Needing a movie to catch, my friends and I ended up catching “Happy Go Lucky” directed by Michael Leigh. The story of a very cheery and peppy 30 year old gal named Poppy played by Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins who is a single elementary school teacher. She loves with her room mate of 10 years who she adores. She enjoying life with her friends and family and always has wonderful optimism.

The movie starts out with her having her bike stolen. No biggie, she signs up to take driving lessons. Well her driving instructor is a complete 180 opposite from her. In addition, she encounters challenges that could change  her positive outlook from her fiery flamenco instructor, a young bully in her class, bitter pregnant younger sister  in addition to her cranky and cynical driving instructor. Still she weathers these challenges well.

Definitely a fun movie and Sally Hawkins just shines! I did find her “peppiness” a bit much at times. Could a person be really this way? If there is, bless their soul I must say.

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I really want to see the Box Office leader in South Korea right now Frozen Flower 쌍화점Ssanghwajeom. This movie made some waves with its racy bedroom scenes and the forbidden love/attraction between two male characters (King)  Ju Ji Mo 주진모 and  (Hong Lim) Jo In Sung 조인성.  Throw in (Queen)Song Ji Hyo 송지효 there is a love triangle. I know that Lee Junki 이준기catapulted to stardom to his roll and “on screen kiss” with the King. (In reality, not a big deal, but I guess in South Korea it was a few years back.) Seems like Korean audiences are going to the theaters to see this Period Movie! I cannot wait to watch this film!

SYNOPSIS (credit: wikipedia)

In the end of Goryeo era politically manipulated by the Yuan Dynasty, the ambitious King of the Goryeo Dynasty organizes Kunryongwe. Hong Lim, the commander of Kunryongwe, captivates the King of Goryeo, and the Queen keeps her eyes on the relationship between Hong Lim and the King with a reluctant view. Meanwhile, the bilateral relation between Goryeo and the Yuan gets worse as Yuan demands to install the cousin of the King in the Crown Prince of Goryeo with ascribing it to no son the King has. The King refuses it resolutely, so the high-ranking officials of Goryeo, who are in submission to Yuan, are discontented with the king. One day, the King gives Hong Lim a covert yet unobjectionable order to sleep with the Queen instead of himself to protect the independence of Goryeo from the Yuan by making a son, the successor to Goryeo throne

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