Detachment (2011) revolves around a substitute teacher who roams school to school in order to evoke some sensitive response in his students but at the same time finds himself failing to form a connection due to existential despair. He is on a journey to understand himself and develop deep, meaningful bonds. However, he is unable to make the people around him see him and even if they do, it is not how he expected to be seen. He goes ghost when a self related problem crops up and is constantly under heavy construction, making observations and making conclusions based on half wit. He is troubled, apathetic, pessimistic, hopeless and tired yet he is relentlessly and religiously driven to do something about that which he can control. His own life is without a rein, he lets life take him wherever it blows it, and during his stays, he tries to externalize his emotions onto something that doesn't affect him directly. A seriously profound and beautiful movie that makes you question everything you live for and everything that you are.
5 Stars.
