"Detachment" is a classic with a strong documentary style, directed by the famous director Tony Kaye. The film was nominated for the best film of the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival. The director won the Best Art Contribution Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for his unique visual style. Tony Kaye is a director in a mainstream commercial film environment. His attention to social issues is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. He has photographed many real-life films, such as “American History X” on racism and "Black Water Transit" on environmental issues. The reflection and vigilance of social morality and institutional issues in Tony Kaye's films is the core motivation for his filming. Therefore, for this classic film "Detachment", while discussing the return of human nature, it also tries to explore and reflect on the ills of the education system. Throughout the film, "Detachment" has a strange decadent style and a heavy lens language, so the expressive power of the male star is quite important. The film is starred by Adrien Brody, who won the 75th Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Brody has a very distinctive shape and a unique gloomy look. In “Detachment", Brody presents Henry Barthes as a living teacher in the past. He shows each of the three different women. The different levels of role motivation, the deeper bone marrow of a man's self-doubt and redemptive pain in the face of psychological dilemma, fully demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of the characters, making the characters of Henry teachers three-dimensional and rich. The film tells the story of a teacher, Henry Barthes, who went to the community school as a substitute teacher. The school is on the brink of desperation due to student rebellion and poor management, and a group of teachers led by Doris are suffering. Henry’s first lesson was challenged by a stubborn student, but he was subtly dismissed, and he won the female teacher Sarah’s favor in teaching and getting along. At the same time, his teaching style has aroused the interest of the students, including Meredith, who is depressed by obesity. She has been silently suffering from all kinds of scolding and ridicule caused by weight. Because Henry teacher, she began to slowly find a new self-awareness.
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But Henry actually has tremendous pressure on his heart. His grandfather is in the midst of dying, and his mother’s suicide shadow is always lingering in her mind. One night, he was so sad on the bus that he was crying alone. This situation was seen by a young prostitute, Erica, who had just received hacking. She followed him and hoped to get his help. He refused her request at first. Later, he took her back to the single apartment. He didn't touch her. Instead, he guided Erica in the future. At the same time, Henry gradually found it. The path of self-redemption has regained a new life. The film script is based on the Henry teacher, and it explains the emotional intersection between him and the three women. The emotional dilemma and self-doubt displayed in each intersection are progressively advanced. Tony Kaye’s lens is full of documentary and fictional images. The wonderful sense of blending and the narrative of the whole film is unfolding in an atmosphere that is also true, illusory, real but devastating.
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As Tony Kay said: "I took pictures of people's crying, laughter, fear, whisper, love and hate. I think that as long as this is the case, the film makes sense. For me, the lens is both a microscope and a telescope. It should be used to study everything about people. This is the consistent principle of my filming.” For the audience, this kind of lens is undoubtedly deadly. It does not leave a trace of space. When you expose the truth of life to you, the more you feel pain, the more you feel sober, until you admit your helplessness and cowardice, and you really begin to receive self-salvation. People can only learn how to accept and embrace each other and warm up if they truly lose their burdens to the fate and learn to endure the hardships of life. Obese girl is ridiculed for their weight and autistic. For her, this experience is the dilemma of life and the psychological haze. Henry taught her not to resist, accept his own defects, and then embrace others and the world. When Henry met the bullied young girl and took her home, he didn’t even think of himself. After taking care of this astray girl day after day, he was in the heart of long-term trivial life. It began to gradually calm down and gradually opened the door to the world. The younger sister finally stopped resisting the pain and embraced Henry. He was always enlightening others, but he was trapped in the gloomy. He should face the burden of fate, and finally felt the power of heating each other through the giving and helping of another person. The loneliness of the film shows the feeling of loneliness, so that everyone who has had the pressure of life, even those who have closed the heart from now on.
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74308-detachment?language=en-US
Critic: AAA