There are people in this world who do not believe in those sacred existences like me, or like me, can never be shrouded in holy light, and only in their works can life be truly restored to life itself. And "Half Nelson" is such an independent film that allows you to touch the truth of life in a gray way, from the Sundance Film Festival. There is no person named Nelson in the movie. Half Nelson originally came from a song by Miles Davis, and the original meaning of the word refers to a wrestling action. Director Ryan Fleck said: "This is a stalemate in wrestling, but you can escape, although it requires skill. It is just a metaphor about struggle."
The struggle of life was fully interpreted by Ryan Goslin, and his handsomeness concealed his loss. In the eyes of loss, his fragility is behind his vigorous spirits. Behind the old system, he is a middle school teacher who wins the hearts and minds of the students. In the face of the pressure and darkness of life, he is again indulged in The addict looking for relief in drugs. The barely maintained double life always inevitably collapses, and the appearance of female students at this time is like setting a savior, and a redemption operation is about to start. But the film is outstanding because Dan and Drey did not enter each other’s lives as expected. They always kept such a strange distance. They struggled in their own difficulties and faced each other. They had no strength and ability to be a savior. .
I remember when Dan taught dialectics to his students, life is not a circle like a circle, but a spiral. Every day looks like a repetition of the previous day, but every day is different. From a plane point of view, a spiral is just a number of overlapping circles, but in the third dimension, it has a displacement on the Z axis, which is different from day to day. There is nothing difficult to understand for us who have been nurtured and grown up by materialist dialectics, but when do we implement these truths in our lives. Just like Dan, he knows a lot, he knows a lot, but in his own life and love, how can he have a way not to mess up everything. The truth is that we always pray and expect that there will be someone to save ourselves. Sadly, in this world, no one can save anyone, and no one will be whose Wonderwall.
PS: This movie fully implements the spirit of independence. It uses a DV camera similar to Dogma 95. The lens often shakes very badly. Please skip it automatically for sensitive students.
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