"What Happened to Kevin"

Vivien 2022-04-23 07:01:53

Children are an unfinished debt, and parents are an inescapable catastrophe.

Eva is not an irresponsible mother, but she became a mother when she was not ready, and her doubts and contradictions became the eternal shadow of sensitive Kevin, which turned into doubts and contradictions about his own existence; and what Kevin did For not only to prove his presence, in the habit of accumulating over time, he can only arouse her attention and concern by torturing and hurting Eva.

The film's three or more narrative lines outline a heartbreaking story, with irregular cuts, endless use of red, deliberate close-ups of facial features, and detail points before responding. Lynne Ramsay She does not overuse her usual cold shots, but uses image language to express the inner world of the characters and the inner communication between the characters, which increases her introspection.

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  • 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 factor, dazzling, as if walking in hell. Disturbing, a psychological thriller!

  • Kyle 2021-11-28 08:01:20

    Mom, I am your projection, your evil, what you don't know and don't want to admit. The color, light and shadow make people shudder.

We Need to Talk About Kevin quotes

  • Kevin: [Eva walks into the dining room, pleased to see that Kevin has changed into clothes more appropriate for his age - but then he turns around with a humorless grin and her mouth drops open in disgust when she sees that he is gnawing on a whole chicken, getting it all over his face] ... What? I was hungry!

    [laughs wickedly]

    Kevin: I'm a "growing boy".

  • Eva: So daddy and mommy were looking for him the whole night. And you know why we couldn't find him? Because Snuffles has gone to live in the garden! He's living in the garden now, with a whole bunch of new animal friends! So, they're having a big party tonight... with the chipmunks, and the squirrels, and the coons and they're eating nuts and berries...

    [suddenly Eva realizes in confusion that the water isn't properly draining down the sink because something is clogging it, implied to be Snuffles the guinea pig. Eva pours drain cleaner down the sink to corrode the "clog"]