No matter how one may see this as a downer movie, hang in there long enough to see the showered (cleansed) water-drinking version of a man ripe for recovery just not quite ready to feel the pain of an idealistic heart, a man possibly too sensitive for life I understand completely. He needs to be numb. On alcohol, coke (or crack when he's too broke to afford an 8 ball of the white man's version). But I fell in love with this lonely character by an actor who has slowly won me over by and whose varying roles were good until he immersed his soul in this lonely optimist pessimistic struggling human being with whom I relate. I love his eyes, his half interested glance that's really a stare .... a face that has at last won me over. Do not watch this film if you're jonesing for a
drug like crack. Wait. And don't see the film to feel good. Watch it to feel.
Review of Half Nelson
