Netflix is bringing “Detention” to our screens. The Taiwanese movie was not released in Mainland China but received great reviews and held a strongbox across the South Asian countries it opened in. The movie is based on the video of the same name. While, both of these are based on a chilling incident that occurred in Taiwan and came to be known to the locals and later on the world as the 1947 Keelung Senior High School incident. The movie is classified under the genre of psychological horror.
“Detention” is set in the period of the infamous “White Terror”, a period that has gone down into history books and that set an example in the world for one of the longest terms for martial laws ever imposed. Coming back to the movie, as it is set in such a period, there is a looming heaviness to it also for the fact that it is a horror movie. A young girl starts to have feelings for her teacher and spends time with him as she and a fellow student join a study group in those trying times.
In the times when school, the environment around her, and also in the house were getting heated, her feelings towards her teacher acted like a pack of ice, calming everything down. One fine day, just as the group assembled for their study group program amongst the politically dangerous period, they come to know that their teacher has gone missing. It comes as a shock to both the students that no one else besides them remembers him. As they try to get out of school, they see a shift in the situation. It was no more their school but a hunting ground for demons and lost spirits.
Trying to find a way out and looking for their teacher, these two need to brace themselves for something that is more terrifying than the immediate political situation in their lives.
Though the movie received good reviews, many who went through that period themselves mentioned that the situation shown in the film didn’t match what they went through. They thought though the movie was based in that period, it didn’t show much resemblance to those times.
But, as a horror movie lover, one must definitely add this Taiwanese piece to their list as soon as it hits Netflix and be ready to get pulled back in time.
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