half nelson

just saw nelson. without gosling, epps, some cool photography, and the occasional good lines, this would be offensive, all those stereotypes lined up like pins and all. as it is, it’s watchable. gosling is an incredibly charismatic actor. i saw him for the first time a few days ago in fracture, which held mostly because of him. he seems to have been born in front of the camera. i wonder, though, if he ever acts without all those twitches. in fracture the twitching was even worse than in nelson, even though his character was as sober and clean as a whistle.