After reading it, I felt like I was knocked twice on my chest.

Blaze 2022-03-24 09:02:05

This is an afterthought. After watching this movie, I feel like a frying pan has been knocked on my chest twice.

While watching, I traveled back to my junior high school days, the school that was spurned by the surrounding elementary schools as "you will go to that school if you don't study hard", I think of the class teacher who was ill, the beautiful English teacher, the bitter political teacher, the popular and The Lolita biology teacher who left us for the postgraduate entrance examination, a very old and understanding mathematics teacher ("You don't want to review mathematics, there will be no improvement in a short time, look at physical chemistry"); and my own class 1/ 2Single parents & classmates from poor urban families, classmates who are not studying at all in other classes, dilapidated basketball courts, canteens with nothing for sale, old janitors from underworld... After entering high school, I enjoyed a 4-person room. When I had an air conditioner, water heater, and a dormitory with a large balcony, I still had that junior high school in my heart.

This is a strange complex. It is undeniable that both high school and junior high school have their own pains, but I can clearly perceive the struggle and reality of junior high school teachers. This is something that most high school teachers don't have. The income of teachers in these two schools is too different, and the quality of students is too far behind.

But I always felt like I came from that junior high school and didn't have a sense of belonging to high school.

Back in the movie, I think of what my uncle said to my brother in Little Miss Sunshine: Proust said that when he reminisced about the past, all his growth came from his miserable days, and there was nothing in his happy days Leave. And high school? High school is a good time to be miserable.

That's right. Liu Yuling's scene left a deep impression on me, especially when I looked back at my own state.

The plot of the film itself is fragmented, and the monologue is also very strange. I always feel that what is expressed through characters should not be direct things, but should be in line with the content of the characters themselves. That is to say, the object should be a character, not the audience itself. Of course this seems to be an old concept. Regarding monologues and narrations, I still prefer Rohmer's approach, even if it is to the audience, it is also a character with a personality. The most important thing is that these words do not necessarily reflect his true emotions, but are processed expressions of his true emotions. And through the behaviors in the plot and the emotions that have been dealt with or the language that is covered when expressed, the characters are collectively reflected.

Having said that, when I watched this movie, I really had to pick a good time. I went to bed after watching it, and ended up having a very depressing dream...

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Extended Reading
  • Aliza 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Oops, what's up with this shitty vibe?

  • Briana 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    This film seems to be about the education of young people, but it is actually about the helplessness of this world. In this miserable world, even just keeping oneself whole has become so difficult. Schools are just a stage, and young people are the fruits of the world we shape. The last paragraph of desolation and dilapidation is an obvious metaphor. We have lost all our greatness and dignity, and from now on there is only an endless desert of insatiable appetites.

Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: Y'know you can't... you can't keep living on the street...

    Erica: I'm not, I mean, I'm staying here with you.

    Henry Barthes: Well, you can't continue to stay here with me. I'm not good for you...

    Erica: That's not true. You're like, the only family I've ever had...

    Henry Barthes: Well, I can't be your family, I can't give you what you need. You have to understand, you should be...

    Erica: You're good and gentle, you're the most kind... I love you Henry. Don't let them take me, please nooooooooo, you're all I have, please don't let me go.

    [Social workers take her away still protesting]

  • Henry Barthes: I am money, I change hands like the dollar bill, that has been rubbed by a lamp; Then a genie appeared and cried loudly, with volume; But the tears were all for myself, and that's where it all went wrong