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Love Sally, Love Eddie,..don't love movie.


I love sally hawkins (just saw Maudi, fantastic!! )and I admire the other actor very much, i've seen him in other stuff, but I HATED this movie, but only because I didn't like poppy very much.. She just wouldn't shut up, she had to notice that her nature was angering scott more and more but she did nothing but stoke the fire. Scott may be a conspiracy nut and has some problems but he was nowhere near the danger on the road that poppy was almost all of the time. she covered her eyes once and took her hands off the wheel, and SHE wouldn't let HIM have the keys..?? Her happy go lucky nature isn't the product of wisdom on her part, she's just a vacuous loon, she took the keys away from scott not because she thought he was dangerous but because she didn't understand his anger, never angry herself. It bothered me that so many people love this movie because they think they see a poppy philosophy, and there isn't one, she was just born that way, and if everyone was the same it would be a horrible disease . I suppose the writers thought that a naturally born happy go lucky person made the persons nature more pure and beautiful, but its just a form of stupidity...if only they had given her layers and her nature was a life long hard built one based on experience and learning, but no, ..there just wasn't any wisdom to her, she amused herself and helped no-one. I didn't like how Scotts anger was a form of derangement (anger is perfectly normal and natural) and Poppys happiness was depicted as a pure natural state...why couldn't it have been a form of derangement too?? all they had to do was film a scene where she runs over a small child while driving and we all would have been on Scotts side. She may have inspired a lot of people to be like her, but she probably created just as many scotts without ever being aware of it.

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I don't agree. I find the character a bit irritating but I think there are depths we only see hints of. Perhaps the most revealing line is when her flatmate Zoe, perhaps the person who knows her best, says she cannot make everyone happy - which I think she I clearly trying to do. In a way you could argue that she takes responsibility for everyone else's happiness whilst apparently being totally irresponsible about herself - or at least refusing to behave like a 'grown up'.

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