Should you watch Detainment?
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Detainment
Documentary · 2018
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.
The sides of Detainment
- Two ten-year-old boys in police custody
- Interviews drawn from real interrogation records
- The 1993 murder of toddler James Bulger
Detainment is good for you if…
- you want to understand a real case through the words of its interrogations.
- you can't look away from two child actors carrying a film.
- you want to face how children could commit a crime.
Detainment is bad for you if…
- the murder of a child is too much for you.
- you need some hope at the end of a film.
About: guilt · childhood · justice
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