search for "Half Nelson", you can easily find on Google that it is actually a professional term for wrestling. It refers to the half-choke movement of the opponent's back with an arm through the armpit and the back of the neck. You can also find that it is actually It's a song by Miles Davis, which is used as the title of the film. I think the former description is more appropriate. Director Ryan Fleck said: "This is a stalemate in wrestling, but you can escape, although it requires skill. It's just a metaphor about struggle." It refers to the situation of the protagonist Dan in the film.
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Frankly speaking, this is not a very pleasant visual enjoyment. The shaking of the handheld camera, shooting in the distance, the empty still life, and finally the soundtrack of the peaceful and surging emotions on the surface of the Broken Social Scene is undoubtedly the last straw that crushes the camel. .
All normal is uncomfortable: Dn, a history teacher who gives students a positive strength in the classroom, is privately depressed and a drug addict, and Drey, a thirteen-year-old black female student, has a face that does not meet the age of maturity. On the contrary, it is selling drugs, Drey's brother in jail, and the mother who is busy at work and has no time to take care of his daughter. These people who can be seen everywhere seem to me to be normal people who I encounter on the road.
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White male teachers, black female students. She observes him, gets close to him, and treats him as a friend. She knows exactly how drugs will end up in the end. She asks him like a friend, what does it make you feel? The relationship of friends collapsed.
Opposing relationships everywhere. The teacher who was passionately and passionately telling the students the history in the class the previous moment lingered in the sensual place to find the taste of one-night stand. The white teacher who was cheering for the students on the basketball court the moment before needed the rescue of the black female students because of drugs lying on the floor of the public toilet. A moment ago, black female students were prevented from getting too close with drug dealers, but the next moment they were buying drugs on the street. At the first moment, I warned the drug-trafficking drug tip to keep a distance from my student, and the next moment it was the client of the student who sold drugs.
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It's like a tug of war. When he deviated a little bit, someone/thing/thing would always pull him back and push him back into the abyss with a backhand. The call from his ex-girlfriend gave him a new hope for the resurgence of old relationships, but it brought a problem that he never faced squarely, and his life was decadent. Such as their conversation in the park:
Dan: "Some people change. Some people actually change.",
ex-girlfriend: "l know."
Dan: "No way.l'm still an asshole."
ex-girlfriend: "You 're not an asshole. You're just a big baby."
Dan: "l'm a big asshole baby."
One error is accompanied by another error. Lost, he relied on drugs again to double his frustration and aggravated his frustration. His life was chaotic. His cat left him. During class, everyone was distracted and talked about behind his back. Tired and exhausted, returning to his parents' home to have dinner with him was no comfort. He was peaceful on the surface, but he was stuck in the mud and got up without any effort. The sticking between mistakes and mistakes is drugs.
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The turbulence under the sea is such an unintended climax in the film, you can't catch it. At the end of the film, a new history teacher comes on stage, and the relationship between the white male teacher and the black female student is officially dismissed. She was selling drugs to him the night before, and the next moment she appeared in an empty hotel and found him who had experienced a party that was described as abusive, surrounded by sheets. In the last scene, he was neatly dressed, and he radiantly occupied the sofa with her, chatting and laughing relaxedly. The sound in his ear is what he said: "Second chances are rare, man. You ought to take better advantage of them. The sun goes up and then it comes down, but everytime that happens what do you get? You get a new day.”
And, at this time, my painful tears that lasted for more than a hundred minutes finally came to an end.
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