Half Nelson an American Drama Film
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Half Nelson an American Drama Film
Half Nelson an American drama film was released in 2006. The director Ryan Gosling did a great job at portraying an inner city high school teacher, Dan with a serious drug problem who forms a friendship with one of his students Drey. When I read the article I couldn't visualize the characters so after watching the movie I had much better understanding and could put it all together.
I felt that the shooting wasn't done by a professional cameraman. The shots were too close up and came across as unprofessional. It made me feel that I was so involved that I could hear every breath Dan was taking and I felt as it I was right there in that movie. It felt as if someone took a camcorder and went to an inner city to record everything that was happening. The cameraman was constantly zooming onto the person very closely and it was making me feel very tense throughout the whole movie as I felt I was there and everything was really happening. It was
Half Nelson an American drama film was released in 2006. The director Ryan Gosling did a great job at portraying an inner city high school teacher, Dan with a serious drug problem who forms a friendship with one of his students Drey. When I read the article I couldn't visualize the characters so after watching the movie I had much better understanding and could put it all together.
I felt that the shooting wasn't done by a professional cameraman. The shots were too close up and came across as unprofessional. It made me feel that I was so involved that I could hear every breath Dan was taking and I felt as it I was right there in that movie. It felt as if someone took a camcorder and went to an inner city to record everything that was happening. The cameraman was constantly zooming onto the person very closely and it was making me feel very tense throughout the whole movie as I felt I was there and everything was really happening. It was recording someone's life right in front of my eyes and I was watching their day as it happens.
The music sounded weird, it was loud sometimes and then when something was about to happen it got louder. Listening to that music made me feel dizzy. If I heard that kind of stoned music from someone's house I would not go there because it sends the danger message image to my brain. I can only imagine the kind of people who would listen that kind of music are drug addicts. The music made me feel dizzy. It wasn't really music it was more of unspoken words mingled together making a weird, chaotic, disturbing sounds that people who are stoned would listen to.
The film made me feel very sad. It's heartbreaking and bracing in a way that only well-made film can make you feel. I got the feeling that it was their real life and things were really happening to them while we were watching their life and problems they were going through. I realized that I was holding my breath through the whole movie and worrying and wondering how it's going to end. It made me feel that Dan was just sleepwalking through his days, most of the time being stoned and not knowing what's happening around. He was in his own world and unaware of things or his surroundings. Sometimes Drey would ask him questions and he would not be able to give her a good advice or an answer because he wasn't able to think or he was in his stoned world. The part that I disapprove is the strange friendship between Dan the teacher and his student Drey. I still don't understand what Dan's intention was. I had a feeling that Drey had a