In the piercing alarm clock, Dan was sitting on the floor by the foot of the sofa, his eyes were dull, and the rapid bell seemed to ring endlessly, but before the audience's patience was finally exhausted, he still got up from the long depression and turned off the alarm clock. , then ended the night and welcomed a new day of sobriety torture. Dan is not a teacher at all, but it seems that it is not so easy to conclude whether he is a qualified teacher or not. He opposed the scriptures required by the school, used dialectics to inspire students to think about the meaning and truth of history, and showed concern and love for students outside the classroom. But on the other hand, he lived an out-and-out depraved life, relying on drugs and alcohol anesthesia to spend the nights outside the classroom, which seemed to be incompatible with those smiles during the day. There is no character named Nelson in the film. It is said that the film is called Half. Nelson comes from a term in wrestling "Nelson suppression", which refers to being locked behind the neck by the opponent's hand through the armpit from behind. In the class, he and the students explained the process of history with an image: "What we are seeing now is the opposition of two forces, as long as the stronger one is stronger, it will slowly change in one direction, but once the other party becomes stronger, it will There will be a turning point." This can be seen as another interpretation of "Half Nelson". Dan seems to have been wrestling with clear but invisible difficulties, but in the process of slowly sinking into the mire, the appearance of student Drey seems to be a turning point in events. Previously, Dan had almost always shown a positive image in school that was different from his private life. The students didn't know what he looked like outside the classroom, but one day after meeting his girlfriend, he was caught by Drey in the locker room using drugs, and accidentally made each other walk in. each other's life. At the same time, the distinct positive and negative Dan also began to erode each other. He would throw away the cigarette butts and clean the room and prepare to start again. He would also suddenly collapse in the middle of the class, as if the two forces were fighting against each other. gradually become unstable. After learning Dan's secret by chance, Drey reconnects with Dan again by a coincidence. Dan's drug purchasers are friends of Drey's brother, and she sometimes works as a "courier" to deliver drugs to the dealer's door. Dan and Drey are a collection of opposing words: white and black, male and female, adult and juvenile, educator and educated, drug addict and drug dealer, fallen and redeemer. Dan himself is also an extremely divided and contradictory individual. He is committed to studying the dialectics of history and believes in the change of the day after tomorrow. In the bar, he talked to the woman he met by chance about his passionate career ideal: "What should I teach and help these students, if I can change one, I can change all of them." He hopes to change the fate of these black students through education, To prevent them from walking into those "destined" fates, however, teachers who wish to change the fate of others are powerless to change themselves. "Some people are changing, some people are changing." "Yes, but not me, I can't change because I'm still an asshole." When talking to his girlfriend who is about to marry someone else, he vetoes all changes possible. "You're not an asshole, you're just a big kid." This is what his girlfriend said to Dan. Dan and Drey's figures are opposites, but not a black-and-white one, mixed with a peculiar fusion. There seems to be a role inversion between the two, Dan still retains a childish side, while Drey has maturity beyond his years; on the other side In front of him, Dan has replaced Drey's absent father role, and is also the object of the girl's hazy affection. Drey's mirror make-up means that Dan has awakened her sense of femininity, and at the same time, the parallel shot of Dan and other women shows that they are in different worlds. Dan seems to be a dramatic character with too many contradictions, but many moments similar to modern people make it very real, the work enthusiasm suppressed by the boss and the rules, the empty decadent and unchanging life, and even the coping with parents It's the same as comforting: quietly listening to his mother teach him to keep in touch with his girlfriend, without telling them that his girlfriend is about to marry someone else; when asked "Are you happy", he answered "very happy" with an exaggerated expression , hiding all the burden of suffocation. The climax of the film occurs when Dan is shopping for drugs again and meets Drey, who is helping the drug dealer. A door separates the two, and all the contradictions are tit-for-tat, and they all witness the other person becoming the kind of person they don't want to see with their own eyes. Drey stood in the middle of the room full of drug addicts, and when he turned back to see Dan's sad eyes, he nodded lightly and raised the money in his hand, like a pity for Drey, and a lament for himself. However, the turnaround seemed to come suddenly. Dan didn't show up in class the next day, and a new teacher took his place. Drey came to his hotel room after school and they ate candy together and cleaned up the room. "Have you figured it out yet?" So Dan shaved off his beard and looked fresh. Start trying to tell jokes. Maybe this is not a victory. Like every time I made up my mind to live a good life, I did not start over with a clean room and a clean face, but this seems to be a turning point in history when it slowly slipped into the abyss. Life is long and sinking. The struggle with hope is still not over. The narrative pace of the film is slow, and the audience is not expected to explain the cause and effect of the story to the audience. It may be until the end of the film that we still cannot determine the source of Dan's self-indulgent depravity. Probably according to the teaching regulations of most places, Dan is an image that challenges values. Maybe we can see the gap between his ideals and reality in his work, and his emotional frustration, but the film seems to deliberately downplay all this, and it seems that it is not enough to cause the collapse. However, whether physical or psychological, the pain threshold is an individual thing, and life seems to be unreasonable. We need sufficient reasons to predict whether an event will happen or not, but once it happens, there is no need for any reason. Dan teaches his students about the Civil Rights Movement, and he tries to get them to understand that the development of history is driven by contradictions and oppositions. In one class, he A video of a civil rights activist's speech was shown calling for a rallying of individuals against the state apparatus. Some students asked, aren't you a state machine? He replied, yes, so do you. Schools, teachers, and students, which are part of the state machine, study and study the "state machine" together. It will inevitably make people feel a kind of confusion of "being in this mountain". However, due to their own limitations, no one can escape from society. Look at history outside of history. Dan and his parents lived in a time of political movements, ideological trends and even wars. When chatting with Dan, my mother said, "When your father and I were young, we both thought we could change the world." In the course of history, there have been rising figures, but more generations of young people have become "cannon fodder." ". We can also guess whether the film also has some deeper political and life-level significance, expressing the helplessness and accusation of the powerlessness of individuals in the era. Almost the entire film was shot with a handheld camera. All fixed shots were shaking uncomfortably, and many transitions were replaced by rapid panning instead of hard cuts, as if to simulate the shifting of the human eye, making the movie scene more and more difficult. reality. In the climax segment, the camera swayed across everyone's face, as if it had become a person waiting for anesthesia to watch life in pain. As Dan wobbles at the door, one can't help but think of a poem that fits almost perfectly: dragging himself through the black alleys at dawn in search of a deadly dose. In the fight, he was held by his opponent with a half-Nelson behind his back, and he could escape with some skills, but it was more difficult in life. A lot of times we don't know what we're fighting against, and the punch that's been accumulating for a long time is silently trapped in a ball of cotton. But contradictions drive history, and contradictions are also hope. Looking at it from another angle, Dan, who has always believed that he can’t change, still believes that students can be changed. The truth is that Drey was really ideologically impacted by his education, and tried to free him. In the process of falling, grab his hand from this line of cracks. Hope that never seems to exist and never fades is probably the paradox of happiness unique to human beings. Researching and studying the "state machine" will inevitably make people feel a kind of confusion of "being in this mountain". However, due to their own limitations, no one can look beyond society and history to see history. Dan and his parents lived in a time of political movements, ideological trends and even wars. When chatting with Dan, my mother said, "When your father and I were young, we both thought we could change the world." In the course of history, there have been rising figures, but more generations of young people have become "cannon fodder." ". We can also guess whether the film also has some deeper political and life-level significance, expressing the helplessness and accusation of the powerlessness of individuals in the era. Almost the entire film was shot with a handheld camera. All fixed shots were shaking uncomfortably, and many transitions were replaced by rapid panning instead of hard cuts, as if to simulate the shifting of the human eye, making the movie scene more and more difficult. reality. In the climax segment, the camera swayed across everyone's face, as if it had become a person waiting for anesthesia to watch life in pain. As Dan wobbles at the door, one can't help but think of a poem that fits almost perfectly: dragging himself through the black alleys at dawn in search of a deadly dose. In the fight, he was held by his opponent with a half-Nelson behind his back, and he could escape with some skills, but it was more difficult in life. A lot of times we don't know what we're fighting against, and the punch that's been accumulating for a long time is silently trapped in a ball of cotton. But contradictions drive history, and contradictions are also hope. Looking at it from another angle, Dan, who has always believed that he can't change, still believes that students can be changed. The truth is that Drey was really ideologically impacted by his education, and tried to free him. In the process of falling, grab his hand from this line of cracks. Hope that never seems to exist and never fades is probably the paradox of happiness unique to human beings. Researching and studying the "state machine" will inevitably make people feel a kind of confusion of "being in this mountain". However, due to their own limitations, no one can look beyond society and history to see history. Dan and his parents lived in a time of political movements, ideological trends and even wars. When chatting with Dan, my mother said, "When your father and I were young, we both thought we could change the world." In the course of history, there have been rising figures, but more generations of young people have become "cannon fodder." ". We can also guess whether the film also has some deeper political and life-level significance, expressing the helplessness and accusation of the powerlessness of individuals in the era. Almost the entire film was shot with a handheld camera. All fixed shots were shaking uncomfortably, and many transitions were replaced by rapid panning instead of hard cuts, as if to simulate the shifting of the human eye, making the movie scene more and more difficult. reality. In the climax segment, the camera swayed across everyone's face, as if it had become a person waiting for anesthesia to watch life in pain. As Dan wobbles at the door, one can't help but think of a poem that fits almost perfectly: dragging himself through the black alleys at dawn in search of a deadly dose. In the fight, he was held by his opponent with a half-Nelson behind his back, and he could escape with some skills, but it was more difficult in life. A lot of times we don't know what we're fighting against, and the punch that's been accumulating for a long time is silently trapped in a ball of cotton. But contradictions drive history, and contradictions are also hope. Looking at it from another angle, Dan, who has always believed that he can’t change, still believes that students can be changed. The truth is that Drey was really ideologically impacted by his education, and tried to free him. In the process of falling, grab his hand from this line of cracks. Hope that never seems to exist and never fades is probably the paradox of happiness unique to human beings. People watch life painfully on the sidelines. As Dan wobbles at the door, one can't help but think of a poem that fits almost perfectly: dragging himself through the black alleys at dawn in search of a deadly dose. In the fight, he was held by his opponent with a half-Nelson behind his back, and he could escape with some skills, but it was more difficult in life. A lot of times we don't know what we're fighting against, and the punch that's been accumulating for a long time is silently trapped in a ball of cotton. But contradictions drive history, and contradictions are also hope. Looking at it from another angle, Dan, who has always believed that he can't change, still believes that students can be changed. The truth is that Drey was really ideologically impacted by his education, and tried to free him. In the process of falling, grab his hand from this line of cracks. Hope that never seems to exist and never fades is probably the paradox of happiness unique to human beings. People watch life painfully on the sidelines. As Dan wobbles at the door, one can't help but think of a poem that fits almost perfectly: dragging himself through the black alleys at dawn in search of a deadly dose. In the fight, he was held by his opponent with a half-Nelson behind his back, and he could escape with some skills, but it was more difficult in life. A lot of times we don't know what we're fighting against, and the punch that's been accumulating for a long time is silently trapped in a ball of cotton. But contradictions drive history, and contradictions are also hope. Looking at it from another angle, Dan, who has always believed that he can't change, still believes that students can be changed. The truth is that Drey was really ideologically impacted by his education, and tried to free him. In the process of falling, grab his hand from this line of cracks. Hope that never seems to exist and never fades is probably the paradox of happiness unique to human beings.
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