One of the most well-known contemporary British film directors, Mike Lee’s light and shadow works can always capture the details of ordinary people’s lives, and his calm and plain realistic style can often It triggers a variety of perceptions, and inadvertently brews a trace of inexplicable emotion, which makes the audience involuntarily re-examine the triviality and habit of life from different angles and experiences. This "Carefree", which was released in early 2008, continues its previous simple and calm style, but is also embellished with a considerable comedy factor, which adds to and changes another movie-viewing taste-smiling and sorrow at the same time. And then cherish it more and more.
The people in Mike Lee’s light and shadows are more or less narcissistic, and some even talk like babbles. Poppy (played by Sally Hawkins) in this film also has this rudimentary form. This man living in North London A 30-year-old girl, a low-grade teacher in elementary school, is enthusiastic and optimistic by nature, and loves to talk to friends. At first glance, she is a bit silly. She seems to be heartless and very nervous. She can be so enthusiastic that she ignores the white eyes of the CD clerk, and kindly. Say hello to find a topic, she can be so optimistic that she found out that the bike was stolen and said to herself: "I'm not ready to say goodbye to you!" She can also be so troubled to guess that Coach Flamongo had a sad relationship. At the same time, she is easy Distracted, often distracted by the small things and small details in front of her, which makes her driving instructor very crazy. In addition, she has very thick lines and occasionally hurts the feelings of others without knowing it.
Poppy, who looks confused, actually has her own life philosophy. She lives a colorful life happily every day. Work and leisure are arranged properly. She has a lot of friends with a good personality. She also likes the current state of life and does not care about being married. The sisters who were pregnant and living a stable life were dissatisfied and preached to her wasting her youth. The kind-hearted woman also yearned for love, and caring for a violent student due to the dark side of the family made her encounter an unexpected love in the next helping job...
At the beginning of the film, I may be puzzled by Poppy's "laughter addiction". After watching it all the way, I will thank the director for using the length of such a film to slow down the simple and happy life of an ordinary woman. Compared with Poppy's purely happy "heartlessness", the anxious driving instructor and the pregnant woman with great mood swings seem so strange. Maybe Poppy is a "freak" in the eyes of busy people, but she is not in a good state of mind. It will be changed by the eyes of the outside world and others. On the contrary, her smile, her enthusiasm, and her attitude towards life are very contagious, and may have a subtle relaxation effect on those nervous people.
When watching a movie, someone who is always racing against time may be impatient with the slowness and calmness of the plot, but someone with a heart will definitely be able to gradually taste the natural taste of what is pretending to be like a spring, this kind of indifference that resembles prose Describe, there will be an aftertaste after watching the movie. Usually, Mike Lee’s works are very expressive, and they often provide considerable space for the creation of characters (5 films directed by him have dedicated 3 actresses and 2 actresses to the 3 major European film festivals), Sa Leigh Hawkins won this year's Berlin film queen for his role as Poppy. He has seen her show off her delicate and euphemistic acting style in the adaptation of Austin's famous book "Persuasion". Before she came into contact with this film, it might be difficult to imagine how she was. Poppy is an optimist with thick lines. However, she presents an ordinary life and a cute woman so freely and freely. All the scenes and facial expressions of Poppy in the film are so kind and gentle, which is worthy of careful attention. Watch.
When Poppy unexpectedly caused the driving instructor to be passionate, and then the anxious man became emotionally out of control when he saw Poppy's boyfriend, Poppy bravely pulled out the car key, because he cared about his driving safety, he still heard her When he smiled and said "I just want to make you happy", I couldn't help feeling a trace of pity and sorrow in my heart. After all, in reality, most people with innocent smiles like Poppy have gradually lost their original intention of joy under the pressure and haze of reality, and they have made a worldly compromise to the unwritten but ubiquitous social survival laws. At the end of the film, when I saw Happy Poppy on the boating lake, I suddenly had the idea to go boating with my friends in Beihai or the Summer Palace in autumn, the most beautiful season in Beijing.
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