DETACHMENT Written by Carl Lund Directed by Tony Kaye Starring Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden and Christina Hendricks Henry Barthes: That bag is empty. It has no feelings. You can’t hurt it. I’m just like that bag. I don’t know what any of us ever did to piss Tony Kaye off but I’m pretty sure that whatever it was, it did not warrant DETACHMENT as retaliation. Kaye’s third feature film is a relentlessly bleak look at the American education system, … more
Star Rating: I had no idea how ill prepared I was to experience Detachment. Here is a film that plunges headfirst into the depths of disillusionment, despair, and failure and almost never resurfaces for air. You will experience emotions normally repressed during movie watching. You will be saddened, shocked, and above all, angered. You will see things you wouldn’t ever want to see and hear things that should never be heard. You will wade through a sea … more