Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Half Nelson

Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
2006
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Drama
Director:
Ryan Fleck…
Outstanding Performances:
Shareeka EPPS…
Ryan GOSLING…
Anthony MACKIE…
Premiss:
Inner-city junior high-school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
Themes:
Alienation
Compassion
Destiny
Emotional repression
Friendship
Guilt
Loneliness
Personal change
Political Correctness
White culture
White supremacy
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Unknown
Review Format:
DVD

Good film about the superficiality of White culture and of how so many White liberals lurk in other cultures to find something worth living for. But, this never works because - although the need comes from within - the alleged solution does not.

This movie suffers from the same problem itself; while generally avoiding the usual cringe-making elements often found in films made by Whites - especially the White savior complex.


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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.