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Film Review: Half Nelson
Half Nelson is a film in the same vein as such independent films as Boys Don’t Cry and Monster’s Ball. It is an unflinching look as life in all it’s messed up glory with little in the way of Hollywood contrivances.
Screenwriters Ryan Fleck (who also directs) and Anna Boden craft a complex story of teacher Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling), an unconventional history teacher who is at odds with his superiors as he bucks the system by not sticking to the established syllabus of the school. This allows Dunne to connect with his students who are mostly African American and Hispanics. Although he sees the effect his lectures have on his students he is disillusioned since he knows little of it affects them outside of class. As a way to cope with the life that he never pictured himself having, Dunne turns to drugs, which he does at school off the clock. After one of these trying days as a teacher he decides to alleviate the stress by getting high in the female restroom until he is caught by one of his more promising students Drey (Shareeka Epps), herself an outsider since she’s had to learn to fend for herself in a house with an over worked mother she hardly ever sees, among other daily problems of life. What follows is the story of two wounded people as they try to cope with the lives they have been dealt.
Dunne and Drey find themselves in an unconventional relationship of teacher and student as they discover they are both people with wounded lives yet need to find a way a function on their own in a sometimes harsh and cruel world. Dunne soon finds himself trying to save Drey but how can she expect him to save her when he can’t even save himself?
Fleck does a good job bringing humanity from Gosling and Epps and humanizing a character whom at first glance most parents wouldn’t want teaching their children. There is a fine line that Fleck exposes himself to but he manages to straddle the fence nicely creating a complex and altogether different sort of inspirational study that can be put right up there next to Lean On Me, Stand And Deliver, Good Will Hunting, and Dead Poets Society.
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