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It must have been for you to be so delighted with this overlong exercise in annoyance. Poppy is the nitrous-oxide version of a Catherine Tate character, and like you, when I first saw her, I wanted to slap her silly. Unlike you, my urge to do so became ever more intense.
Yes the final scene with the driving instructor is intense and moving. I guess. Because in the real world, no one would have continued with this psychotic racist homophobe crazy as their instructor, and no instructor would have accepted this suicidal freak girl as a student.
But please do explain the scene where she hangs out in a place guarantied to get a girl raped and runs into a down-and-out Brian Blessed. What was that about?
Throw Poppy in the middle of Darfur, and have her try to find the source of the ganjaweed horde's pain and foul mood as they take turns gang-raping 8-year olds.
You are in the Jungle, Poppy; the pristine, beatific, 1% richest people in the world part of it...but you're in the jungle nonetheless. Your immunity to the true nature of the world manifests itself as ignorant bliss...good for you, eh?
and also the description of Poppy sounds a lot like the main character in Fellini's "Notti di Cabiria" - a woman who is happy and joyous in life even in the darkest possible circumstances
...and "Happy Go Lucky" sounds like it's just as stimulating.
