Detachment. 2011.
Adrian Brody stars as substitute teacher in a high school finds he has a connection with his students and dealing with personnel problems.
On the surface this deals with the crumbling American education system through the eyes of substitute teacher Henry Barthes who starts a new assignment in a new school with new teachers, in a new class with new pupils like he is obviously used to.Barthes makes clear that he is hollow and words can't hurt him which is his way of coping with a hopeless situation by neglecting his private life and detaching from the world. Like him every teacher seems to have developed his individual coping mechanism.
There is some dark humour, when you think you may be in for a laugh, the film changes into being a drama again and shows how American education system is viewed by politics, grades and how that can't effect outside the classroom and views of the other teachers and their personnel lives. James Caan, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu, Tim Blake Nelson have small roles but provide a good on screen presence. One I'm happy to come back to.
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