We Need to Talk About Kevin Comments

  • Nadia 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    89/100, Ramsay's audio-visual skills are truly amazing: the use of a large number of shallow focus and virtual focus lenses has accumulated psychological anxiety, the use of light and shadow is quite "horrifying", the rapid panning is quite decisive, and the color is also very good. Reflecting the characters, the music is very interesting. Editing is like a key to breaking time and space, taking the camera into the spiritual realm. The strong stylized audio-visual highlights the perspective...

  • Mckenzie 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    The narrative is fluid, and the lines between memory and reality start in the middle and feel confusing. The beginning is great, but after sucking people in, I can't hold back. The story is too flat, and the "crisis of deep emotional crisis" and "mother's love and guilt for her son" in the synopsis are not presented at all. Maybe in the novel, but not in the movie. Tilda's acting skills are amazing, and her son's is handsome since...

  • Ludwig 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    For me, who emphasizes cause and effect, this movie is torture. There is no trace of the perverted behavior of the male protagonist. However, this kind of random action in life without any motivation is really scary. Maybe the hero is out of touch with reality, as he said, nothing makes sense. For example, you don't need to watch TV shows because the people on TV are actually watching you...

  • Claudie 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    A movie makes us ask ourselves: Are you sure you should have...

  • Monique 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    There's actually an ambush in the soundtrack! Swinton's bitter face is already half of the character. I believe that there is no love and hatred for no reason, so a mother cannot be completely innocent. She put herself on the opposite side of her son too early, she didn’t grasp the timing of opening and closing her eyes, she didn’t try enough, or two o’clock or another. Repaying grievances with virtue... Maternal love can't hold? Too challenging my...

  • Darren 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    It's not human, it's...

  • Ludie 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Totally Tilda Swinton's one-man show. But does this really fall into the category of social science discussions? Some people are inherently...

  • Immanuel 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    The movie shuttles wonderfully in different eyes of Swinton at different...

  • Jan 2022-03-28 09:01:02

    Nine years after "The Elephant", Cannes sees troubled teenagers again. Residual tomatoes, lingering in neon, overflowing jam, bloodstains from arrows, scary red everywhere. Close-up of disturbed fingers, sister losing her eyeballs, Kevin chewing lychees, camera defocused and non-linear narrative, weird soundtrack, blurred and depressing. Of course, there is also Tilda Swinton's pair of disappointed pupils, a natural psychological horror...

  • Hester 2022-03-28 09:01:02

    Elephant... great adventurer, woman who didn't pay attention to safety measures, mother who was restless, and then, tragedy. Editing is bone, Tilda's performance is meat, the truth behind the suspense is peeled off layer by layer like an onion, and the ending can't escape the choking eyes. Repeated red: tomatoes, ketchup, red paint, to the last blood, symbolizing desire and sin, the details are well laid out...

Extended Reading

We Need to Talk About Kevin quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Eva: Franklin, where are you? Pick up the goddamned phone!

  • Franklin: Kev, Mom had something that she wanted to tell you.

    Eva: [Eva looks appalled and despite her efforts she finds that this time, she is unable to fake any sort of love towards Kevin] I wanted to... thank you for calling the ambulance.

    Franklin: ...And?

    Eva: And I was concerned... that you might be feeling... RESPONSIBLE.

    Kevin: Why is that?

    Eva: [on the verge of snapping] Because you were SUPPOSED to be looking after her!

    Franklin: We just don't want you to blame yourself.

    Kevin: No. I don't... I mean I... I never said I did.

    Eva: ...She's going to need a GLASS EYE, Kevin.