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[ATTENTION: This review reveals content of the movie.]
After reading the horrid reviews here and seeing that most of the professional film critics in this world seemed to LOVE this movie, plus the fact that it is a Mike Leigh movie, all had me intrigued. I was not disappointed. I don't think most viewers got this film, it's not a typical Hollywood film by any stretch of the imagination. What it is, is a very, very wise film on the power of projecting our feelings and issues on to other people. Poppy is indeed happy-go-lucky, she's 30, an elementary school teacher in North London, no investments, no real estate, no boyfriend, no savings. Yet, instead, she fully lives and inhabits each moment of her life, she loves her friends, she loves her messy apartment, she accepts each day as it comes, whether that means having fun with your friends at a London dance club, jumping on trampolines or taking flamenco lessons. She's happy and her joy comes from somewhere inside of her and it's authentic. She doesn't worry about tomorrow because all she has is today. Watching the people around her, like her obnoxious married and pregnant sister, her sourpuss driving instructor and even her exasperated friends, you realize that they are the ones with problems, projecting their own issues on to Poppy, that there are people in this world who don't want you to be happy because they'd prefer to see you as miserable as they are. So if you want to watch this happen, then by all means go see this movie. The ending is absolutely brilliant.
9/10
18.11.2008 -
fairdose@ - age: 36-49
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