The last Wednesday in August is the annual folk traditional festival in Bugnoni, Spain, the Tomato Festival. On this day every year, tourists from all over the world have a tomato battle with the youth of the town. People were splashed with tomato foam from head to toe, as if it were a sea of red. A bucket full of tomato pulp was poured on Eva.
Eva was lifted and lowered by the men, and she lay in the sea of red, happy and exhausted.
Red, here represents carnival, is the warm atmosphere on behalf of the celebration.
Then, when the camera rolls around, it's a red interior, white curtains, white dishes, candles, leftover food, tin foil, jars of sleeping pills, Eva on the bed, they have lost their original color and are covered with a red filter , is also red, but here it looks weird and terrifying.
After Eva woke up, she felt very strange, so she put on her shoes and turned the door handle. She came outside and found that her house had been splashed with red paint, and the glass of the car beside the door was also splashed with red paint, and Seeing all this, she didn't seem angry, and for a moment, she returned to the house.
Inside the house, it was her daughter Coria, who was having breakfast. Coria turned her head and had an eye patch on her left eye. Her eyes were hurt.
Eva buried her head in the sink, and in the water, her son Kevin's face briefly appeared.
At that time, her husband, Franklin, held her daughter while playing with her, asking her what she wanted for her birthday. The two danced happily. Eva, who was standing on the side, was infected by the happiness of the two and laughed. Kevin came to his sister with a large black bag. Franklin hugged his son, rubbed his hair, and told him to remember to eat breakfast as he walked, and Kevin took a few deep breaths. At that time, he was about to do something big.
Eva wiped the red paint off the glass of the car with newspaper, and today she is going to interview for a job.
Before that, she had a passionate career as a professional woman working as editor-in-chief of a travel magazine, her dream was to travel the world. And now, because of the difficulties in life, she is sitting in the office with sunglasses and waiting. The female boss who interviewed her asked her if she could type the file, and if so, the job was yours. Eva looked happy when she walked out of the office, and the two women approaching immediately stopped her from smiling. The woman slapped her with a hand and said, I curse you to suffer in **, you ***** *. Eva didn't protest or refute this. A passerby saw it and wanted to help her call the police. She said, no, it's nothing, it's my fault.
Eva drove home, and after entering the door and turning on the light, she saw the red paint on her face that she didn't know when, and wiped it. Went upstairs to sleep.
Eva took the afternoon off to see her jailed son, Kevin.
Kevin followed the officer into the visiting room. The mother and son sat face to face without saying a word until the visiting time was over and Eva left the prison.
Eva is an independent woman who loves to travel the world, she doesn't want children, and Franklin wants a more complete family. In an accident, Eva became pregnant. She became a pregnant woman without a job. She was learning how to have children all day long. In a group of expectant mothers, she did not feel at ease. When she heard the noise of the children, she only felt irritable. Unbeknownst to him, Franklin was alone in the joy of welcoming the new members. After Kevin was born, Eva picked up the crying Kevin and wanted to make him laugh and make him stop crying, but her method never worked. A mother who doesn't know how to take care of her children. Eva felt physically and mentally exhausted.
At the noisy construction site, Kevin's cry was drowned out by the sound of the machine. At this time, Eva's face showed a sigh of relief and regained a peaceful expression.
Eva tells Franklin about her pain.
Franklin disagreed, and even felt that Eva was impatient with Kevin, and Franklin had not noticed the strangeness of his wife at that time. I think that soon new mothers will be overwhelmed when faced with a new baby, and they will be mentally exhausted due to lack of sleep. At this time, as husbands, they should share more and understand their wives' feelings, instead of using a kind of , you haven't done well enough, that's why you feel the hard tone to disdain a mother's efforts. (Furthermore, the new mother is an independent professional woman like Eva, she did not want it, and I think her husband has a tendency to do it on purpose, so he should take this responsibility even more)
Over the weekend, Eva took advantage of the red paint spilled on the house.
She went to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities. In the supermarket, she saw a woman who let go of the cart and hid behind. When she went to the cashier to check out, the cashier opened a box of eggs she bought, and all twelve eggs were smashed, and the woman before appeared fiercely in front of Eva, Eva took out the money, Say, I want all of that.
When she got home, Eva fry the eggs, picking out the broken shells as she ate them.
"He's a bad boy, isn't he, but he has nothing wrong with him."
The three-year-old Kevin is reticent and indifferent, and has an attitude of onlookers and non-participation in everything Eva teaches him. Eva thinks whether Kevin has autism. no problem.
Eva threw the ball to Kevin, Kevin just looked at his mother, Eva didn't give up and tried two or three times, Kevin took it once, she was very happy, here, in Kevin's eyes for me A hunting feeling, he just wanted to see how long his mother could tolerate. After that, Kevin didn't respond.
Eva came home from get off work. It was Halloween. People were walking on the street and approaching Eva's car window from time to time. Eva was afraid and immediately drank a glass of wine after returning home. At this time, the children knocked on the door and shouted: "Trick or treat if you don't give candy." Eva opened the cupboard and refrigerator, but couldn't find it anywhere. In a hurry, she pressed the light switch. In the dark, she thought of Kevin. She once said to Kevin, "Mom was very happy before Kevin was born, and now my mother wakes up every morning, wishing she was still in France." This scene made Franklin see . Later, he proposed to move to another villa area that was more spacious and suitable for children to play for Kevin's childhood. Franklin blamed all the reasons for the intimacy and disharmony between mother and son on his wife. For his son, he only felt pity.
Eva went out to buy lunch and met Soweto, who was in a wheelchair, and Soweto told her that the doctor said he could walk soon and told her to take care of herself. Eva looked at him and remembered again when he was sitting on a stretcher, covered in blood.
Franklin is playing a game with Kevin. Eva had time to pack her things, and looked at the photos she took during her travels and those plane tickets. She looked at the map on the wall, thought about it, and decided to decorate the small room. Kevin disapproved after seeing it, but Eva told him that everyone needs their own space, and this is my space.
Eva hung up the phone and went back to the small room. Kevin destroyed everything she had decorated. He took the toy gun filled with paint and smiled at the startled and struggling Eva. Eva took the toy from his hand. The gun was thrown to the ground angrily and smashed. After Franklin comforted Kevin, he told Eva that Kevin was sorry for that, he just wanted to make the room look special. But this did not convince Eva.
"Remember how this scar came from? This is the most sincere thing you have ever done." In the detention center, Kevin touched the scar on his arm and said to Eva. That was Eva's first time on Kevin.
Five year old (probably) Kevin didn't receive his mother's education, he had no problem with intelligence, and Eva was worried because he was still wearing a diaper, Kevin pooped in the diaper again, Eva thought he did it on purpose, Anger threw him to the ground, his arm was broken, and at the hospital, the doctor told Eva, "Your son is very brave." After returning home, Kevin told Franklin that he fell down accidentally. Eva did not deny his words. Franklin comforted her and said that it is not your fault, and you cannot look at him all the time. At night, the husband and wife were sitting downstairs. Eva was about to confess to her husband, but the sound of a flush toilet came from upstairs. Franklin was very surprised and said to his wife, "Great, how did you let him do it?" Eva was confused at the same time, and swallowed what she had to say. She went upstairs and knocked on Kevin's door. She didn't understand the reason for her son's transformation. She entered the room and kissed his son's face.
It must not be said that the child is a sensitive hunter. Because of this secret, Eva could not refuse his request. When she wanted to follow her own wishes, Kevin touched the scar to signal to his mother, and recalled the lie he and her weaved.
Eva expresses her worries to Franklin. Franklin once again defended Kevin's actions, he was just a child, a lovely little boy. He couldn't see Eva's pain, and he didn't realize the mistakes in Kevin's behavior. In family relationships, I found that a common problem is that parents compare the level of love their children have for themselves. Parents are like a pair of competitors. The side who gets more is more tolerant of any behavior of the child, and feels that he is the side of the child and has an obligation to defend him. Even take a schadenfreude attitude towards the side that has been left out.
Eva is pregnant again. Compared to the first time, this time she did it on purpose. Daughter Coria was a lively child, and Eva was happy and comforted by the birth of her. Eva's full attention began to focus on Coria.
Later, when Kevin got sick, he said sorry to his mother who cleaned up the vomit, and Eva shook her head, saying, it's not your fault, and took his hand. At night, she read the fairy tale book "Robinson Crusoe" to Kevin, and Kevin took the initiative to show his favor, lying in his mother's arms, listening to her say: "He took out an arrow and fastened it on the string. , shot out again..."
Halfway through, Franklin comes in, Kevin lets him out, and tells his mother to read on. Eva felt very happy and smiled at her husband, while Franklin closed the door in frustration. In order to win back his son's love, he went to buy children's bows and arrows for Kevin. Eva and Kevin's relationship is back to freezing point.
Eva is painting Kevin's bedroom dark blue on the second floor. From the window she saw two salesmen in suits approaching her door and ringing the bell. They ask, ma'am, do you know where your afterlife will be spent? Eva replied that she knew that she would go straight to hell, cursed and tormented forever.
Eva's company is holding a Christmas party. One of the male colleagues invites Eva to dance. Eva shakes her head and refuses. The male colleague whispers in her ear, you have any right to be arrogant, stinky**. Do you think anyone else will like you? Eva left the company after hearing that. She saw a mother and daughter on the street thinking of Coria.
On Christmas day, Kevin tied his sister Coria with ribbons. She told her mother that it was a game, and rushed over to hug her brother and said, Kevin, you are my best friend. Kevin instructed his sister to help him get drinks and vacuumed her sister's hair, which Eva was very angry with.
Eva and Coria walked down the street hand in hand, in the window of the bookstore, with a picture of Eva, and Coria told her mother Kevin was there. After returning home, Eva asked Kevin if he went to the bookstore. Kevin denied it. She invited Kevin to eat out with her on Friday. With a rare smile on his face, Kevin agreed.
Eva and Kevin went out to play mini golf. Eva was very concerned about Kevin's clothes. Before dinner, she proposed to go home and let Kevin change his clothes. They went to the restaurant for dinner. After returning home, Kevin was eating by himself, and Eva was not satisfied with it. The two went to the restaurant. Eva was eating dinner and Kevin was playing with bread. Eva wants to know about his school life, but Kevin doesn't accept his mother's questions, thinking they're stupid, idiots, and makes fun of his mother's sassiness.
Like all mothers, they are curious about their son's inner world. Facing the uncooperative son, she had to choose the way of peeping. Eva sneaked into the room while her son was not at home. She wanted to find out if Kevin had a DVD in his possession, and later found a CD that said I Love You, and that was Kevin was going to give her a virus. Eva goes to Kevin and asks why he did it and what the point is. Kevin said, there's no point -- that's the point.
Eva spoke to her mother on the phone, pretended to have a visitor, and wished her a Merry Christmas. On her table, there was no Christmas dinner, just a plate of sandwiches and a glass of wine.
Kevin's bow and arrow became more and more accurate with practice. Franklin bought Kevin a bigger bow and arrow as his Christmas present. Kevin was very happy. Coria's gift was a guinea pig. At night, the guinea pig's cage was opened. Coria told Eva that she had closed the door and thought Kevin said she was stupid for a reason. Eva had to comfort her. And together with her husband, they searched for the whereabouts of the guinea pigs in the house. The next day, she had to tell Coria that he had gone to the garden to live with his friends.
The sewer is blocked, Eva takes out the dredging agent, but forgets to put it back, and Coria hurts her eyeball and has to wear a fake eyeball. She was in the hospital with her husband, and Eva insisted that Kevin did it, and Franklin told her, you should see a doctor. In order to take care of Kevin's emotions, Franklin asked Eva to apologize to Kevin. Facing Eva's harshness towards Kevin, Franklin couldn't bear it any longer, and he decided to divorce Eva. When the two were discussing this matter, Kevin happened to hear it.
On the weekend, the courier delivered a package with a handful of locks inside. Franklin asked Kevin what it was for, and he said it was for schoolwork.
On Monday, Kevin went to school with his bow and lock, locked every exit, picked up the bow and arrow and started what he called a major event - a horrific, brutal killing. Outside the school gate, the police saw off the lock, and Kevin walked out from inside. Eva stood outside and looked at him, thinking that he was another person. The medical staff carried out the corpses with arrows from the school. That night was terrifying and desperate. Eva drove home and saw the curtains fluttering. In the courtyard were the corpses of Coria and Franklin, who were also shot by Kevin. She didn't understand what happened to Kevin. And is it her fault?
At the end of the film, Eva is decorating the room for Kevin, and the red paint outside the house has also been cleaned up. It looks normal and everything is normal. It seemed that she was ready how to face her son.
She drove to the juvenile detention center.
Kevin's head is shaved and he looks at Eva in horror, suffering in prison. He looked to his mother for help. When he is about to become an adult, he will be handed over to an adult prison. Eva asks him, is he nervous? Kevin asked her what kind of place it was. Eva didn't answer him directly, just said, you haven't been living a pretty cool life all the time.
"Two years, enough time to think. I want you to tell me what you are for."
"I thought I knew before, but now I'm not sure."
"Time is up."
At the end of the film, Eva hugs Kevin tightly, and Kevin doesn't seem to reject his mother's hug. She walked to the exit, and a patch of white at the exit hinted at the little relief in Eva's inner world.
In "We Need to Talk About Kevin", Eva and Franklin are incompetent parents. Eva feels that she has been deprived of her freedom because she has to take care of the children. Wen's infinite tolerance caused him to lose empathy in the later period. He only paid attention to his own feelings and could not understand the harm he caused to other people's/mother/sister. The waywardness in Kevin's character is the result of both.
In "Round Table School", Mr. Li Meijin has analyzed several murders. For details, you can go to the ideal APP to check. She once said, "Several important points for children to manage before the age of six are to restrain self-will, prevent depression, learn to control, learn to be patient, prevent selfishness, and experience setbacks. You must also be good at discovering your own educational background from your child's attitude. The problem is, sometimes he treats you in whatever way you educate him. If you respect him, he respects you; if you don't respect him, he doesn't respect you."
"I taught my daughter for 20 years how to protect herself, but you haven't taught your son for a second not to hurt others."
This is a passage that appeared on the Internet after the Honggutan murder in Nanchang. The deceased disappeared, and there was no way of knowing why he was killed, and similar murders continued. The crime age is getting lower, a 13-year-old boy in Dalian killed a 10-year-old girl. Seeing such incidents will cause suspicion and fear to human beings. Those innocent lives, they are walking on the street, chatting with friends about yesterday's interesting events or tomorrow's activities, no one can predict what will happen to them.
How did those shadows that waited for an opportunity formed? And those of us who are still lucky enough to survive in the world should think about how to block the formation of shadows.
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