It's too late to ask "why"

Laverna 2022-03-22 09:01:42

The mother in the film is a good planner, and the birth of her son Kevin seems to be her biggest mistake. She is good at planning and accustomed to execution. When she held baby Kevin high, but couldn't stop him from crying, she didn't think about why, and still insisted on raising, raising, raising again... as if expecting her hands The baby can suddenly "sensible" laugh; she tried to play ball with toddler Kevin, but the toddler didn't cooperate, no matter why, no matter what she wanted, she still threw the ball again and again according to her expected process, like Looking forward to the young child's compromise to give her a response; she proposed to go on a trip with the teenager Kevin, and planned to play golf and dinner, so the entertainment project was carried out in a streamlined manner. The windows have become water curtains, and I don’t ask my son if he still wants to dine out. He decides to go home and change clothes before going out in the rain... The whole film is very intuitive to show the pressure that the son puts on the mother, but the mother brings the pressure to the mother. The son's indifference is hidden in these details. It is no wonder that the son who is sensitive by nature always thinks that the mother is accustomed to him, not love. Because of this, the son can always see through his mother's intentions, and then use various unimaginable actions to precisely strike... This is revenge for his mother's "perfunctory", but Kevin didn't realize that he was somewhat the same as his mother. They always choose confrontation or patience as if nothing happened, but they never show weakness and never investigate the root cause. For some obedient dependence when he was sick and confused, his mother was like a child who got candy; when he asked "why" when visiting prison, his son was beaten back to his original shape, showing a little beast-like imitation. This mother and son always choose to point at each other with shields or spears, but they don't know that they could have thrown away their helmets and armour and talked together.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin quotes

  • [last lines]

    Eva: Why?

    Kevin: I used to think I knew. Now I'm not so sure.

    [pause]

    Prison guard: Time's up.

  • Franklin: Hey, Kev. Listen buddy, it's easy to misunderstand something when you hear it out of context.

    Kevin: Why would I not understand the context? I am the context.