One of the more prominent and popular genre video-games in recent memory, Red Candle’s “Detention” was a massively popular entry that managed to hit on a topical period of Taiwanese history with the focus on the White Terror period in the 1960s. Already adapted into a feature-length adaptation by John Hsu, prominent streaming service Netflix dips into the fray by adapting the game into a new series released at the tail-end of December 2020 with two episodes per week until the end of the month.
Arriving at Greenwood High School in the 1990s, transfer student Yunxiang Liu (Wei Li Ling), steps into the forbidden area on the campus by accident where she encounters the ghost of Ruixin Fang (Ning Han). Fang later unveils the hidden history and trauma over the past 30 years, and how a group of young students and teachers were persecuted as they fought for freedom in the era of censorship.
Arriving at Greenwood High School in the 1990s, transfer student Yunxiang Liu (Wei Li Ling), steps into the forbidden area on the campus by accident where she encounters the ghost of Ruixin Fang (Ning Han). Fang later unveils the hidden history and trauma over the past 30 years, and how a group of young students and teachers were persecuted as they fought for freedom in the era of censorship.
- 1/2/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
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