the meaning of tragedy

Summer 2022-04-20 09:01:40

The proposition of this film is very, very simple. The question is: what if there is such a bear child?
This kid's name is Kevin. It's okay to kill classmates like a rabbit. Then he went home and killed his daddy and sister to show you. He soon went to a juvenile prison, leaving you alone and being fanned by the whole society. mouth.

This story reminds me of [Confession] and [Boy A], but after thinking about it carefully, I still feel that it is impossible to inherit the past or inspire the future.

Kevin is by no means the kind of child who beats his mother's womb or the devil. He has no piercings, no brainless hairstyles, and likes to wear white shirts, T-shirts, etc., and the room is clean and there are no strange book and movie posters. In the film, his rebellion and mischief since he was a child are not very lethal. Even the left eye of his sister does not have any direct evidence that he really did it. The pattern of his troubles is so big, only in this house. The person who breaks the balance in the end is the father. If he is sent to serve as a soldier, it means that the game ends early, so what makes you miserable for a while turns into a lifetime of misery.

The big hug at the end really makes people feel a little relieved after being depressed for nearly two hours, BUT, if this story is true, after being transferred from a juvenile prison to an adult prison for a few years, Kevin can be released. Prison, but where is the way out for this child? Will society forgive him because of his little identification with his mother? That is obviously impossible, even Nietzsche has failed, and it is even more impossible with such an immature child alone. The end of the play, the audience with the last fault will also leave, and no one will care about the future.

So the proposition is transformed into: what if there is such a mother?

The obvious origin of the contradiction between eva and kevin's mother-son relationship is Oedipus, and even eva's clothes in the film are mostly ancient Greek-style wide-sleeved robes. In an unreasonable way, the teenager is trying to monopolize his mother's emotions. His father is a tool, his sister is also, and the whole society is. But eva is not a qualified mother from the first day, kevin is against her, she has been against kevin, since the child was not born, because it is not want to be but should to be, so the child also has doubts It's just that you don't love me so much, do you?

The whole film is full of this kind of sensitive pain nerves, all of eva's memories are entangled in it, it was happy in Spain, but it also hurts when I think about it, because it all started from there, red, all red , endless red.

Eva's strength is dramatic, but it can also be understood that she has honed her will after more than ten years of confrontation. The viewers may not meet the heroine's bloody life, but they all walk the same path, learning to grow up, learning to understand, learning to give up, learning to be a parent, and finally learning to live and die. When the dimensions of time and space are unpredictable, it is impossible to predict how many butterfly effects are waiting for you in this life. Maybe you and the piece of meat in your belly are deviated because of a hesitant look. Eva ironed it. The folds in my heart, until I finally had the courage to ask Kevin: why? But the boy was almost 18 by this time, and his face had scars from fighting or being beaten in prison.

That's the reality, it doesn't make any sense when it comes, and it's already over after you think about it. The only thing we can possibly do is to see what we look like earlier.

Everything has a cause and effect.

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Technically, Tilda Swinton is really a famous tool among actors, the role of eva The degree of completion is very good, and this woman can also be a fragile mess.

I personally feel that the soundtrack composed by Jonny Greenwood, who is tired of boiling kelp, is perfect, but the foreigner's understanding of "House of Flying Daggers" does have some formalism. (Tired boiled kelp=radio head, the name of the girlfriend from a magazine circle)

Not to mention the color, as a director, especially a female director, how important it is to have a personality. Lynne Ramsay has done a good job in this regard, but I don't know if she would be able to play so well if the next film she directed was not a film with so many excellent prerequisites. It is rare to see a director who knows how to restrain himself as soon as he debuts. Maybe this big British chick is number one.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin quotes

  • Eva: You don't look happy.

    Kevin: Have I ever?

  • Eva: So, the daddy bear plants his seed in the mommy bear and it grows into an egg.

    Kevin, 6-8 Years: Is this about fucking?

    Eva: Do you know what that means?

    Kevin, 6-8 Years: The boy puts his pee pee in the girls doo doo.