Happy-Go-Lucky

My son and I watched this mostly in silence. After it had finished we could only manage a frown and..Mmmmm. It seems to try and get a laugh out of a female who is very dim or has learning difficulties. NOT impressed. ONE TO MISS

The truth of the human condition in all it glorious imperfection. I know these people, I have met them and loved them and Mike Lee's genius pays tribute to them, the unsung heroes of our life. ♡

This style of film making won't be for everyone. The story is as light as air, yet it stayed with me for several days after watching. It is not so much about the situations, but about how the film's characters behave in those situations. It is the characters, through the fine work of the actors that embody them, that carry this film. Although exaggerated, sometimes grotesquely, they seem so believable. The air-head happy-go-lucky lead character that is easy to sneer at is revealed as a complex and beautiful person in a hard-edged world. I feel like I know people like this in real life, and maybe I have also sneered at them. So does that make me the guy in the bookshop, or (God help me) the driving instructor? This film made me re-address how I look at the world and the people in it. Perhaps that's why I couldn't shake it for so long after viewing. No car chases, no fighting robots, no CGI - but acting, and film making, and something else I can't quite put into words. A really moving experience.