HAPPY-GO-LUCKY is the antithesis of SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK.  Where Caden’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman) day-to-day in SYNECDOCHE is a long, painful death march toward life’s final credits; In HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, Poppy (Sally Hawkins) refuses to succumb.  Where Charlie Kaufman has written a character that is depression personified, therefore he must be intellectually stealth; Mike Leigh presents a character in Poppy who is a happy warrior, in constant motion against life’s daily assault, therefore must be living in ignorant bliss; but no, Mike Leigh writes a smart, street-wise character, who simply refuses to let the bastards get her down.