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[Machine Translation] He stole a bouquet of flowers for me. Joy, a woman who lives on the edge between dreams and reality, asks a question to those of us who live in this time. Ken Loach, a two-time Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes International Film Festival, makes his memorable feature film debut, and even though he is over 80 years old, he continues to release new works. He has dealt with social issues such as social inequality, poverty, and racism, and portrayed the daily lives of the working class and sometimes third-world immigrants with thorough realism. The characteristics of his films, such as professional and amateur casting, location shooting, bold omission of scenes, and improvisation, are already evident in this, his first film. The warmth of the director's gaze, which quietly observes Joy, a woman who is torn between her dreams and reality as she tries to survive, continues to move us with an immortal radiance more than half a century later. Terence Stamp, who plays Dave, later won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for "The Collector" (63), in which he played a psycho killer, and later went on to star in "Priscilla" (94), "Star Wars: Episode I" (99), and many other films in the art world and Hollywood. He is a charismatic figure. In Steven Soderbergh's "The Man from England" (1999), in which Stamp starred more than 30 years after this film, he left behind the rare episode of "Like Stars in the Night Sky" used in the main character's reminiscences. Carol White, who played Joy, was cast in the film following Ken Loach's BBC-produced TV dramas "Up the junction" ('65) and "Cathy come home" ('66), for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In the film, Donovan, a rock legend who was friends with John and Paul of the Beatles, sings a gentle song about working-class life in London in the mid-1960s, enveloping the audience with his gentle voice. --Joy, born in a working-class neighborhood of London, marries Tom, a young man who makes a living as a thief, by chance, gets pregnant, and gives birth to a baby. Tom, however, is indifferent to the baby, and soon starts to raise his hand to her. One day, Tom is arrested and Joy is sent to her aunt's house. Then Dave, a friend of her husband's, comes to visit. She is eventually attracted to the kind Dave and they spend happy days together, but he is also arrested. Joy continues to write letters to Dave in prison, and tries her best to live with her young son Johnny...
Original Release Year: 1967
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