TLDR; Kevin’s thirst for violence, Eva’s weakness, Franklin’s oblivion, Eva and Franklin’s lack of communication, modern practices of educating a child…these are the ingredients which created the monster Kevin became. What Mr. Fisher has done is write the type of review that I’ve longed for. 0000021923 00000 n Shriver, in the marvelous and terrible piece of clockwork that is her novel, has given us a character who is not guilty nor innocent of her son's atrocities, and forces us to linger in that uncomfortable ambiguity. ", "This guy has a unique angle, and his reviews are a lot of fun (and very easy on the eye, too!).

In these letters, she relates the history of her relationship with her husband, and the events of Kevin's life up to the killings, and her thoughts concerning their relationship. 0000005393 00000 n

She does not give up at trying, but she realizes that her attempts are futile (she really needed to consult about interventions with Kevin). We Need To Talk About Kevin is about the aftermath of a Columbine-style shooting at a school in a small American town. THIS is what a film review SHOULD BE. My main question is regarding the relationship between Kevin …

His wickedness towards her was his way of denying himself rejection by her. He became aware at a very young age that she did not have any kind of connection with him and wanted to ensure that she would never know that he loved/needed her. Kevin didn’t kill his father and sister because he hated them (though I do believe he did slightly because they were fools who couldn’t see who he was), but because he hated his mother. 0000016690 00000 n [4] Michael Clayton producer Jennifer Fox joined the production team in 2008; the film was expected to begin shooting that year. I agree with Agigail, he wanted his mother’s love, but he needed her to set boundaries. Which is not a compliment. In other words, she cooked the ingredients that make a monster”, are you KIDDING ME?

The only reason he does not kill Eva in the end, instead of his father and sister, is because he wanted to make her life a living hell. But for me kevin was besides all of the things you have said a little clumsy with his feeling and mainly what he had was something close to a mother complex.For me he was not an enigma and even as a child he could sense the rejection within the mothers actions. The night out for dinner? He blithely goes about his life relatively undisturbed. There is no dialog between Eva and Franklin. The ‘who’ is unbearable to face. I come from RI, the only state that celebrates VJ Day & it is. I don’t think Kevin was born nasty although after reading the book I said to my husband that maybe there was a slight chemical imbalance in the brain to start with that no doctors would pick up on. Film Quarterly offers serious film lovers in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews that examine all aspects of film history, film theory, and the impact of film, video, and television on culture and society. Very interesting ideas here… just saw the movie; did not read the book. Having recently read ‘The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog’ and much more on child development and disorders I think it is important to remember that this is a work of fiction. The problem is that the character of Kevin neither comes off as naturalistically plausible nor as mythically compelling: instead, he is a sour melodrama turn, a sullen pantomime villain, a demon from the wrong kind of horror film. I’d love to read the sequel … something like “Talking to Kevin” to discover that Kevin had been systematically abused, either by his mother or father, from birth or that he suffers from some severe abnormal brain activity (mental illness or injury) … I refuse to believe the old-school, religion based idea that some people are just ‘born evil’. It focuses on, and is entirely focused through, Eva (Tilda Swinton), the killer’s mother, and her attempts to come to terms with what her son, Kevin, has done. Kevin, a very intelligent boy, was also from birth, neurologically disturbed. On his 16th birthday, Kevin locks several students in the school gymnasium and murders them with his bow. ‘Do you think anyone is ever going to love you now..’ Does he add ‘after what you’ve done.’? A long process of development and financing began in 2005, with filming commencing in April 2010. He opined that the film exploited but did not explore the fascination that "bad seed" children exert.

She said that Kevin had a hard time from birth. Some people have children and form a family; others relegate children to the margins of their lives, and create the difficult children they feared raising in the first place. No. He coddles Kevin and ignores Eva’s complaints as irrelevant and wrong. Mailman!

0000095187 00000 n Frustration, acceptance even, because he knew it would happen, so he retailiates, he eats before they go out, and what does she do? But…..psychopathy? It’s been a while. I think she was too lenient with him. Some may see him in the film as a truth-sayer, who can recognise that many families and communities never truly bond, they just go through the motions of happy families. Meh, too many of the commentators here are blindly missing the point. I tend to agree most with Abigail’s conjecture, that he was always looking for love from his mother.

I disagree with most of these posts. Eva speculates that he did this because he overheard her and Franklin discussing a divorce, and that he believed Franklin would get custody of him, thus denying him final victory over his mother. 0000106112 00000 n This isn’t a far reach, as (like Tracy Taub asserts in her comment) personality disorders — however rare — DO exist and require a combination of nature & nurture.

The film ended up earning $1,738,692 in America, and $5,754,934 internationally, for a total of $7,493,626. – THE MAIN REASON. That’s what Kevin wanted his mother to do to him. She has long suspected him to be either psychopathic or evil. My main question is regarding the relationship between Kevin … Eva’s supposed “coldness” amounts to a deficit in the over-performance of feeling and attachment demanded by the currently dominant emotional regime. Whether we like it or not, whether or not we are comfortable with the idea, there are people “born that way” when it comes to sociopathy or any of the range of personality disorders. ©2008-2014 FilmFather. He was a very disturbed person from the get go. 0000066031 00000 n I’ve come to largely disregard most “top film critics” opinions as have many I know. I personally loved the movie, it really makes you think , I have to say at the end , she finally realized she did in fact, love her son. [6] Production had not begun by 2007, though BBC Films renewed the adaptation rights early in the year. But in the final pages of the novel, it turns out our assumption is wrong. But it's impossible to imagine the deranging grief and guilt that the parents of the killers must experience, though the statement from Seung-Hui Cho's family in the wake of his murders at Virginia Tech offers a hint of that vast ocean. If you take a blank slate and project frustration and negativeness at it 24/7, Kevin is one potential result of that. 0000106570 00000 n It starred Madeleine Potter as Eva Katchadourian. 0000099933 00000 n 0000012158 00000 n I hadn't read the novel until one of the commenters on my blog suggested the book as a test case for how our popular culture might adapt or shy away from the theme of assassination. 0000004914 00000 n

Although it’s hard to pinpoint on who exactly should be blamed, I think the father should have been more open-minded concerning to the behaviors of his son that was already shown throughout his entire childhood. She sees who he truly is because it is a mirror image of herself. As a result of this excision of brand names which didn’t wish to be associated with its controversial subject matter, the film is marked by a kind of negative product placement. ", "Ramsay needs to shoot a film about Kevin", "Producer Says Tilda Swinton to Star in "Kevin," Adaptation of Lionel Shriver Novel", "Festival de Cannes – From 16 to 27 may 2012", "BBC News – Cannes gets talking about British Kevin drama", "BBC 7's website for the radio adaptation", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin&oldid=985646781, Articles needing additional references from October 2011, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 October 2020, at 03:13. She could provably pay her guilt by “loving him”, even when he had killed her husband and her daughter. I'm starting this topic because I recently got into a discussion about this on another sub and pretty much no one agrees with my interpretation of the movie at all, which is that mom is a psychopath. He wanted to take everything she had, everything she loved, and leave her with nothing. We know (or think we know) from the opening pages of the novel, that Kevin is a mass murderer. Abigail’s explanation doesn’t sit quite right with me, I took his “weakness” when sick as another manipulation of her emotions.



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