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At best this 2011 film that runs 97 minutes is a 50/50 proposition.There are a few views one can take from the film and as such I can recommend it,however,I also feel,sadly,that "damaged"people can become teachers in too great a number as all the teachers in this film are damaged,so how "heroic"are they really?Anyway,thats my take away and I'm sure that was not the films aim,or,maybe it was?? Still the acting is what makes it worth a view.There is a well know cast of actors doing smaller parts and all well,but its is mainly two that stayed with me,Adrien Brody,who is this generations Al Pacino because of his range and sometimes bad choice of projects,as the substitute teacher and young and upcoming Sami Gayle as a young street "pro".Talk about range,there is a future for her.
However as far as a story with any hope of changing todays dead end city schools,you'll not find any answers here.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.Be warned,it is also very hard to watch in parts.
Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world. Written by Anonymous
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