Detachment Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Tony Kaye
Production: Tribeca Films
  8 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
98 min
$48,868
Website
7,328 Views


Okay?

Can I go now?

I supposed you can, I mean.

If we're done.

Are we done?

- We're done.

- We're done.

Another student saved.

Come out of

the bathroom, grandma!

Come on granma,

open the door.

Hi, grandpa.

Grandpa.

Grandpa.

You okay?

What is it, grandpa?

It's Henry, grandpa.

Grandpa, it's Henry.

- Who?

- Are you in pain?

No, no. I ...

I pissed myself.

Come on, grandma,

open the door!

Excuse me

Excuse me

- Can you come in here please?

- We have a little accident?

- Yes

- You should ... haa..

- Do you wanna? - No, no.

- See, we're taking care of it.

See? You're okay.

- You right? - Are you doin'

any writing, grandpa?

In journals?

No, my life ...

My life isn't worth memoires.

It's ok, it's okay.

I didn't wanna to go

out like this.

I hate being a burden.

You're not a burden.

Okay?

You're not a burden.

Sure. You...

You like coming here, eh?

Your mother came by today.

Have you spoken to her lately?

No.

Now, you tell her

I'm fine?

You always say you're fine, but

I know you hide things from me.

You've always been closed off.

Ever since you were a kid.

Why is that?

Why?

Ah, you're upset. I shouldn't

say these things to you...

- I don't mean to make you...

- You haven't upset me, grandpa.

It's that I don't wanna

talk about the past.

You and I remember it

very differently.

Get rest, O.K?

Close your eyes. I'm here.

- I am in here with you

- When you stop coming, Henry

I'll die.

F***.

You got a smoke?

No, I don't have a smoke.

Where did you go, eh?

- What are you gonna do now?

- What are you gonna do, little kid?

I don't know.

Can you lend me ten bucks?

Come on, man I'm hungry.

I may have something

to eat at my place.

Come in, wash your hands.

There's soap over there.

Sit down.

Really nice place you got.

Thanks.

- You got anything stronger?

- Eat your sandwich.

Hey, hold on man!

- It's a 100 bucks.

- Relax...

What?

- Have you been raped recently?

- What do you care?

I'm not sure

that I do particulary.

Find and put something on it.

Look, I gotta get back.

Back?

Back where?

Listen, buddy,

If you don't got the

money it's cool. I mean,

I like you.

I'll blow you for 50?

Listen to me,

knock off the bullsit, okay?

Come in the bathroom.

It's gonna sting a little bit.

Why are you doing this?

Take a shower

- This is fresh towel.

- Thanks.

Go to sleep.

Hello, this is Dr. Parker

My son's ADHD and I looked it up

online, and that's what hes' got.

Now you gotta

get im a free laptop.

Mr. Kevin, your son Oliver

injured a student.

His problems are behavioral.

Hey, my kid's got a disability

and he's not learning anything,

and this is your fault!

Hey, hey...

What are you doing?

What is the matter with you?

As it is, our resources emaciated.

Now, I heave real LD kids

that need my attention.

He's always mad all the time because

he's not getting the services he needs.

No Child Left Behind

promises me my rights.

You'll be hearing from

my lawyer. - Mr...

Hey, what are you doing?

What is this?

What is this? Funny? Get to

class. Get to class right now.

What's the joke?

I don't get the joke. Huh?

Is this funny? Does that

look good to you?

You like hurting animals? Huh?!

Is that what you like to do?

Answer me! You like hurting

animals? You like this?!

Come here. Go.

Lets go. Come on.

Walk

Mr. Raymond, the studies

have shown that kids

who are prone to hurting

animals at an early age

eventually fall into a

high percentage of adults

who may fail to develop even

the most basic feeling for people.

Raven.

How do you feel about this?

I feel ...

Trapped.

Like the cat.

F***.

Who are you? Why?

Did you pay?

Did you pay her?

- Yeah alright, here...

- Pay her!

- Alright, here, take...

- What are you paying me for, huh?!

It wasn't in my mouth!

Get f*** out of here.

Get out of here! F***!

Don't hurt me!

Here ...

Change your sheets!

How do you do it kid?

Please don't be mad at me.

I am not mad at you.

Don't think about

leaving me.

I won't do it anymore,

I promise.

You don't need to promise me.

Okay don't promise to me.

Whatever it is, you feel

you need to do, you do it.

But you don't do it here!

Okay?

What are you doing there?

Don't you knock?

What is all this supposed to be?

Your tortured soul?

Why don't you paint

something cheerful?

Like happy with colors.

Whadya want from me dad, besides

for me to have been born with a penis.

I don't work all day

to have my night ruined

by your teen angst.

???

I am not goin' to support you

and your little creative habits!

Okay? I've had it with all

of all your little art projects

that are going nowhere!

You always know

what to say, dad.

Now, if you cleared...

and lost some weight

you could attract

a nice boys, who knows.

There should be

a prerequisite,

curriculum for being an parent,

before the people attempt to.

Don't try this at home.

Take these.

What are those?

You're supposed to ask me

before you take them.

They're vitamins,

and Aspirin.

At some point

you should get an HIV test.

At some point.

Why are you crying on the bus?

Go to sleep.

A friend of yours?

A friend.

Oh...No, no...

He was ....

Total a**hole.

What was his problem?

He chose a vocation that

did not choose him.

And then he spent his

whole career

"casting pearls before swine",

He talked like that...

The child-hater, basically.

He tried to purge Steinbeck and

Faulkner from required reading list.

Well, let it be said from

the safety of his sabbatical,

You can do no more harm.

How did he die?

Who knows, and who cares.

"Hello"

"It's drudgery, this life"

"and retention"

"suspension, expulsion"

"staff meetings"

"The Papers cuts"

"The vacant parents"

"Their vicious kids"

"Theye're the dreads

of the pain"

"They spat on my soul"

"This humiliation will stop"

"Discipline must be restored,

these kids have us on the run."

" We're the ones on trial!"

" It's f***ing madness! "

"Like every child has value? "

"Is aware and worthy of

a private education"

"F***ing kids who have

no desires,"

"no fire..."

"No minds to be..."

" Assimilate "

What does that mean?

To take something in.

OK, excellent. To absorb.

" Ubiquitous "

Anyone?

Everywhere, all the time.

So what...

"ubiquitous assimilation"

Always absorbing everything

everywhere all the time.

Well done, George.

How are you

to imagine anything,

if the images are always

provided for you?

Who here had read

"1984" last year?

Good.

Anyone?

Meredith.

Having two opposing

beliefs at once.

Believing that both are true.

Excellent.

Why do you always suck

his dick, you f***in' kiss-ass?

To deliberately believe in lies

while knowning they're false.

Examples of this

in everyday life:

Oh, I,

need to be pretty

to be happy.

I need surgery

to be pretty.

I need to be thin

Famous

Fashionable

Our young men,

today,

are being told that women

are whores;

b*tches, things to be screwed,

beaten,

sh*t on,

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