Half Nelson

...der portrætteres hjertevarme og karakterdybde i en på overfladen kold historie...

...sidestep the clichés of the white-teacher-who-spreads-knowledge-in-an-inner-city-school sub-genre and the drearier aspects of the drug dependency drama, creating an original work that is moving, not without humour...

Everything that makes this movie so terrific is right there in that scene, in the interplay between these two characters -- and these two actors.

Gosling excels at playing contradictory characters like this one...

'Half Nelson', with its bleakly hopeful view of humanity both damned and redeemed – simultaneously – is uncomfortably, almost exactly right.