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- Scott Z Burns' legal drama is based on the true story of Dan Jones, played by Adam Driver, the lead investigator on the Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report, which documented the CIA's rendition, detention, and interrogation program from 2002 to 2008.
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Jan 26, 2019 · Detainment's writer-director Vincent Lambe’s based the movie Detainment on the true story of the murder of James Bulger. James Bulger was a two-year-old boy who was abducted in the UK in...
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Detentionfollows transfer student Yunxiang Liu as she attends Greenwood High School in the 1990s. This differs a lot from the point-and-click horror game source material, which was entirely set in the 1960s on a dark, stormy night in abandoned Greenwood High. This shift in adaptation was all too deliberate, but the stories are more parallel than yo...
The White Terror was a 38-year-long period of martial law within Taiwan, a time when many people were arrested for being so-called “bandit spies” for communist China. It was a time of intense censorship and control, exhibited in Detentionthrough constant bag searches for contraband books. According to the show’s producers, doing a little homework i...
While this series would make for an engrossing binge-watch, you’ll have to be a bit more patient. Unlike most shows on Netflix, due to a deal with the Taiwanese production company, Detentionis being released two episodes at a time every Saturday. Most Netflix showrunners would consider this a curse, but the minds behindDetentionsee it as an advanta...
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In 1960’s Taiwan, during the White Terror, high school student Wei Chung Ting is a member of a secret book club, headed by teacher Miss Yin Tsui Han, that reads and studies books banned by the government; the possession of which is heavily penalized.
Scott Z Burns' legal drama is based on the true story of Dan Jones, played by Adam Driver, the lead investigator on the Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report, which documented the...
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Apr 10, 2024 · Randy Randall earned the nickname “true story” at the Pulaski detention facility due to his frequent use of the phrase. As one of the facility’s “elders,” he assumed a leadership role in maintaining order, especially after restrictions were eased.
The spooky horror film has raised the profile of Taiwanese psychological terror films. But what’s most unsettling about “Detention” is the fact that it’s based on a true story....
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Aug 31, 2020 · Detention stars Fang, an 18-year-old student trapped in a monster-filled hellscape. Fellow uniformed classmates and teachers swirl about as zombified avatars acting out a gruesome play, and only Wei from the grade below shares her sentience, both of them similarly stuck in the film’s metaphor for the White Terror.
