It's all fucking Kevin

Emery 2022-03-23 09:01:48

Ambivalent attachment personality. As a baby, the attachment to the mother cannot be satisfied in time. She hopes to cry, and she feels angry because she is left out. She has not established a stable sense of security. The mother becomes the same source of pleasure and pain. Love and hate for the mother. coexist. This situation did not change in the later growth process and became Kevin's basic personality. The intensifying injury is Kevin's way of attaching himself to his mother.
When a child comes into this world, he is a blank slate, and what he grows up afterward is the masterpiece of his parents and the environment.

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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.