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The Spirit of the Poppy: Directed by Frederick A. Thomson. With Edward MacKay, Edith Luckett, Anna Rose, William R. Dunn. A psychological study of the effects of drug addiction on humanity.
- Frederick A. Thomson
- 1914-11-23
- Drama
- Edward MacKay, Edith Luckett, Anna Rose
- Death and Dreams
- Corn Poppy and Opium Poppy
- ‘In Flanders Fields’
- Moina Michael’s Mission
- The British Legion
The story of the Remembrance Poppy is one of the strangest and most compelling of the 20th century. It is tragic and uplifting, deadly and comforting, intimately personal yet international in spirit. The poppy is an ancient symbol, yet also a modern icon of war and sacrifice. It is an ambiguous touchstone in a dangerous world. It collides with the ...
The scarlet corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) and purple-white opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) reveal their intimacy through a long relationship with war, not least because the ‘long sleep’ of death was so easily associated with opium narcosis, and because of the corn poppy’s ubiquity on the freshly churned fields of war. After the Battle of Waterloo, t...
It was the Canadian soldier-surgeon John McCrae who crystallised these feelings in his 1915 poem ‘In Flanders Fields’. Crouching at the entrance to his dugout, just outside Ypres in Belgian Flanders, McCrae gazed on the small battlefield cemetery where he had just buried a close friend. From his grief he conjured a poem, immortalising the poppy in ...
Moina chanced on McCrae’s poem in a magazine, and imagined the voices of the dead clamouring for her to convert the scarlet flower into a sacred emblem of their sacrifice. She never married, and regarded the poppy as her ‘spirit child’, pledging her soul, she said, to ‘that crimson cup flower of Flanders, the red Poppy which caught the sacrificial ...
Nothing daunted, Anna Guérin sealed the poppy’s international success by travelling to Canada, and her representatives to Australia and New Zealand, all of which adopted the commemorative flower. She visited London, too, where she convinced the British Legion to embrace the poppy. This victory was short-lived, however, as the Legion soon began maki...
27. Mai 2021 · Poppy: Directed by Linda Niccol. With Seb Hunter, Jonty Austin, Ari Boyland, Brad Harding. A young woman with Down syndrome refuses to be defined by disability and takes control of her own life. Her ambition to become a motor mechanic.
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18. Nov. 2022 · When we meet Poppy (Libby Hunsdale), her parents have been dead for some years. She lives with her brother Dave (Ari Boyland), who is racked with guilt because he was driving the car when the accident happened, and who deals with it by drinking, trying to keep the family’s car mechanic business going (despite being patently out of ...
Directed by Linda Niccol. She’ll steal your heart. A young woman with Down Syndrome begins a journey chases her dream of becoming a mechanic, despite being held back by the person she trusts the most. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases. Libby Hunsdale Ari Boyland Seb Hunter. 100 mins More at IMDb TMDb. Sign in to log, rate or review. Share.
Poppy Simpson refuses to be defined by Down syndrome and is determined to take charge of her own life. She dreams of becoming a mechanic and helping her older brother with their inherited auto...
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- Comedy, Drama
