Detention | Gallery Galschiøt
Date：11/9 20:00
Location：Gallery Galschiøt
（SBanevænget 22, 5270 Odense N, Denmark)
“Have you forgotten? Or are you scared of remembering?”
— Detention (2019)
Adapted from the popular horror video game of the same name, “Detention” is set in a high school during Taiwan’s White Terror period in 1962. A group of students and teachers secretly hold banned book-reading sessions in pursuit of freedom but face government persecution. As the main characters try to escape and search for their missing teacher, they gradually uncover the dark truths of their fate.
Films screened
Detention
Set in 1962, during Taiwan's White Terror, the film tells the story of a group of leftists at Cuihua High School in the mountains who refused to submit to authoritarian rule, joined an underground reading group to read banned books, and were finally punished by the state. The relationship between the student Fang Ray-shin and the teacher Chang Ming-hui, and the experience of the student Wei Chung-ting, open onto the struggle over personal freedom and belief under intense political pressure. The film draws a sharp picture of the price intellectuals and students paid for freedom of thought under totalitarian rule, and of the stifled atmosphere of Taiwanese society in the White Terror years.