At night, you are an incurable addict. In a smoky room, at a crazy sex party, white powder is the only consolation that this world can bring you. The warmth of the family is very little to you, you are insecure, and even the feeling that love gives you is so unreal. The city is too big, you hide in your own hut and cry, you are even as weak as a child. You arm others with theories in the book, but you are confounded by your bloody life.
You are Dan.
You have the same hairstyle that many black kids have. You have thick lips and a naturally dark face. You love sports and basketball. You are listening to your teacher telling about life at school, and you are looking forward to having a cool adolescence. You are still looking forward to friendship, it is best to have a little more love. You even dress up like a big girl to make you look more mature and feminine.
You have an older brother who went to jail for drug trafficking, you have a friend who asks you to help with drug trafficking, and you have a drug teacher. You are on the road of growth, and you are just beginning to feel the complexity and sinisterness of the adult world.
You are Drey.
In a crazy sex party, someone called to buy drugs. So Dan and Drey met. At this time, the relationship between them is no longer between students and teachers. One of them is a drug addict who makes a phone call to buy drugs. At this moment, they pay the money and deliver the goods. There is no too much language, no textbooks, no philosophy of life, no correct values, no materialism and idealism. Everything is simple, clear, clear and reasonable. Each of them takes what they need. Then, frustration and frustration of powerlessness flooded into their hearts.
Torn, desperate.
This is almost the only and final climax of this movie called "Half Nelson". When the shaking camera stumbled to tell the story, I saw two helpless people in the rough picture truly copying their lives. If the world cannot be more cruel and life cannot be more real, then the world is not the world, and life is not life. "How do you feel about sucking that stuff?" Drey asked Dan once. It might be terrible, but Dan couldn't answer. Teacher, an embodiment of morality, synonymous with justice and truth. Here in Dan, it was completely ruined. Talking loudly during the day, and sad at night alone. He is a failed educator. In the face of a heavy body, he could not become a god. Those false theories are nowhere near as good as a bag of white powder that can make him feel his existence more truly. Did the theory go wrong or he had the problem himself? The city is too big to answer.
The ending is of course bright, warm, and touching. But I would rather believe that Dan who has not reformed and Drey who has been selling drugs are more real. They are just ordinary people, choosing their own way of life. In the face of an unknown tomorrow, who is right and who is wrong. No one provided them with answers. Just as there are many roads, but they always complain about not being able to find the right direction.
The real awakening is the inner awakening. Only when you are completely bored can you give up resolutely. Dan and Drey will always, always and always live in contradictions, their contradictions can never be easily resolved. Reality is always at the forefront of theories. When those gray theories meet the brightest life, even the wisest philosophers are resolutely unable to untie the tightest knot in everyone's heart.
Half Nelson, it doesn't matter whether it is a JAZZ or a wrestling action. We are only half Nelson. As for where the remaining half is, no one knows better than you.
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