I was trying to watch Half Nelson
But I don’t know if I can even do it, because it’s doing this thing that movies do. They take an incredibly hot person and ask us to pretend, collectively, that this person isn’t incredibly hot. This movie is asking me to believe in a world in which Ryan Gosling is an underpaid inner-city teacher because he has no other options. And if the point of a story is to create a believable world, then this movie is sucking at that. Same with every movie in which the nerdy best friend of the lead character would still be the hottest kid in your highschool by a lot.
Whatever, alternate world in which Ryan Gosling is not constantly swamped in women and is not wildly successful in whatever he pursues because when you’re that good looking you are success embodied by default (proved by science). Whatever. I do not believe in you.
