Detention2021
Detention (2021)
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Critic Consensus: Politically charged horror that's as viscerally effective as it is intellectually stimulating, Detention's got class.
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Cast
as Fang Ray Shin
as Mr. Chang Ming-hui
as Wei Chong-Ting
as Ms. Yin Tsui-Han
as Fang's Father
as Fang's Mother
Critic Reviews for Detention
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For all the game's attention to the ways fear can become rooted in personal and collective psyches, this adaptation feels curiously depersonalized.
In gaming terms, this movie's characters find themselves on a screen where every move leads to a bottomless pit. The nightmare they're in is as existential as it is visceral.
Forgiveness and remembrance are intertwined in this powerful story. An apt heir to [Guillermo] del Toro at his most analytical, it's a stirring political fable dressed in the ghoulish weaves of a creepy monster flick.
In sidelining this sort of haughty regard for legalistic or precisely objective forms of truth, Procession sprints ahead of most nonfiction filmmaking -- and most journalism, too -- by actually contending with what counts.
The film mixes elements of monsters and haunted house scares with a political thriller to engage audiences. There are some odd narrative shifts and tonal changes but if you stick through to the end it all makes sense and is actually quite clever.
Looks fantastic, but ... never quite comes together in its conflicted impulses.
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