The struggle of life!

Joanie 2022-03-24 09:01:58

Half Nelson

Half Nelson

Dan is undoubtedly an idealist, and he even uses dialectics, contradictions, and even the Chinese theory of yin and yang to teach history to his students. He hated the scriptures of his colleagues, ignoring the civil rights movement that the principal had given him to talk about. He talks about the knowledge that he thinks students must understand, and his own understanding of history, so that students can recite some truths that are just but at the same time always tried to cover up by history. The scenes of the students standing on the podium reciting these histories are interspersed in the middle of the film, along with the video materials of the past. The unusually lonely scene has awakened the numb people. We should remember these people and those things buried in the vast history, so as to awaken our conscience that is about to be numb.
From this, it can be imagined that the young Dan Ding was a young man full of enthusiasm, with political ambitions, and hoped to make a difference. He wants to save the world. But now, all ideas can only be directed at these children who are still vague about the theory. How many of them can really understand the teachers who are dreaming on the podium? So, looking at Dan's eyes in class always makes me feel a little sad.

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  • Una 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    Nelson: Half of himself is redeemed by the other half, and his other half is presented by redeeming the schoolgirl. The first episode of the episode is beautiful, and ryan gosling's every move is so charming

  • Germaine 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    Got a new pair of glasses today. I watched this big boring movie that shakes the camera all the time.

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  • Dan: [after watching Mario Savio's speech about The Machine] What is this machine that he's walking about? It's keeping us down, what is it?

    Jamal: Like, robots and stuff, right?

    Dan: Umm... it could be robots. It could be robots, but let's say it's a metaphor. He's saying this machine is keeping you down. Now, what is that? What keeps us from being free? Ms. Drey?

    Drey: Prisons.

    Dan: Absolutely. Absolutely, prisons. OK? Prisons are definitely a part of it. What else?

    Terrence: White!

    Dan: White is definitely a part of it. The Man.

    Student: The school.

    Dan: The school, exactly. The whole-the whole education system is part of the machine. What else?

    Student: Aren't you the machine then?

    Dan: Oh, no, you didn't. What'd you say?

    Student: Aren't you the machine?

    Dan: You're saying I'm the machine?

    Student: Yeah, you're white. You're part of the school.

    Dan: Oh, yeah, I guess you've got a point. All right, so I'm part of the machine. But if I'm part of it, then so are you. You are, too. We all are. And this is the thing, remember? Everything is made with opposing force. We may be opposed to the machine, but we're still very much a part of it, right? I work for the government, the school, but I'm also very much opposed to a lot of its policies. You guys hate coming to school, right? Holler back if you heard me! You hate it, but you come anyway. Sometimes. Exactly.

  • Isabel: Are you a communist?

    Dan: What?

    Isabel: I was looking through your books. Che in Africa?

    Dan: So?

    Isabel: The Communist Manifesto?

    Dan: If I had a copy of Mein Kampf, would that make me a Nazi?

    Isabel: [Eating leftover dinner] You know, this is really good. Very tasty.

    Dan: You should try it warm.

    Isabel: Well, you don't have a copy of Mein Kampf, but if you did, then yes, I'd ask if you were a Nazi.

    Dan: Maybe I'm hiding it.

    Isabel: Why would you hide it?

    Dan: 'Cause it's just not cool to be a Nazi anymore, baby.

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