We Need to Talk About Kevin

A double starch, dark pressed movie that gives profound insight from the inadvertent antagonist in America's ugliest societal conundrum. A course and unforgiving ripple effect that will leaves your mouth open leaving the theater.

My mouth dropped to the floor when i saw this had a 7.6 rating?! Are you all serious?! I watched this movie with a friend and ended up laughing and throwing her looks at how ridiculous the whole idea was.. We SO wanted to leave but didn't want to waste our money really - we had our popcorn we needed to eat too haha.. It was slow, incredibly boring and really strangely hysterical to watch Tilda just constantly staring catatonically into the camera lens - (so close you can see her pores) as he film maker aimlessly walks around backwards camera poised.. There's no connection to be found with the characters and it switches you off right from the start in the random tomato fight! What a joke.. Seriously not worth a minute in front of the screen..

This is the story of a boy-child born bereft of a social conscience. He is born psychopathic and as he ages his psychopathy becomes worse as he can add a certain emotional stings and layered barbs. It's his lack of shame that grabs hard. He has no problem pooping his pants no matter how old he is because it slays. His enjoyment in making his mother deal with the mess way overtakes any embarrassment he might feel even though he's approaching double-digits in age. His acting-out gets worse and worse until it becomes too much. It's the world's reaction to him, but mostly to her, the mother, that isn't dealt with clearly - that muddies things up a bit for me.

This film was a flat, lifeless mess. No attempt was made to allow us to get to know the characters, much less understand their actions and motivations. Almost nothing happened throughout the entire movie, other than Tilda Swinton staring blankly at all around her. I felt completely bored and unmoved throughout the whole thing. This is the kind of movie you could watch with the sound off and not miss anything. If you are interested in finding out about the motivations of a young boy who kills his classmates, I suggest you read the truly amazing book, 'Nineteen Minutes' by Jodi Piloult. Now THAT should be made into a film. Just not by Lynne Ramsey! How this managed to win awards I will never know. Do not waste your time!!

We need to talk about Kevin is a side up psychological thriller. John C. Reilly is in the film Butch gives us a notoriety not sure about the other characters but it was a very good independent film I highly recommend this one

CONTAINS SPOILERS: A tedious and drawn out misery-flick. It would have been a great picture (great subject matter and actors) but for trying to be all things at once. The father is so absurdly dim, insensitive and biased as to belong in a comedy sketch. The convoluted plot and mish mash of devices (the red paint, the random guy in a wheelchair, the tomato wrestling at the beginning, the dead father and daughter at the end, the obfuscation over how the daughter loses her eye) detract from the story progression and from the intense Swinton and the unsettling Ezra, who made the film worthwhile to sit through (I nearly walked out, that tedious was the first half).

Swinton plays Eva, mother of a son with a devious diabolical mind. The film continuously jumps to other timelines while maintaining an overall chronological story arc. It succeeds on many fronts in displaying the frustrations of the mother and evilness of the son who plays out his mother against his father. There's a genuine art house feel to the bold way it is filmed and edited which feels very unpolished with continuous visual hints towards the conclusion of the story using easy to catch symbolism. Swinton seems to be underplaying her role which, as fan of her previous work, was a bit disappointing but doesn't hinder the film in any way. A typical art house film recommended for lovers of the genre. 65/100