Detachment

2012
7.7| 1h38m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 16 March 2012 Released
Producted By: Appian Way
Country: United States of America
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A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

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raju-surya39 Although the movie goes around without a proper plot the movie is worth watching only for Brilliant Acting of the Adrien Brody...
kkokkolatos This film was beyond great. I firmly believe that not a known award is equal to the film's greatness. These characters seemed to be made by the hardest stone. So deep, emotional and strong. I could see them from my screen and right away, I was able to feel them, to hear them in real life. Their pain, misery, the feeling of lack of security, their crying, their laugh...Got into my soul.That's the main reason which the movie was made: to come into you. And it has succeeded as hell. It didn't show life at its best, neither life at its worst; only life as it is. We didn't see our characters actually heal, we didn't see them being truly happy. We saw their improvement, how the got an actual help. Eventually, that's life. To finish your time helping yourself, helping others. this is the way to true happiness. And, as the movie says, for all of this you need courage, bravery, strong attitude. Letting down is sure easily than trying hard to be better. Yes, true. But that is something that gets you into spiritual trouble. Thus, the main character was the key to give, not solutions to others problems, but to give them inspiration. There was a great accomplishment in that.Camera was awesome, as so editing. The colors were as I best like them. Music fitted nice. 10/10. Detached gave me chills.
Fernando Sanchez There's no doubt that the film comes with good intentions. However, it fails horribly in it's execution. It uses terrible narrative and cinematic tropes that bombard the screen, making an incoherent cringe-worthy mess. The ya-ho of a director is reaching deep for sensationalism. I'm sure he's a good guy, with good intentions, but his choices and taste are blasé, overcooked, so yesterday, redundant, straight up cheesy. Has this guy walked outside his house in the last 5 years. Does he know anything of the modern world? Or am I talking about the script now. The world-weary school teacher who wrote it and probably won't ever write anything worthwhile again after this crap.
twotrybe I became curious about this film because I read where this film was Same Gayle's feature debut. I didn't know anything about this person other than her role on Blue Blood and that show limits her acting strength after seeing Detachment. Here was a film that Tony Kaye directed with an understatement that disguises the powerful argument for sterilization. The students have dissolved into disrespectful future parole violators and the parents, some of them, are the source of these problem children. And trying to ride that ship in turbulent waters in the Adrian Brody character. His attempts to settle those waters is a force of nature one man cannot do alone. But I don't know if he calms those waters following a tragedy or if all hell hits the place and that was a dream? I don't know how old Sami Gayle was when this role was filmed but her corrupt innocence is washed over as an abused prostitute. Her first time encounter with the Adrian Brody character isn't Pretty Woman, a film I hated for it's depiction of the happily ever after prostitute. Sami Gayle's prostitute had more realism to it. The only misgivings I had was that the audience never got to know the results from her medical test. Perhaps it was edited out for time. And the teachers were excellent. I saw where Adrian Brody was the producer for this project. He pulled some top notched actors that made this work. James Caan , Lucy Lui, Marsha Gay Harden, Christine Hendricks, the other guy who held on to the chain link fence, all were good. And while watching this, you had the feeling that some student might go off on the deep end and that was predictable and not unexpected but it was done with the right tempo and uniqueness, no gun play.And I saw where it didn't do well at the box office. Well, with video on demand, I hope this avenue will work out for them so that more eyes can watch this exceptionally independent film.