female dance teacher who went crazy because of her husband’s empathy; she went to visit a pregnant friend, only to find that this good friend whom she hadn’t seen for a long time had changed drastically...
Obviously, Poppy's childlike optimism is constantly frustrated by reality. Although she is still happy as before and laughs loudly, but the melancholy violin sounded from time to time in each segment has repeatedly embellished a lingering sense of depression, which clearly shows that Poppy uses optimism to resist the weakness and weakness of reality. Ah Q. Although this kind of narration of Poppy’s daily life is somewhat trivial or even chattering, and every little thing in it can’t be said to contain any great sorrow, but when the director makes a frequent similar narrative, this sorrow will become It thickened, and a sense of sadness from seeing the dead leaves spinning in the wind from midsummer to late autumn pierced people's hearts. In fact, isn't this just like our lives? Unhappiness often comes from a superposition of various trivial matters, but these trivial matters will gradually form a big net of life, which makes people a little breathless.
The net shown in this movie is about a group of people who are traditionally considered to be "carefree." To be precise, this big net is a kind of mental dilemma for those "post-teenage" people. This kind of people from their twenties to their thirties has changed from a kind of ignorant children under the care of parents to adults facing the pressure of life independently, and even into older youths who cannot find a lover, or change Being a husband or wife, and finally becoming a father or mother whose children are the full focus of life, the role change in this process may be the most intense and frequent in life. The pressure and discomfort are certainly huge, but this is again It is usually overlooked, this group can't even find any spiritual comfort and guidance.
Of course, you can choose to refuse any change. You can try to continue to maintain a carefree child attitude like Poppy, but this is obviously extremely difficult. When it comes to the "Thirty Rise", it has a strong symbolic meaning. Before and after the node, the psychological barrier is easily lost under the pressure of physiological changes and the pressure of the general environment. The kind of "carefree" that attempts to stick to it may also be quickly lost.
It's like the bicycle with Poppy wandering around at the beginning of the film, and it was stolen all at once. Although Poppy was able to happily let go: "I haven't had time to say goodbye to it." But she lost her means of transportation, so she had to learn to drive a car. In essence, this is a tonal symbol set by director Mike Lee-the bicycle she lost that can take her freely around is a symbol of a source of simple happiness, when the bicycle is Steal away, her youthful joy will eventually be lost.
This may also be a symbol of every "post-teenage" people. Because on the road of life, timetables and task lists have already been set, you must complete the appropriate tasks at the appropriate age, so you must abandon the original bicycle and jump on the one that you don’t know how to drive. You must learn to drive a car, and start your right path on the "bright road" of life at a high speed. Of course, you can no longer wander aimlessly in the streets and alleys, the scenery on the bicycle and the unrestrainedness, you must also say goodbye.
In the process of saying goodbye, the most painful thing is thinking about it. This seems to be unthinkable, but it is always thoughtful:
"The education system will work like this: I will give you a worldview. If you obey and confirm my worldview, you will pass your exam, and then reach a higher and higher place, and then you will become a policeman, local official, lawyer, general, politician, and then you will be happy and successful. But if you meditate yourself, if you think beyond a small space, you will be distressed and fail..." Poppy's driving instructor Scott thought, and then became a violent cynic.
"Then where did you go tonight? An eternal question, where are we going? Where are we going? What is the meaning of life? I went to the moon, and then came back." Poppy thought but couldn't find the answer. , Can only avoid laughing.
Author: Hu Weidong
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