Detainment (2018)

It's Memorial Day in the Unites States, the day we've chosen to honor all the fallen in war.  People don't like to think about death, but please know that for some of us, it's never far from our thoughts.  Please be kind and respectful today and all days.  You never know what someone is going through.    Do any of you remember the James Bulger case from 1993?  I don't but I was a kid when it happened and not really paying attention to international crime news.  The gist is that two ten-year-old boys were tried as adults and convicted of murdering 3-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool, England.  This short film dramatizes the account.  It's drawn from interrogation tapes made of the two boys, Jon (Ely Solan) and Robert (Leon Hughes), after being identified by surveillance footage taking the toddler from a mall.

This is pretty harrowing, even without the violence of the actual murder.  Watching one kid fall apart under police investigation while the other becomes damn near combative is guaranteed to cause some kind of emotional response in the viewer.

Not for the faint of heart.