A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.
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Did you know
- TriviaBetty Kaye (who portrays Meredith) is the daughter of Director Tony Kaye.
- GoofsIn the morning of Erica's first stay in Henry's flat, we see Henry on the roof wearing the ring which Erica will give him days later as a present.
- Quotes
Henry Barthes: Whatever is on my mind, I say it as I feel it, I'm truthful to myself; I'm young and I'm old, I've been bought and I've been sold, so many times. I am hard-faced, I am gone. I am just like you.
- Crazy credits[intertitle near start] And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. - Albert Camus
- ConnectionsFeatured in Maltin on Movies: 21 Jump Street (2012)
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Written by Taylor Eigsti
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Detachment is a dark movie which everyone can relate with, the solitariness, the cynicism, the despair and the darker shades of our lives which we cover with many other things. It doesn't end on a good note unlike the common genre movies - it could have easily drifted that way to be more appealing. But then who's gonna live happily forever!!
Though the education system and the schools and the students ain't that evil and rotten the way its shown in the movie, it does pose many a question, the dubious system in which everything goes on without a point. The miserable life of teachers were beautifully shown, yes they do go through worse situations. Adrien Brody does something meaty after pianist as the cool, composed and ailing substitute teacher. The climax was so dramatic and metaphorical, the background score adds value to the visual richness.
The screenplay is too dark at times, the lighter moments and the virtuous elements highly underplayed though it saves the movie many a time from drowning. I loved the way the narration takes us through, we feel the pain the characters are going through. Wish had it been lighter in content with some thing which kindled a ray of virtue somewhere, Alas! but that's the way it is..
Though the education system and the schools and the students ain't that evil and rotten the way its shown in the movie, it does pose many a question, the dubious system in which everything goes on without a point. The miserable life of teachers were beautifully shown, yes they do go through worse situations. Adrien Brody does something meaty after pianist as the cool, composed and ailing substitute teacher. The climax was so dramatic and metaphorical, the background score adds value to the visual richness.
The screenplay is too dark at times, the lighter moments and the virtuous elements highly underplayed though it saves the movie many a time from drowning. I loved the way the narration takes us through, we feel the pain the characters are going through. Wish had it been lighter in content with some thing which kindled a ray of virtue somewhere, Alas! but that's the way it is..
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $72,689
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,739
- Mar 18, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $1,688,710
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16 : 9
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