I watched Happy-Go-Lucky this morning. What a turnaround, huh?
It made a good breakfast movie because there's a lot in it.
Like, is this woman totally daft? (british slang, right?)
Is this woman totally needy and desperate for attention and that's why she's so annoying to everyone? Gosh, she was so annoying! She kind of drove me crazy (haha pun) in the driving lessons, like was she there to learn to drive or was she there to make silly jokes that the stalker-racist-instructor would get mad about?
Is she trying to show the world niceness is it and she's strong enough to set an example even though people are crappy/creepy sometimes?
To be honest I hated the character (even though she looks like pj harvey, kind of, and dressed cute in a funny way) and the movie for the first 45 mins, with the high point of hatred being the after-club-drunk-girl-circle. So gross! Am I a misogynist? Did Mike Leigh mean for that to be awful?
At some point, I started liking the movie. Maybe it was the roommates talking about books and making masks out of paper bags and talking about being teachers. That was neat. Then I felt like, oh this woman is 30 but people think she's younger because she hasn't had her card punched with marriage, kids, mortages etc (oh! that scene at her sister's house was pretty great, i love the roommate and the littlest sister and her speech about loving all the parts of her life. i really liked the part where she said it's hard sometimes but that's life or something, then I realized she's not the idiot she seemed in the first scene), she likes to go out and have a fresh one or get silly but she's dedicated to her job, she might be annoying but she's just trying to be nice. So then I stopped hating it. I started really liking it.
Then the stuff with the abused child and the finale with the driving instructor, she really tried with people and ignored the bad in favor of the good or whatever she could appeal to. So, I liked it even though it was frustrating but overall it was a good start to my day.
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you're just the best ever! i also thought she was annoying and, like, why does she have to talk ALL THE TIME? but, she got better.
ReplyDeletenot so daft after all.