Some might claim that it's irrelevant,
But does anybody know if Denise Fergus has even seen Detainment?
I can understand her anger at perhaps not being consulted by the Director or production company before/during production. But I very much get the impression that Ms. Fergus' animosity to the film is based largely on conjecture.
(, Sat 26 Jan 2019, 19:42, Reply)
I haven't seen Detainment
But I'm sure it doesn't depict the murder itself. I have seen Utoya, also from last year, and it crossed a line. It is truly fucking horrible. A director using the dead, and needling the survivors' trauma, as a calling card to Hollywood.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 26 Jan 2019, 19:58,
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I’m willing to see what the critical opinion of it is first.
If it was made sensitively with the intention of exploring the reasons for the crime or similar, then I’m willing to give it a pass. The fact that the director didn’t make contact beforehand suggests that’s not the case though, and that it’s more likely that this is just a sensationalist straight retelling. In which case everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed.
I strongly doubt she’s been invited to any preview showing.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 26 Jan 2019, 20:05,
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That's a very good question which goes unanswered in the reports.
The closest it comes is "Mrs Fergus had said she was haunted by some of the imagery in the film..."
I imagine she's torturing herself by watching trailers and clips like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7dOW8Zj-_w
It's very likely to go largely unseen.
"If Lambe’s plan had been to boost his own prospects with the pre-release controversy, it has backfired. He’s also found himself in a slightly Kafkaesque situation whereby he can’t defend his film’s balanced perspective by showing it to the British public. “The trickiest place to get it shown is the UK, and that’s the most important place for it to be shown.
“I don’t know if a TV station is going to take it. It’s kind of hard to get them to do it when people are saying it shouldn’t have been made and you shouldn’t watch it.”
The contract he’s signed with his distributor means he can’t post Detainment for free online and his approaches to cinemas have met with silence. “We said the proceeds would go to the James Bulger Memorial Trust if they did want to show it but no one wants to screen it so far.”"
via: https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/film/detainment-director-vincent-lambe-james-bulger-case-a4041341.html
(, Sat 26 Jan 2019, 22:33, Reply)
I think her animosity is most likely the result of a dead child tbh
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 27 Jan 2019, 2:27,
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And she's easily manipulated by the tabloids, who have her on speed-dial
"Denise, there's a horrible new film out and we were wondering if you could tell us how upsetting it will be once you've viewed the clip we're about to send."
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Mon 28 Jan 2019, 12:16,
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