Mike Leigh's HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
POPPY
Where are you going to sleep tonight?
TRAMP
In a bed.
POPPY
Oh?! Course you are! Silly me!
(She laughs. Then he looks at her very intensely. Pause.)
POPPY
(sensitively)
What?
(A charged, emotional moment. Then he goes to touch her
face, but POPPY can’t help flinching slightly, and he pulls his
hand away. She smiles gently. A moment of connection.)
TRAMP
You know?
(Pause. She does.)
POPPY
Yeah.
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(POPPY’s mobile rings. She takes it out of her bag, laughing in recognition.)
POPPY
Hello, you! Missing me already? That’s nice to hear. Nightmare.
Yeah. I’m still alive - just. Well...it’s a long story. I’m on a lake.
With Zoe. (Laughs.)Yeah. The bathroom flooded. Yeah. It’s alright
now. We found a boat.(Laughs.)You’re funny! (Laughs.) Yeah...
The camera has risen into the sky; white birds circle round the boat as we look down on it. It floats away. And POPPY keeps on laughing.
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Really really lovely. :] I love it when films have those tiny capsule moments in them that can stand alone and still be beautiful, and really hit you in the stomach. Happy-Go-Lucky was full of them. :] And it ends perfectly. :] And these past two days have been great too, and long in the good way. :]