“Detachment” quotes
(2011)
Title Detachment
Year 2011
Director Tony Kaye
Genre Drama
Year 2011
Director Tony Kaye
Genre Drama
Plot – Henry Barthes is a temporary lit teacher in a high school, but he's also a lonely man who wants to keep others at a distance. However, he tries to teach something to his students, but he gets a new job in a degraded suburban public school. There the students have no hopes for the future and the teachers are disillusioned too. Henry's life is upset by the meeting with Erica, a teenage prostitute, and Meredith, a brilliant and sensitive student. The experience shortens Henry's distance within the world.
All actors – Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan, Christina Hendricks, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, Tim Blake Nelson, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Sami Gayle, Betty Kaye, Louis Zorich, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Chris Papavasiliou, Kwoade Cross, David Hausen, Roslyn Ruff, Jerry Walsh, John Cenatiempo, Brenda Pressley, Tiffani Holland, Lucian Maisel, Alex Boniello, Celia Au, Mary Joy, Michael Hammond, Ronen Rubinstein, Al Calderon, Brennan Brown, Celia Schaefer, Reagan Leonard, Tarikk Mudu, Kevin T. Collins, Stephen Payne, James Hosey, Michael Kaufman, Nancy Rodriguez, Justin Campbell, Aaron Sauter, Josh Pais, Renée Felice Smith, Doug E. Doug, Rebecka Ray, Patricia Rae, Mama Kohn, Corwin C. Tuggles, Lonon Jay Wilson, Samantha Logan, Ralph Rodriguez, Annabel Barrett, April Maxey, Amber Vanterpool, Eli Massillon, Alsharik Sejour, Jonathan Hudson, Elvis Muccino, , Jeremy McLain, Susan Neuffer
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How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing 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... (continue)(continue reading)
“To defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.”
“Just listen to me: we’re all the same. We all feel pain. We all have chaos in our lives. Life is very very confusing.”
“Life is an ocean of chaos and the realization that you are the one supposed to throw the buoy while struggling to stay afloat is devastating.”
“We all have problems, we all have things that we're dealing with some days we're better than others, some days we're not so great. Sometimes we have limited space for others.”
“Some of us believe that we can make a difference, and then somethimes we wake up, and then realized we failed.”
“Unfortunately, most people lack self awareness.”
“A child's intelligent heart can fathom the depth of many dark places, but can it fathom the delicate moment of its own detachment?”
“I'm afraid you've gotten fucked and thrown away so many times you've gotten used to it.”
“We have such a responsibility to guide our young so that they don't end up falling apart, falling by the wayside, becoming insignificant.”
“We all need something to distract us from the complexity of reality. No one wants to think about where that came from, no one wants to think about the struggle that it takes to become somebody, to get out of the sea of pain that we all have to get out of.”
“There should be a prerequisite, a curriculum for being a parent before people attempt. Don’t try this at home!”
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