half nelson

This film is particularly interesting because of the interesting dialogue, handheld camera-work and the way the storyline begins half way through the actual story.

For instance, an issues in the film (but not the main issue) is the main characters addiction to drugs. The film starts and he is already an addict, and we are never told how and why he became an addict in the first place.

I later discovered that this information has been left out for a reason. This film was not about someone becoming addicted to drugs. It was about someone with an addiction struggling to cope with the controversial polotics within society.

Therefore by leaving out certain events that are irrelevant to the current storyline you are able to add more emphasis to the main subject of the film.