Out of all the movies that I’ve seen that try to investigate the question, “why?” this one did a really good job at leaving the question up to the audience. Having watched the trailer beforehand I felt the same feelings of suspense and anticipation that I felt during the movie. The whole time I wanted to know what was wrong with Kevin and after watching we never really find out the underlying reason which I think makes the movie so good. I would have been kind of mad if they told us why. This movie was another one of those movies that does something emotional to you and left me in my seat for a while trying to figure out the reasons behind Kevin’s behavior. As far as form and content go, this movie seemed to be a perfect example that these two go hand in hand. I thought the film did a great job at communicating so many themes and the way they portrayed this with the bright vivid colors and nonlinear storytelling was very unique. The colors played a huge role as the bright red in the beginning carried through the whole film symbolically whether it was in the strawberry jam sandwiches, the red wine, the outfits, the paint, the walls...etc. I also thought the red paint splattered only on the windshield of the mother’s car was pretty representative to the fact that she couldn’t see the reasons behind Kevin’s behavior and was blinded to the series of traumatic events that led up to the biggest incident. It seemed like the mom seemed to be the only one to really realize that something was wrong with him from the start but didn’t quite know how to handle it because she didn’t know who to question or why it was going on. She was seen as mostly helpless throughout the movie trying to understand things. Even the guy at her new job was showing her how to work the computer. She couldn’t answer any questions on her own. I also found it shocking that Kevin killed everyone in his family except his mother and felt that he maybe he kept her alive purposely in order to let her suffer the most. The ending gave me goose bumps when all that the mother wants is the answer of why he did it and he says “I used to think I knew, but now I’m not so sure.” I thought this was appropriate and had something to do with something Ezra Miller said earlier on in the film about the CD virus. After the CD incident he mentions to his mother “there is no point and that’s the point.” I think another good ending would have been if he had said this line when answering his mother’s question or even a simple “no” would have added to the complexity of the movie. Although I couldn’t stay for the panel discussion I would have really enjoyed talking about Kevin and hearing what the speakers had to say. Overall, I think this movie was brilliantly put together and really elicits strong emotions from whoever watches it.
THE DEEP BLUE SEA I did not know much about this film before I went to see it. I was already planning on going to watch We Need To Talk About Kevin, and I had nothing else to do, so I decided to hit the Cosford early and see what else was playing. It is pretty strange that I don’t like a film; it is even more peculiar that I feel the urge to leave the theater. But, I have got to be honest, this is one of the most boring uninteresting films I have ever seen. I had a hard time being awake and the only thing I wanted was for this to be over soon. I didn’t like the plot and I didn’t like any performance in particular.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN I was planning to go see this movie before I watched the trailer on class. I usually don’t like scary movies, I don’t mind being a little scared during the film, but I hate leaving the theater and feel terrified, and what I hate the most are those movies that make me loose sleep at night. The trailer stroked me as if We Need to Talk About Kevin, was going to be another terrifying thriller, bur for my surprise, and this time, for my good surprise, this film was not that scary, it was a little creepy but that I can handle. Ezra Miller performance was outstanding. Before this film, I’ve never seen this guy, but I am positive that he will be a very very renowned actor in the future, I dare to say that he will be a big movie star. He was creepy at all times, but he managed himself to inspire in me (the viewer) a little sympathy from time to time. Tilda Swinton’s performance was really good too. Her interaction with Kevin as kid, and Kevin as a teenager evolve, but not in the way any relationship between a mother and a boy/guy develops. In her eyes you could see her restless soul. She was worried and nervous most of the time. She knew Kevin was not OK, she knew what he was capable of but she also knew she couldn’t do anything about, and in some level she felt responsible. The ending was one of my favorite parts. It was a very bittersweet moment, where for the first time Kevin is vulnerable, he is afraid, he doesn’t have a plan. Both of the brake the walls they built during their whole life and hug. This scene gave me chills. It’s hard for me to put it into words, but I just felt something weird, I felt connected to both of them, I wanted to help them.
We need to talk about Kevin: Till now, I still haven’t figured out what is answer of the final scene. Why Kevin killed his Dad and sister. Did he just want to leave his mother there to watch every tragedy happen in front of her. Maybe, being alive was the most miserable thing for Eva. There were three storylines in this film, one was telling us about the childhood of Kevin, one was telling how Eva cleaned her house that was covered by red paint and another one was telling how Eva was living in reality by herself. Actually there was no violent scene in the film, but the color red was metaphors of Kevin’s violent incidents. In my opinion, Kevin’s behavior was caused by Eva’s pregnancy depression. It was very normal that babies always cry when they didn’t know how to talk and express their feeling. However, Eva thought that Kevin was tortured her, so she even wanted to hear the noise from construction rather than to hear Kevin crying. As time went by, Kevin became weirder and weirder. So, I think, why Kevin behaved like this was because Eva looked after him with spitefulness and depression. After Kevin grew up, Eva got another daughter, who made Kevin hate his Mum even much. After Kevin killed his sister and Dad, Eva was living all the way by herself, dissocial and lonely. She bear all the mistakes Kevin had made and left. I still don’t know what made Kevin be an evil. Although the story is miserable and horror, the background music is very cheerful. I like this kind of new horror movies, which are actually telling the sad stories but with cheerful background and colors.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is an uncomfortable movie to watch. The first half hour is eerie and unsettling. The cinematography is schizophrenic and develops a sense of paranoia. There are abrupt fade outs and long, uncomfortable shots that help us understand Eva’s anxiety. The music is also disquieting; there is the usual ominous thriller music along with shockingly uplifting music that contradicts but simultaneously complements the disturbing narrative. The opening minutes of the film are meant to shock the audience into questioning why Eva is ostracized and shamed by her community. The film gradually reveals that it is because of a horrific crime committed by her son, Kevin. The rest of the film builds up to the crime’s revelation, while developing the characters of Eva and Kevin. Kevin develops from a demon child to a teenager with obvious signs of antisocial personality disorder. He also has a subtle Oedipal complex; the disturbing masturbation scene (in which he breaks the fourth wall) with his mother is evidence enough, but one can also interpret his vendetta towards his mother as a misaligned cry for her attention (and physical love). His relationship with his father is forcefully artificial, as if he’s trying to restrain his hatred towards Franklin for copulating with Eva. From the beginning, misbehavior/destruction becomes the easiest way for Kevin to grab his mother’s attention. The massacre at the end is his magnum opus to her, inspired by the Robin Hood story she read to him as a child. Eva also develops from an enigmatic woman to a resilient mother who is forced to bear the sins of her firstborn child. Although she had genuine hatred towards him as a child, she grew to love him because he was so much like her. His evil nature originates from her.
This film’s story is about an old stuff which a wife crushed on another young man and wanted to divorce with her husband. The scenes were normally simple, many things happened in a bedroom. This film used to develop the story from the views of the wife, about her views of this love triangle. At the beginning of this film, the wife was taking some medicines to commit suicide because her lover forgot her birthday. Birthday was not really a big matter, her lover just got mad because she was so sensitive. I felt that the wife loved the young man so much, but I didn’t feel that the young man loved her as much as she did. Her husband loved her wife unconditionally, no matter she had affair with other man. This film was surrounded by old English atmosphere that was comprised by a lot of background violin music and some simple but classic furnishes. The filmmaker used to apply medium shoot to emphasize those actors’ expression and acting. The Deep Blue Sea was demonstrating how women struggle in a deep blue sea-like love that was unknown and lost. Rachel Weisz was a very good actor, who let us feel the same way as she did in the film. It was, when a woman couldn’t love someone anymore, the only way was to leave and to free everything, which were her love for the young man and her husband’s love for her. Honesty, I don’t like this kind of film, because it is really an old fashion story. Anyway, the actors are not bad.
Crazy. Weird. Scary. Emotional. I felt everything while I watched “We need to talk about Kevin”. Due to a suggestion of my friend, I haven’t informed myself about the movie. I didn’t have any expectations; except for one: that is a movie like nothing I have seen before. And it is. It’s unique and evokes feelings I never felt in a movie theatre before.
The story is about a mother and her son. The whole movie is a reflection of her mind, so, everything makes sense for her. The story isn’t in a chronological order nor does any ordinary storytelling way exist. One can’t find any pattern between past, present and future. Only with the length of Eva’s (Tilda Swinton) hair, one can assume in which time the scene is set. The viewer undergoes with Eva an extreme change in her life and tries to get some sense of her obviously broken mind.
This terrible event is caused by her son Kevin (played by Ezra Miller in the teenage age). Since she has given birth to him, she somehow rejects him and feels that there is something wrong with him. However, she never talks about it in much detail with her husband or psychologists. Over the years, she just let Kevin do mean things to her without much struggling against it. However, this makes her remarkable for Kevin. Therefore, she wasn’t killed by him in his massacre. He doesn’t want to kill his audience. He wants to hurt and punish her even more with that.
The storyline is remarkable, and there is no happy end in that movie. But, I even more liked the performances of the actors. I felt that Eva was heading to a nervous breakdown. She looked as she was shocked all the time. In contrast, Kevin was funny and charming with others, but showed his “evil” personality only to his mother by not speaking with her, doing things she has forbidden etc. With these outstanding performances, one got entry in the weird and unconformable world of Eva. And felt emotions and suspense, not every movie can create. For me, no movie has created them so far.
When I think about London, I imagine luxury, royals, and Minis driving on the wrong side. However, “The Deep Blue Sea” doesn’t show this London. It goes back to the time after World War II. It describes a dirty, outworn London with depressive figures, who lost their sense in life. Three of them are Hester (Rachel Weisz), Freddie (Tom Hiddelston) and William (Simon Russell Bale). The film perfectly delivers this depressive and dark atmosphere to the audience. But, it does nothing more.
Hester is caught by her love-triangle with her old husband William and the young and attractive Freddie. However, she can’t let go of either one of them. William stands for safety and intelligence, whereas Freddie symbolizes adventure and desire. Hester decides to have an affair with Freddie and live on as usual. However, William gets to know this and splits up with her. However, this doesn’t mean the love-triangle ends. Every person is somehow broken. Hester can’t get enough of Freddie. She is obsessed by him and tries to commit suicide after he forgets her birthday. Freddie, a former RAF pilot, sees no sense in his life after the war ended. He’s helpless to find a new path for his life. William is unhappy with his mother who insults Hester every time she sees her. He is disappointed with Hester, too. But, he can’t stop loving her. So, everyone is doomed and depressed in the film and tries to find a way, to get along without revealing the misery.
Yes, the audience can feel these depressions due to the perfectly made atmosphere. However, the movie is too slow to touch anyone. The dialogues and characters’ acts are unnecessary drawn out. I was bored after a while, because there was no progress at all. Sure, it’s fascinating to get in the head of Hester who tries to figure out what to do with her life. But, with this tempo and non-inspirational camera work, I can’t like this movie. It didn’t entertain me, although there was potential to do so.
Eva has deep love for traveling. Before the accident, she worked in a travel agency. And later, she found a job in another travel agency. She only shows her sincere smile when she pastes maps and tourist souvenirs in the room of the new house. Through her memories, we can see her crazy moment at Spain Tomato Festival when she was young and her freedom and romance in love. However, all things are changed by the unexpected visit of Kevin. When Eva sees her belly which is more and more round in the mirror, she looks like not so happy. When she listens to exciting experiences shared by other pregnant women, she even can not wait for feeing away. After the birth of the child, Eva’s smirk can not stop crying of the baby. She feels so freaked that she pulls the baby carriage to the side of the construction site and let the electric drilling sound cover the crying sound to ask for a moment of liberation. Eyes of passers are filled with question about Eva’s action. In the whole process of raising Kevin, Eva shows no joy in being a mother. The mother and the child often have no talks to each other. When both of them go outside together, Eva on the one hand tries to be close to her son, on the other hand shows her look of “getting it over with”. Once, Eva rebuked Kevin and said “Mommy was happy before widdle Kevin came along, you know that? Now Mommy wakes up every morning and wishes she was in France”. This scenario is intersected in more and more urgent knocking sound by children dressing up as ghosts. The accountability to Eva is self-evident.
How to deal with the so called unexpected pregnancy? Is it appropriate to let a mother give birth to child without preparation or even with inimical mood? The punishment to both sides is over the top. However, in the story, the punishment is not only to both sides. When Eva cherished Celia, compared with preparation for her pregnancy to Kevin, her preparation for her pregnancy to Celia is more sufficient. After the birth of Celia, Eva looked like a normal mother amusing Celia in her arms happily. When we recall the moment when she gives birth to Kevin, the father embraces the child in his arms, while Eva just sits on the bed with no expression. This moment may be the miniature of relationships between the child and the mother, namely Eva has normal mother-and-daughter relationship with Celia but has nothing to do with Kevin. Before the birth of younger sister, the dialogue between the mother and the son makes people hurt. Kevin says” Just cause you’re used to something doesn’t mean you like it. You’re used to me.” However, Eva does not refute at all. It is no wonder that when Eva says “I love you", the son does not believe. Compared with superficial rebellious characteristics of the son, the violent of the mother is more horrible to me. Over the years, Eva plays a role of mother in front of Kevin, however, she never becomes a real mother. She can not understand rebellious characteristics of her son. She also thinks that her son will never be conscious of her aloofness. On the contrary, the child just looks the aloofness in the eye but remember it the heart.
In the whole film, the scenario where Kevin feels sick is the most harmonious scenario about relationship between the mother and the son. The expression of Kevin’s aspiration for mother’s love at ordinary times is unacceptable. When Kevin falls sick, he just looks like an ordinary child lying in front of the mother and listening to stories and letting the father away. Eva feels very happy and smiles, and Kevin stares at Eva as a persons who looks at an unrequited lover. While Kevin is recovered, the stubborn Kevin that we can not understand comes back again.
In the whole film, red color can be seen in each scenario, such as tomato ketchup, apple, candle, paint, red gate of the gymnasium and red wine in the cup when Eva feels depressed. In the supermarket, Eva stands in front of rows of tomato cans, making people think of the dream where people splash tomato ketchup onto her body at the beginning of the film. Red color in this film represents accusation to her. Eva’s desperate paint washing seems her washing of guilty.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a difficult film to watch. It's simultaneously captivating and haunting: it makes you squirm with the knowledge that something terrible will happen, but still draws you in and makes you want to know the details of this unspoken horrible tragedy. The whole film is told from Eva (Tilda Swinton), the mother's point of view, and you can truly see the confusion, fear, heartbreak, and defeat flashing across her face in every scene. Tilda Swinton does more with just her eyes in a single scene than most other actors do in an entire movie. She was the film's saving grace for me. Without her performance to draw me in, I think the movie would have been too difficult to watch. With her, it was a stunning portrayal of depression, fear, and failure, leaving the audience wondering: is evil born or raised?
When the movie began I had absolutely no idea what was going on, and couldn’t make any ties into what it had to do with the plot, especially right after seeing the trailer for the movie. Once the plot began to unfold however It all started to make sense. I really liked the cinematography and production of the movie. I thought the director did a good job with not having the movie take place in chronological order, but instead, skipping to the end and middle in the beginning and the beginning in the middle and end of the movie. I really like action/horror movies and this movie kept me interested throughout. The scenes were really intense and graphic and it kept my attention. During the preview, I was unsure of how I would like the movie, because I couldn’t picture John C Reilly starring in anything besides a comedy, but he actually did a very good job, along with all the rest of the actors. The actors that played Kevin were a perfect fit for the role, and same with the mother. Personally I thought this was the best movie I’ve seen since being in the class. It was never slow moving, and the smart-alec cruel hearted Kevin character always kept me drawn in to the action.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a film that I will recommend to all of my friends. The story line was intriguing and relevant and I couldn't take my eyes away for a second. I liked the use of the color red throughout the film, and how it was splashed throughout the mother's life. I feel that this symbolized her constant attempts to wash away her son's sins, and in turn the sins she feels she committed. I feel the color red was all over her hands because she feels responsible for Kevin's actions, she feels that she created this monster. And throughout the film she is attempting to scrape away her guilt, sins, and his actions. This movie was like a script of how a serial killer is born to me, and it was a bit creepy. I think that one thing that truly showed how powerful this movie is, was that the entire theater sat quietly afterward. There wasn't the usual whispers about the movie or talking about what people are doing next. The theater was silent and still staring at the screen for a few seconds, then everyone made their way out of the theater still maintaining their general silence though. This to me speaks a great deal towards both the shock at what Kevin actually did and the power and emotion the film portrayed to the audience.
I had no idea what to expect going into the film, We Need to Talk About Kevin. The suspenseful thriller pleasantly surprised me. The film was adapted from the fictional novel by Lionel Shriver. Tilda Swinton stars as Kevin’s mother and was outstanding. The movie was told from her point of view and shows her in present day dealing with Kevin’s murders. We see Kevin’s childhood and how things spiraled out of control through flashbacks. John C. Reilly played Kevin’s father. It was very interesting to see him playing a serious role like this one, which is the opposite of his usual roles in stupid comedies.
The film is largely centered on the relationship between Kevin and his mother. It was very uncomfortable to watch. It shows people that not every family relationship is as it seems. This relationship pushes this idea to the extreme. I really liked how throughout the movie it hinted at some tragedy at the end, but never gave away what happens. A lot of things in this movie were left a little confusing or unanswered. After viewing the film, I was left wondering why Kevin decided to kill his father and little sister along with the students at his school. Also at the end, Kevin admits that he was not really sure why he did what he did. In the end, I really enjoyed this film and would definitely recommend it to everyone.
We Need to Talk About Kevin was a great movie when it comes down to keeping you on your toes. even though I'm not one for movies that jump around in time, which is my only complaint about the movie, I can see how it is necessary to this movie to make it out to its fullest. at first in the movie it was hard to keep track of what happened when and where but near the middle of the movie i had a good grasp on what fit where and it made the movie much more interesting once i figured that out. it was also interesting in the story line when the mother is the only one to notice something off about Kevin and is told she is wrong but after her son had performed the evil deed she is blamed and many people hate her for it. those that are left for the most part don't even want to talk to her. whats ironic is the only person to talk to her and treat her as if it wasn't her fault was one of the victims of her son's rampage. all in all it was a interesting movie to watch at the time.
The Deep Blue Sea: The film "The Deep Blue Sea," is about a woman named Hester, the young wife of a High Court Judge. Unsatisfied in her loving her unpassionate marriage, she turns to a handsome former RAF pilot and begins and affair with him. While the film centers on a single day in Hester's life, the day that she commits suicide, the audience also sees how unhappy she is with her life as a whole. Hester does find passionate in her romance with the pilot, but he does not love her the way that she loves him and is never quite able to come to terms with that.
The movie begins with a shot of Hester standing at the window of her home, opening the curtains, and ends in the same way before panning back to the street. This in a way represents the cyclical nature of Hester's life, how she is always searching for something more, only to end up back where she started.
The film also highlights sound and puts a great emphasis on it. Often background noises or even no sound at all, help to create the mood or set a particular scene. This is especially apparent during Hester's suicide scene where every sound seems to break through the trance like state the audience is put in while watching her.
Overall, I liked the film, but probably would not see it again. It was interesting, but definitely made for an elder generation.
I got chills in every scene of this movie. I could not handle the great amount of suspense in it. Half of the movie takes place in the mind of the character that Swinton plays or at least that is what I thought; it is kind of distorted because it seems as if we were seeing the movie in Eva’s point of view but this is never for sure. This movie shows the relationship between a mother and her evil child who hides this enmity towards his mother from his father. It is a little confusing since it kind of blends the past and present. It tells the story of Eva, interpreted by Swinton, who is married to an amazing husband. They had children but their oldest son Kevin did not act normal. As a kid, He was always shouting and then apparently shows resentment against his mother. On the other hand, I think that Eva is not a very good mother and I believe that she did not want to have this kid when she was pregnant of him. Kevin is evil; he becomes a bully and even kills. I found this movie to be filled with horror and pure evil. Kevin is a monster. In the movie, the audience is witness to Kevin’s malice and viciousness. I believe that there is only one time throughout the whole movie where we really experience an affectionate moment between Eva and Kevin, this moment is when Eva reads “Robin Hood” to her son. Another idea that I cannot seem to tolerate is that the movie is set to never resolve the hatred that exists between mother and child. I believe that the bond that exists between a mother and her own child is spiritual and unbreakable. This movie involves psychology in that it shows how Kevin is a psychopath that has aggressive behavior and has no good feelings for anything or anyone. I have honestly never seen another movie so deep and threatening as this one.
Lets talk about Kevin was a very interesting movie.It was intense and graphic. I felt like the acting was very believable and you could sit through the movie without falling asleep. It was a lot of things in the movie that I was curious about? Did the Tomatoes stand for the color blood or was it a symbol for something? Kevin was evil because his mom wanted or tried to have an abortion? He also could have been an evil because the mom was not happy she looked depressed all the time. I like the way the movie went back forth between the future and the past with the scenes. There were colors and pictures used a lot. Some parts of the movie could have been toned down just a little I didn’t like that what Kevin actually did was extreme killed his father and sister and the kids at school. Did the mom actually forgive Kevin in the end? When the mom made the room looks like Kevin in the end what was that suppose to symbolize? I also didn’t like that fact how the dad was so naĂŻve to what was going on. I did not like the fact that the father could not believe the mother.
If there was ever a movie to see that I wanted to intrigue me, and not scare me so bad to where I’m paranoid, this is the movie. This movie touches on a subject that has recently been a point of discussion, with the murders at Virginia Tech by one of its own students, and the past events of Columbine. The movie depicts Kevin as a very scary and disturbed person, who really has no clue for being the way that he is. He murders and hurts others for pleasure, and his mother tries to point it out throughout his life to no avail.
The fact that Franklin won’t listen to Eva also has social ramifications. It shows the distinction in gender roles between a husband and a wife, but it also shows how society condemns those who are seen as deviant. Eva tries to point out to Franklin that there is something wrong with their son, but Franklin constantly shrugs off her attempts to show him that their son acts in a way that is not accepted by society.
Lastly, the conclusion of the movie has a couple of important things that the viewer sees. It shows the love between a mother and her son, regardless of his past. Also, it shows how this love will urge a parent to try and help their son regardless if his past. Kevin says in the last scene that he does not know why he commits murders, which is done to try to give the film one last touch of horror. This is done because as the audience is leaving the theater, it makes them think and worry if there’s others who act and think in this same manner, which can terrify them.
I really liked this movie. It had me on the edge of my seat from the moment it started until the very end. I love thriller/suspenseful movies that leave me anxious and this movie definitely delivered. I knew that Kevin was off, but I didn't know that he was going to kill so many people. I felt really bad for the mother, named Eva. She only wanted to love and be loved by him. Kevin was difficult to deal with from the moment he was born. I don't see how Franklin, Eva's husband, had not noticed that his son was a sociopath. His behavior wasn't normal at all. Kevin would not talk as a toddler, purposely led his parents to believe that he wasn't potty trained (even though he was), and did spiteful things to Eva. Franklin was in major denial for some reason. Even when Kevin killed his little sister's hamster and blinded her in one eye, he still did not think twice that Kevin could possibly be the blame. Kevin's denial ultimately led to he and Celia's tragic and untimely death.
I did not expect the ending to be the way it was. On Kevin's 18th birthday, he revealed that he did not know why he murdered all those people. All of his life, he seemed to do things on purpose. He always knew what he was doing, so why does he all of a sudden not know why he took so many lives? I think Kevin had a lot of time to think inside of his jail cell and realized that what he did was wrong. The end of the movie left room for the audience to think about what would become of Kevin and Eva. I can't imagine how Eva could start her life over. Losing everyone that she loved and having no support from anyone had to be painful for her. If that happened to me, I would have to leave town. I would not be able to live in a town that shunned me for having a murderer as a son. It seemed like Eva was making progress for herself, the movie was basically the life of Eva after the massacre done by Kevin. Her recollections told the audience what happened.
We Need to Talk About Kevin definitely didn't sit will with me. I'm never one for horror or creepy thrillers, but the trailer intrigued me way too much for me to miss out. I chose not to read anything about it, not even the reviews, and just experience it for myself -- bad idea. First and foremost, I can't take John C. Reilly seriously... ever. I don't know if it's his face or his hair or his terrible performances alongside Will Ferrel, but I just can't do it. I think he was a major flaw in the casting of the film because Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller put on absolutely flawless performances. Secondly, I think it took too long for them to establish the different time periods. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention, but Swinton's hairstyles really weren't enough for me to figure it out early enough. Lastly, I absolutely loathe school violence. It freaks me out, it makes me uncomfortable, and I don't think it should be broadcast so frighteningly and, essentially, realistically. Not that any other forms of violence should be, but watching the students' reaction shots and seeing Kevin lock the doors to the school kind of ruined me a little bit. Does that make me a total wimp? Probably. Am I embarrassed by that? I don't know yet. I think it's safe to say that I value the film from afar. It's not at all what I look for, but I'd probably recommend it to people who aren't so faint of heart. I do look forward to seeing more of Miller's work though, I hear he's always that impressive.
I had heard from my friends that already saw this movie that it was an intense thriller that never had a lack of surprises. After I watched this movie I definitely agreed. Seeing the various flashbacks of Kevin’s life, along with his creepy interactions between the characters, made me feel somewhat uncomfortable while watching this film. However, Ezra Miller is an amazing talent and had a great performance while a role defined as being a sociopath. Just by the look on her face, she constantly appeared as nervous and very scared. Overall, the film was basically a manifestation of her mind, so everything that occurs within the movie is completely logical to her. She didn’t listen to anybody about her son being a little unstable, which is the underlying reason for everyone blaming her about her son’s actions. It became apparent to me that Kevin’s sister was conceived simply because Eva believed she lost her son. Kevin’s jealously completely took over him, which caused him to attack Celia when she was younger resulting in her losing an eye, and inevitably killing her and his father. I couldn’t believe how far Kevin went this far to gain his mother’s appreciation and approval, but regardless it lead to the murders. I also noticed the films use of close ups to depict feeling, cheerful music, depressing monologues, and lastly extremely negative interactions between many characters within the movie. I didn’t really understand why he didn’t even know the reason for himself why he committed the murders, but that’s the beauty in this film in being up for interpretation to the viewing audience.
We Need to Talk About Kevin was a disturbing movie about a terrible mother to son relationship. Normally a mother’s love for her child is unconditional, but this was not the case with Eva and Kevin. It was clear from an early age that there was something wrong with Kevin. However, when Eva first started noticing strange things, I think she took them as an attack against her, in which she tried to play the victim card with her husband. I think most mothers would have taken a different approach in this situation. They would realize that their son had some kind of psychological disease and would do everything they could to get him help instead of just giving up after the first doctor couldn’t find anything wrong with him. From the start, Eva wasn’t a loving and nourishing mother. Even her relationship with her daughter wasn’t as warm as I would expect a mother daughter relationship should be. I think the fact that Kevin didn’t feel loved and accepted by his own mother may have driven him even crazier. He probably felt like a rejected freak and shooting people was his sick way of telling the world that he clearly needs help. At the end of the movie, he is not able to give his mother any explanation as to why he did it. I think he did it out of pure insanity and he really has no explanation to offer.
I think We Need to Talk about Kevin was a movie which showed an social phenomenon is becoming increasingly serious of modern America, on the other words, it is a heavy consequence slapped America educational system drastically. Is the traditional education that is filled up by mercy, forgiveness, patience,a correct way for our children? Or the American parents should be more strict and when the traditional way does not work, they will be able to adopt some special tactics like send them to a methodist school or give them an unforgetable punishment. It is a film that is warning us, if the Amercan parents keep spoiling their children, maybe there is not only one Kevin. Not only the terrible consequence led the broken of the family relationship, but involved many innocent victims as well, those two students were killed in school, Kevin's father and sister. This film is shocking and caused us to think deeply because it is based on a real story. Anyway, the real stories are always the materials of high classical movies.
For this film named Deep blue sea, we are able to understand it was talking about a woman who was unsatisfied her marital life, let herself go to be crushed on her neighbor, the former RAF, and began a desperate love. The shots of this film showed a hopeless heart greatly, the old-styled shooting tactic was used in this film, especially the shots just contains the leading actor and actress, it emerged their hidden emotion in most incisive, and catched the hearts of audience, let them reflect on their own love. Fcially, it is a movie just talking about a special love, but, we can figure a deeper implication from it's old version, it was talking about feminism, the moment when it's old version published is during the Cold War, at that time in western world, the feminism is rising and there were many movies with this style appeared. Actually, it is a movie telling us, women have their freedom of love, the same as men, please respect them.
“Deep Blue Sea” is horror movie that breakă„´ well typical rule of horror film. However, there are some parts showing typical elements as horror movie. For instance, there are many love scenes and girls wear bikini revealing female’s attractiveness. I think it was descent horror film about sea after the movie “Jaws” which also uses shark as fearful element. Actually, I watched this movie when I was in elementary school. I remembered, at that time, I argued with my friends about which is better movie between “Deep Blue Sea” showing shark and “Lake Placid” showing crocodile. Most of them said “Deep Blue Sea” is way better than “Lake Placid” since this film has more tension and unexpected twists to the plot. Because of “Deep Blue Sea”, I as a elementary student felt more fear for shark compared with crocodile. It is my kind of my old memory. Anyway, during movie, I got embarrassed when Samuel Jackson who looks likes main character just go into shark mouth abruptly. I think such tricky plot is attractive factor for this film. Also, it was pretty interesting that I cannot expect who will be last person alive until the end. Such unexpected story and tension make me keep concentrating the movie.
I have only had a few instances where a movie really, really sticks with me after leaving the theater. We Need to Talk About Kevin was definitely one of those instances. Tilda Swinton gave a flawless (and most definitely Oscar Nomination worthy) performance of a mother dealing with the aftermath of her son's horrific and violent decision to use his archery skills to kill his father and sister, then to attack his high school. Swinton's character, Eva, experiences nothing but struggle and confusion when it comes to her son, Kevin. Since birth, Kevin has had it out for his mother: constant screaming and crying, destructive and violent attitude, absolutely no signs of affection. Throughout the film, Eva tries her absolute hardest to develop a relationship with Kevin, which was so incredibly heart wrenching because Kevin wants nothing to do with her. After several violent acts including killing a hamster and causing his sister to lose an eye, Kevin snaps. The scenes that depict his attacks were done so realistically that I honestly felt sick to my stomach-- not even by the violent images, but simply by the thought of him doing this. Though the performances were perfect, it became difficult to follow the plot with the constant and unnecessary "flip flopping" between time periods. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the amazing performances and was truly shaken up by the story.
We Need to Talk About Kevin was a decent film, but I felt that the characters of could have been explored a little more. The movie starts us off by showing us Eva, a travel writer who seems to really love her job. She eventually falls in love with Franklin, played by John C. Reiley, and have a kid together. After conceiving, Eva begins to realize that she is going to have to give up her love of traveling and will have to settle down to raise her child. However; instead of a child, Eva gets a hellspawn in the form of a child whom she calls Kevin. Kevin constantly cries and gives his mother trouble. In fact it seems throughout his whole life Kevin’s job is to make his mother miserable. The whole movie is told through Eva’s perspective, because we never really see Kevin at school or outside of the house, unless his mother is with him. I do not believe this was a wise choice because while the mother is an interesting character, I feel the movie should have focused more on Kevin, and what made him tick. Not much is really explained about him and we never really get to see why he hates his mom so much. I suppose it had to do with her not wanting Kevin to begin with, but it’s really hard to say. I suppose the director wanted to leave it open ended, but if we just get the perspective of the mother throughout the movie, then we are seeing it through a biased point of view. I would have liked to see an unfiltered version of the movie in which we could see the psychological perspective of both Kevin and Eva, instead of just Eva. I didn’t really like the way the movie shot back and forth between the present and the past, because it shows the audience that Kevin is pretty much guaranteed to do something horrific, and in the back of your head it just makes you wonder what it is going to be. However; the director did a fantastic job of building tension, and the story was written well enough to keep me interested until the end, even if the ending was a bit disappointing.
We do not know Kevin why the child became the devil, home to more new members of the sister mother particularly loved more deeply Kevin deviation, shot her sister's eyes and pets, and occasionally the mother and son talk about old times, has long been to restore the broken emotions, played the father of John Lee, as men tend to be busy only see the surface of the child, no way of knowing the potential crisis that occurred in the family.
Kultida after the incident, Swindon choice to return to the workplace, to go out shopping always timid, and worry about what others accused of strange looks, my colleagues come to strike up a conversation Invitation to the Dance, Swindon, Kultida politely declined, colleagues, taking advantage of counterattack event attacked her son to let her live in a closed world from this bear the son of mistakes, do what the finger of blame are the points to the error of the mother, but the problem the film has not clearly expressed in the end by what impact Kevin will so evil, can only say that he was born evil.
Kevin how the story itself is the expression of insufficient, however, Kultida Swindon performed on the actor performance is very excellent, with the film nominated for numerous awards, bright red to create a feeling of unease, the child deteriorated Who is to blame family, social, education, and even play Kevin would reply, "I used to think I know, but I'm not so sure" Kevin how only see another dangerous angel.
I was looking forward to seeing We Need to Talk about Kevin, and it didn’t disappoint at all. I really enjoyed how it was told out of chronological order. It let the viewer struggle to figure out what happened before it is revealed by the movie. It also leads the viewer to wonder why everyone treats the main character so poorly and justifies the final scene where the mother tells Kevin that she wants him back home. Had we seen the movie in chronological order we wouldn’t have felt terrible for Kevin’s mom before we find out about the killings and her want for him to come back home wouldn’t make sense. Finally I feel like if we watched everything leading up to the killings, then the killings, and then had to watch about the mother’s life after, that whole section would feel out of place as the climax would have already happened. The acting in this movie was superb. At no point did I feel like the actors were merely acting as I felt always that they represented the very persona of their characters. I felt the genuine darkness from Kevin as well as his father’s innocence. Kevin’s mother was convincing throughout the entire movie and showed a variety of real emotions. Her actions were what told me if a scene was before or after the killings. You can tell because of how broken she acts in all the post killings scenes.
The audience is left with a lot of questions and doubts when they finish watching We Need to Talk About Kevin. The movie deals with family relationship and specifically the relationship between a mother and her “different” son. Her son, an obviously psychologically crazy boy, has many difficulties, ones we only come to understand, and not even fully, at the end of the movie. The mother son relationship is very unique and even scary at times. As a child his mother rejected him to a certain extent, mostly because he was an accident that “destroyed” her youth. Since then she has showed him love and care but all he ever did was show hatred. There is one scene in the movie where Kevin shows compassion towards his mother, when she is reading him a short story in bed. I’m not sure what gave him that change in compassion, where he wanted the comfort of his mom, but it definitely gave the mom more security in him, when she shouldn’t have. This movie is a typical thriller that has some scares and some gut suspenseful moments, but it is mostly a psychological thriller. Why does what happens happen is a very common question left to the audience to figure out. For example, why is Kevin good with his father but intolerant of his mother? I believe that at the end, when Kevin’s mother asks him why he did what he did, we understand that is truly insane. He answers by saying that he did once have a reason but could no longer remember it.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a very heavy film. It is clear from early on in the film that something is clearly wrong about Kevin, the way he acts is disturbing for a child and makes the audience uncomfortable. As the film progresses, the audience becomes more uncomfortable with the clearly twisted relationship between Ezra Miller's character and Tilda Swinton's. The actors do an amazing job of acting on this strained relationship, giving it a life of its own. The movie focuses on the mother-son relationship, playing on Kevin's bitter hatred towards his mother and his desire to torment her mercilessly. Kevin's psychopathic nature eventually moves beyond just his mother, though, and people and things around him start to suffer. Eventually, Kevin completely loses it and slays his father and sister before killing members of his school. Kevin leaves his mother alive, though, perhaps to make her suffer more, perhaps because she's the only person he feels any connection with at all. All in all, this was a fantastic movie and I would enjoy watching it again at some future date.
We Need to Talk about Kevin was one the strangest films I have ever seen. The editing made this film unique, consistently jumping between time and events. Another aspect of this movie that stood out to me was the visuals. Many scenes were very visually poignant, specifically the opening scene with the mother and the tomato fight. Corresponding with the tomato fight was the fact of how red is a consistent theme and image throughout the film. Red is seen in many forms: tomatoes, blood, paint, jelly, the bulls eye of the target for the bow and arrows. Overall, I thought the movie was just all right. The first half of the movie moved quite slowly and the jumping back and forth in time made it a little confusing. Additionally, I felt that the entire movie just led up to the final ten minutes. The audience kept waiting for something to happen, and they kept waiting for Kevin to act upon his inherent “evil.” It was frustrating for me to have to wait the entire movie to see what I wanted to see. The most important relationship is clearly between Kevin and his mother. The ending is ambiguous over why Kevin killed everyone and whether or not he truly loves his mother. In my opinion, I think he did love his mother.
Lynne Ramsay is a British Film maker who has featured this suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller. This movie explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilta Swindon plays the role of the mother, Eva, in a revitalizing, tour-de-force performance. The mother struggles against her first sons increasing malevolence for 15 years. Ezra Miller plays the role of the first-born child, Kevin. Kevin’s innate evilness is measured against Eva’s own culpability. Hence, exploring the nature vs. nurture debate. It is a thought provoking, fearless and confident movie. The experimental story of the movie is novel based. It is good to see Ramsay back with a bang after such a long time.
We Need to Talk about Kevin is an off-putting film. I felt very uneasy while watching it. This is in part because it is very clear that in the first half of the film, you are expecting Kevin to do something totally horrific. While he does do bad things throughout the film he saves his worst for the end.
The film revolves around a family and specifically the mother Eva who is married to Franklin. When their first born Kevin is conceived it is clear that Kevin has resentment to his mother but his father is blind to it, because he believes that this is just how young boys act. One of the most impressive aspects of the film is how it made you feel sorry for the mother Eva. It breaks the norm you would expect that a mother has unconditional love for her child, but Kevin makes this impossible by literally ruining his mother’s family and life. It is this character of Kevin that seems to be the embodiment of evil, as evident when he kills his sister’s hamster by sticking it in the sink and allowing his mother to turn the disposal on as well as blinding her in one eye, that makes the film very difficult to watch.
La Boheme was disappointing. It was my own fault though for thinking I was going to like it purely on the basis that the movie Rent was based off of it. I do not like plays, opera, or musicals nearly as much as I like and appreciate films. Nowhere close. I found it really hard to pay attention to La Boheme because it was in another language and they sang the entire time. Out of all the operas I could have seen though, at least I could follow the storyline a little because it ran along the same lines as Rent. Long story short, I have learned my lesson.
The most entertaining scene – or rather the one I found least boring – was when they all finally leave their loft/studio apartment and go out into the town. The music was more upbeat, the colors were brighter, and the mood was less depressing. Everything went downhill from there and it got harder to pay attention again.
I did find it interesting that while there are some problems back then that are still problems today (like how to pay your rent, finding a good job, or getting the girl), I think there are far more problematic situations today. Drugs, sex, and crime have been magnified since then and maybe that is something we should think about working on sooner rather than later.
I like Rachel Weisz very much and in this movie, she is acting a role who struggles in a deep sea like love that is unknown and lost. I loved her acting because she describes the feeling of a woman who can’t love someone anymore well. And the love of tree people was interesting. Actually, it is the old kind of subjects in Korean love story dramas. However, the subject of this film was about the deep love which is not shallow but fatal so can make them even suicide because of forgetting a birthday. But I felt really sad, it is the love of young man and the married woman. Not between the wife and the husband. The two one sided loves made me realize the sadness of impossible loves.
This was a very dark, evil film, but i enjoyed it. Kevin was a very dark and cynical psychopath of a character, and the actor choice was perfect. It's very sad to think that someone could spend their entire life growing with evil intentions inside of them, and a complete disregard for human connection.
The way this story was told really hit home. It began in the middle of sprawling emotions, as Kevin is already in jail. The story is ultimately portrayed through Eva's (Kevin's mother) flashbacks. It is sad to watch this woman's life become forever tainted by such a horrible, evil son. Her reputation and grasp on life are torn apart by both the fact that her son is a cruel-hearted killer, and the abuse that she must take in the aftermath from vengeful townspeople. Good movie, but dark and frustrating
Out of all the movies that I’ve seen that try to investigate the question, “why?” this one did a really good job at leaving the question up to the audience. Having watched the trailer beforehand I felt the same feelings of suspense and anticipation that I felt during the movie. The whole time I wanted to know what was wrong with Kevin and after watching we never really find out the underlying reason which I think makes the movie so good. I would have been kind of mad if they told us why. This movie was another one of those movies that does something emotional to you and left me in my seat for a while trying to figure out the reasons behind Kevin’s behavior.
ReplyDeleteAs far as form and content go, this movie seemed to be a perfect example that these two go hand in hand. I thought the film did a great job at communicating so many themes and the way they portrayed this with the bright vivid colors and nonlinear storytelling was very unique. The colors played a huge role as the bright red in the beginning carried through the whole film symbolically whether it was in the strawberry jam sandwiches, the red wine, the outfits, the paint, the walls...etc. I also thought the red paint splattered only on the windshield of the mother’s car was pretty representative to the fact that she couldn’t see the reasons behind Kevin’s behavior and was blinded to the series of traumatic events that led up to the biggest incident. It seemed like the mom seemed to be the only one to really realize that something was wrong with him from the start but didn’t quite know how to handle it because she didn’t know who to question or why it was going on. She was seen as mostly helpless throughout the movie trying to understand things. Even the guy at her new job was showing her how to work the computer. She couldn’t answer any questions on her own.
I also found it shocking that Kevin killed everyone in his family except his mother and felt that he maybe he kept her alive purposely in order to let her suffer the most. The ending gave me goose bumps when all that the mother wants is the answer of why he did it and he says “I used to think I knew, but now I’m not so sure.” I thought this was appropriate and had something to do with something Ezra Miller said earlier on in the film about the CD virus. After the CD incident he mentions to his mother “there is no point and that’s the point.” I think another good ending would have been if he had said this line when answering his mother’s question or even a simple “no” would have added to the complexity of the movie. Although I couldn’t stay for the panel discussion I would have really enjoyed talking about Kevin and hearing what the speakers had to say. Overall, I think this movie was brilliantly put together and really elicits strong emotions from whoever watches it.
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ReplyDeleteI did not know much about this film before I went to see it. I was already planning on going to watch We Need To Talk About Kevin, and I had nothing else to do, so I decided to hit the Cosford early and see what else was playing. It is pretty strange that I don’t like a film; it is even more peculiar that I feel the urge to leave the theater. But, I have got to be honest, this is one of the most boring uninteresting films I have ever seen. I had a hard time being awake and the only thing I wanted was for this to be over soon. I didn’t like the plot and I didn’t like any performance in particular.
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I was planning to go see this movie before I watched the trailer on class. I usually don’t like scary movies, I don’t mind being a little scared during the film, but I hate leaving the theater and feel terrified, and what I hate the most are those movies that make me loose sleep at night. The trailer stroked me as if We Need to Talk About Kevin, was going to be another terrifying thriller, bur for my surprise, and this time, for my good surprise, this film was not that scary, it was a little creepy but that I can handle.
Ezra Miller performance was outstanding. Before this film, I’ve never seen this guy, but I am positive that he will be a very very renowned actor in the future, I dare to say that he will be a big movie star. He was creepy at all times, but he managed himself to inspire in me (the viewer) a little sympathy from time to time.
Tilda Swinton’s performance was really good too. Her interaction with Kevin as kid, and Kevin as a teenager evolve, but not in the way any relationship between a mother and a boy/guy develops. In her eyes you could see her restless soul. She was worried and nervous most of the time. She knew Kevin was not OK, she knew what he was capable of but she also knew she couldn’t do anything about, and in some level she felt responsible.
The ending was one of my favorite parts. It was a very bittersweet moment, where for the first time Kevin is vulnerable, he is afraid, he doesn’t have a plan. Both of the brake the walls they built during their whole life and hug. This scene gave me chills. It’s hard for me to put it into words, but I just felt something weird, I felt connected to both of them, I wanted to help them.
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ReplyDeleteTill now, I still haven’t figured out what is answer of the final scene. Why Kevin killed his Dad and sister. Did he just want to leave his mother there to watch every tragedy happen in front of her. Maybe, being alive was the most miserable thing for Eva. There were three storylines in this film, one was telling us about the childhood of Kevin, one was telling how Eva cleaned her house that was covered by red paint and another one was telling how Eva was living in reality by herself.
Actually there was no violent scene in the film, but the color red was metaphors of Kevin’s violent incidents. In my opinion, Kevin’s behavior was caused by Eva’s pregnancy depression. It was very normal that babies always cry when they didn’t know how to talk and express their feeling. However, Eva thought that Kevin was tortured her, so she even wanted to hear the noise from construction rather than to hear Kevin crying. As time went by, Kevin became weirder and weirder.
So, I think, why Kevin behaved like this was because Eva looked after him with spitefulness and depression. After Kevin grew up, Eva got another daughter, who made Kevin hate his Mum even much.
After Kevin killed his sister and Dad, Eva was living all the way by herself, dissocial and lonely. She bear all the mistakes Kevin had made and left. I still don’t know what made Kevin be an evil.
Although the story is miserable and horror, the background music is very cheerful. I like this kind of new horror movies, which are actually telling the sad stories but with cheerful background and colors.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is an uncomfortable movie to watch. The first half hour is eerie and unsettling. The cinematography is schizophrenic and develops a sense of paranoia. There are abrupt fade outs and long, uncomfortable shots that help us understand Eva’s anxiety. The music is also disquieting; there is the usual ominous thriller music along with shockingly uplifting music that contradicts but simultaneously complements the disturbing narrative. The opening minutes of the film are meant to shock the audience into questioning why Eva is ostracized and shamed by her community. The film gradually reveals that it is because of a horrific crime committed by her son, Kevin. The rest of the film builds up to the crime’s revelation, while developing the characters of Eva and Kevin. Kevin develops from a demon child to a teenager with obvious signs of antisocial personality disorder. He also has a subtle Oedipal complex; the disturbing masturbation scene (in which he breaks the fourth wall) with his mother is evidence enough, but one can also interpret his vendetta towards his mother as a misaligned cry for her attention (and physical love). His relationship with his father is forcefully artificial, as if he’s trying to restrain his hatred towards Franklin for copulating with Eva. From the beginning, misbehavior/destruction becomes the easiest way for Kevin to grab his mother’s attention. The massacre at the end is his magnum opus to her, inspired by the Robin Hood story she read to him as a child. Eva also develops from an enigmatic woman to a resilient mother who is forced to bear the sins of her firstborn child. Although she had genuine hatred towards him as a child, she grew to love him because he was so much like her. His evil nature originates from her.
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ReplyDeleteThis film’s story is about an old stuff which a wife crushed on another young man and wanted to divorce with her husband. The scenes were normally simple, many things happened in a bedroom.
This film used to develop the story from the views of the wife, about her views of this love triangle. At the beginning of this film, the wife was taking some medicines to commit suicide because her lover forgot her birthday. Birthday was not really a big matter, her lover just got mad because she was so sensitive. I felt that the wife loved the young man so much, but I didn’t feel that the young man loved her as much as she did. Her husband loved her wife unconditionally, no matter she had affair with other man.
This film was surrounded by old English atmosphere that was comprised by a lot of background violin music and some simple but classic furnishes. The filmmaker used to apply medium shoot to emphasize those actors’ expression and acting.
The Deep Blue Sea was demonstrating how women struggle in a deep blue sea-like love that was unknown and lost. Rachel Weisz was a very good actor, who let us feel the same way as she did in the film. It was, when a woman couldn’t love someone anymore, the only way was to leave and to free everything, which were her love for the young man and her husband’s love for her. Honesty, I don’t like this kind of film, because it is really an old fashion story. Anyway, the actors are not bad.
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ReplyDeleteCrazy. Weird. Scary. Emotional. I felt everything while I watched “We need to talk about Kevin”. Due to a suggestion of my friend, I haven’t informed myself about the movie. I didn’t have any expectations; except for one: that is a movie like nothing I have seen before. And it is. It’s unique and evokes feelings I never felt in a movie theatre before.
The story is about a mother and her son. The whole movie is a reflection of her mind, so, everything makes sense for her. The story isn’t in a chronological order nor does any ordinary storytelling way exist. One can’t find any pattern between past, present and future. Only with the length of Eva’s (Tilda Swinton) hair, one can assume in which time the scene is set. The viewer undergoes with Eva an extreme change in her life and tries to get some sense of her obviously broken mind.
This terrible event is caused by her son Kevin (played by Ezra Miller in the teenage age). Since she has given birth to him, she somehow rejects him and feels that there is something wrong with him. However, she never talks about it in much detail with her husband or psychologists. Over the years, she just let Kevin do mean things to her without much struggling against it. However, this makes her remarkable for Kevin. Therefore, she wasn’t killed by him in his massacre. He doesn’t want to kill his audience. He wants to hurt and punish her even more with that.
The storyline is remarkable, and there is no happy end in that movie. But, I even more liked the performances of the actors. I felt that Eva was heading to a nervous breakdown. She looked as she was shocked all the time. In contrast, Kevin was funny and charming with others, but showed his “evil” personality only to his mother by not speaking with her, doing things she has forbidden etc. With these outstanding performances, one got entry in the weird and unconformable world of Eva. And felt emotions and suspense, not every movie can create. For me, no movie has created them so far.
The Deep Blue Sea
ReplyDeleteWhen I think about London, I imagine luxury, royals, and Minis driving on the wrong side. However, “The Deep Blue Sea” doesn’t show this London. It goes back to the time after World War II. It describes a dirty, outworn London with depressive figures, who lost their sense in life. Three of them are Hester (Rachel Weisz), Freddie (Tom Hiddelston) and William (Simon Russell Bale). The film perfectly delivers this depressive and dark atmosphere to the audience. But, it does nothing more.
Hester is caught by her love-triangle with her old husband William and the young and attractive Freddie. However, she can’t let go of either one of them. William stands for safety and intelligence, whereas Freddie symbolizes adventure and desire. Hester decides to have an affair with Freddie and live on as usual. However, William gets to know this and splits up with her. However, this doesn’t mean the love-triangle ends. Every person is somehow broken. Hester can’t get enough of Freddie. She is obsessed by him and tries to commit suicide after he forgets her birthday. Freddie, a former RAF pilot, sees no sense in his life after the war ended. He’s helpless to find a new path for his life. William is unhappy with his mother who insults Hester every time she sees her. He is disappointed with Hester, too. But, he can’t stop loving her. So, everyone is doomed and depressed in the film and tries to find a way, to get along without revealing the misery.
Yes, the audience can feel these depressions due to the perfectly made atmosphere. However, the movie is too slow to touch anyone. The dialogues and characters’ acts are unnecessary drawn out. I was bored after a while, because there was no progress at all. Sure, it’s fascinating to get in the head of Hester who tries to figure out what to do with her life. But, with this tempo and non-inspirational camera work, I can’t like this movie. It didn’t entertain me, although there was potential to do so.
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ReplyDeleteEva has deep love for traveling. Before the accident, she worked in a travel agency. And later, she found a job in another travel agency. She only shows her sincere smile when she pastes maps and tourist souvenirs in the room of the new house. Through her memories, we can see her crazy moment at Spain Tomato Festival when she was young and her freedom and romance in love. However, all things are changed by the unexpected visit of Kevin. When Eva sees her belly which is more and more round in the mirror, she looks like not so happy. When she listens to exciting experiences shared by other pregnant women, she even can not wait for feeing away. After the birth of the child, Eva’s smirk can not stop crying of the baby. She feels so freaked that she pulls the baby carriage to the side of the construction site and let the electric drilling sound cover the crying sound to ask for a moment of liberation. Eyes of passers are filled with question about Eva’s action. In the whole process of raising Kevin, Eva shows no joy in being a mother. The mother and the child often have no talks to each other. When both of them go outside together, Eva on the one hand tries to be close to her son, on the other hand shows her look of “getting it over with”. Once, Eva rebuked Kevin and said “Mommy was happy before widdle Kevin came along, you know that? Now Mommy wakes up every morning and wishes she was in France”. This scenario is intersected in more and more urgent knocking sound by children dressing up as ghosts. The accountability to Eva is self-evident.
How to deal with the so called unexpected pregnancy? Is it appropriate to let a mother give birth to child without preparation or even with inimical mood? The punishment to both sides is over the top. However, in the story, the punishment is not only to both sides. When Eva cherished Celia, compared with preparation for her pregnancy to Kevin, her preparation for her pregnancy to Celia is more sufficient. After the birth of Celia, Eva looked like a normal mother amusing Celia in her arms happily. When we recall the moment when she gives birth to Kevin, the father embraces the child in his arms, while Eva just sits on the bed with no expression. This moment may be the miniature of relationships between the child and the mother, namely Eva has normal mother-and-daughter relationship with Celia but has nothing to do with Kevin. Before the birth of younger sister, the dialogue between the mother and the son makes people hurt. Kevin says” Just cause you’re used to something doesn’t mean you like it. You’re used to me.” However, Eva does not refute at all. It is no wonder that when Eva says “I love you", the son does not believe. Compared with superficial rebellious characteristics of the son, the violent of the mother is more horrible to me. Over the years, Eva plays a role of mother in front of Kevin, however, she never becomes a real mother. She can not understand rebellious characteristics of her son. She also thinks that her son will never be conscious of her aloofness. On the contrary, the child just looks the aloofness in the eye but remember it the heart.
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ReplyDeleteIn the whole film, the scenario where Kevin feels sick is the most harmonious scenario about relationship between the mother and the son. The expression of Kevin’s aspiration for mother’s love at ordinary times is unacceptable. When Kevin falls sick, he just looks like an ordinary child lying in front of the mother and listening to stories and letting the father away. Eva feels very happy and smiles, and Kevin stares at Eva as a persons who looks at an unrequited lover. While Kevin is recovered, the stubborn Kevin that we can not understand comes back again.
In the whole film, red color can be seen in each scenario, such as tomato ketchup, apple, candle, paint, red gate of the gymnasium and red wine in the cup when Eva feels depressed. In the supermarket, Eva stands in front of rows of tomato cans, making people think of the dream where people splash tomato ketchup onto her body at the beginning of the film. Red color in this film represents accusation to her. Eva’s desperate paint washing seems her washing of guilty.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a difficult film to watch. It's simultaneously captivating and haunting: it makes you squirm with the knowledge that something terrible will happen, but still draws you in and makes you want to know the details of this unspoken horrible tragedy.
ReplyDeleteThe whole film is told from Eva (Tilda Swinton), the mother's point of view, and you can truly see the confusion, fear, heartbreak, and defeat flashing across her face in every scene. Tilda Swinton does more with just her eyes in a single scene than most other actors do in an entire movie. She was the film's saving grace for me. Without her performance to draw me in, I think the movie would have been too difficult to watch. With her, it was a stunning portrayal of depression, fear, and failure, leaving the audience wondering: is evil born or raised?
When the movie began I had absolutely no idea what was going on, and couldn’t make any ties into what it had to do with the plot, especially right after seeing the trailer for the movie. Once the plot began to unfold however It all started to make sense. I really liked the cinematography and production of the movie. I thought the director did a good job with not having the movie take place in chronological order, but instead, skipping to the end and middle in the beginning and the beginning in the middle and end of the movie. I really like action/horror movies and this movie kept me interested throughout. The scenes were really intense and graphic and it kept my attention. During the preview, I was unsure of how I would like the movie, because I couldn’t picture John C Reilly starring in anything besides a comedy, but he actually did a very good job, along with all the rest of the actors. The actors that played Kevin were a perfect fit for the role, and same with the mother. Personally I thought this was the best movie I’ve seen since being in the class. It was never slow moving, and the smart-alec cruel hearted Kevin character always kept me drawn in to the action.
ReplyDeleteWe Need to Talk About Kevin is a film that I will recommend to all of my friends. The story line was intriguing and relevant and I couldn't take my eyes away for a second. I liked the use of the color red throughout the film, and how it was splashed throughout the mother's life. I feel that this symbolized her constant attempts to wash away her son's sins, and in turn the sins she feels she committed. I feel the color red was all over her hands because she feels responsible for Kevin's actions, she feels that she created this monster. And throughout the film she is attempting to scrape away her guilt, sins, and his actions. This movie was like a script of how a serial killer is born to me, and it was a bit creepy. I think that one thing that truly showed how powerful this movie is, was that the entire theater sat quietly afterward. There wasn't the usual whispers about the movie or talking about what people are doing next. The theater was silent and still staring at the screen for a few seconds, then everyone made their way out of the theater still maintaining their general silence though. This to me speaks a great deal towards both the shock at what Kevin actually did and the power and emotion the film portrayed to the audience.
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ReplyDeleteI had no idea what to expect going into the film, We Need to Talk About Kevin. The suspenseful thriller pleasantly surprised me. The film was adapted from the fictional novel by Lionel Shriver. Tilda Swinton stars as Kevin’s mother and was outstanding. The movie was told from her point of view and shows her in present day dealing with Kevin’s murders. We see Kevin’s childhood and how things spiraled out of control through flashbacks. John C. Reilly played Kevin’s father. It was very interesting to see him playing a serious role like this one, which is the opposite of his usual roles in stupid comedies.
The film is largely centered on the relationship between Kevin and his mother. It was very uncomfortable to watch. It shows people that not every family relationship is as it seems. This relationship pushes this idea to the extreme. I really liked how throughout the movie it hinted at some tragedy at the end, but never gave away what happens. A lot of things in this movie were left a little confusing or unanswered. After viewing the film, I was left wondering why Kevin decided to kill his father and little sister along with the students at his school. Also at the end, Kevin admits that he was not really sure why he did what he did. In the end, I really enjoyed this film and would definitely recommend it to everyone.
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ReplyDeleteWe Need to Talk About Kevin was a great movie when it comes down to keeping you on your toes. even though I'm not one for movies that jump around in time, which is my only complaint about the movie, I can see how it is necessary to this movie to make it out to its fullest. at first in the movie it was hard to keep track of what happened when and where but near the middle of the movie i had a good grasp on what fit where and it made the movie much more interesting once i figured that out. it was also interesting in the story line when the mother is the only one to notice something off about Kevin and is told she is wrong but after her son had performed the evil deed she is blamed and many people hate her for it. those that are left for the most part don't even want to talk to her. whats ironic is the only person to talk to her and treat her as if it wasn't her fault was one of the victims of her son's rampage. all in all it was a interesting movie to watch at the time.
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ReplyDeleteThe film "The Deep Blue Sea," is about a woman named Hester, the young wife of a High Court Judge. Unsatisfied in her loving her unpassionate marriage, she turns to a handsome former RAF pilot and begins and affair with him. While the film centers on a single day in Hester's life, the day that she commits suicide, the audience also sees how unhappy she is with her life as a whole. Hester does find passionate in her romance with the pilot, but he does not love her the way that she loves him and is never quite able to come to terms with that.
The movie begins with a shot of Hester standing at the window of her home, opening the curtains, and ends in the same way before panning back to the street. This in a way represents the cyclical nature of Hester's life, how she is always searching for something more, only to end up back where she started.
The film also highlights sound and puts a great emphasis on it. Often background noises or even no sound at all, help to create the mood or set a particular scene. This is especially apparent during Hester's suicide scene where every sound seems to break through the trance like state the audience is put in while watching her.
Overall, I liked the film, but probably would not see it again. It was interesting, but definitely made for an elder generation.
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ReplyDeleteI got chills in every scene of this movie. I could not handle the great amount of suspense in it. Half of the movie takes place in the mind of the character that Swinton plays or at least that is what I thought; it is kind of distorted because it seems as if we were seeing the movie in Eva’s point of view but this is never for sure. This movie shows the relationship between a mother and her evil child who hides this enmity towards his mother from his father. It is a little confusing since it kind of blends the past and present. It tells the story of Eva, interpreted by Swinton, who is married to an amazing husband. They had children but their oldest son Kevin did not act normal. As a kid, He was always shouting and then apparently shows resentment against his mother. On the other hand, I think that Eva is not a very good mother and I believe that she did not want to have this kid when she was pregnant of him. Kevin is evil; he becomes a bully and even kills. I found this movie to be filled with horror and pure evil. Kevin is a monster. In the movie, the audience is witness to Kevin’s malice and viciousness. I believe that there is only one time throughout the whole movie where we really experience an affectionate moment between Eva and Kevin, this moment is when Eva reads “Robin Hood” to her son. Another idea that I cannot seem to tolerate is that the movie is set to never resolve the hatred that exists between mother and child. I believe that the bond that exists between a mother and her own child is spiritual and unbreakable. This movie involves psychology in that it shows how Kevin is a psychopath that has aggressive behavior and has no good feelings for anything or anyone. I have honestly never seen another movie so deep and threatening as this one.
Lets talk about Kevin was a very interesting movie.It was intense and graphic. I felt like the acting was very believable and you could sit through the movie without falling asleep. It was a lot of things in the movie that I was curious about? Did the Tomatoes stand for the color blood or was it a symbol for something? Kevin was evil because his mom wanted or tried to have an abortion? He also could have been an evil because the mom was not happy she looked depressed all the time. I like the way the movie went back forth between the future and the past with the scenes. There were colors and pictures used a lot. Some parts of the movie could have been toned down just a little I didn’t like that what Kevin actually did was extreme killed his father and sister and the kids at school. Did the mom actually forgive Kevin in the end? When the mom made the room looks like Kevin in the end what was that suppose to symbolize? I also didn’t like that fact how the dad was so naĂŻve to what was going on. I did not like the fact that the father could not believe the mother.
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ReplyDeleteIf there was ever a movie to see that I wanted to intrigue me, and not scare me so bad to where I’m paranoid, this is the movie. This movie touches on a subject that has recently been a point of discussion, with the murders at Virginia Tech by one of its own students, and the past events of Columbine. The movie depicts Kevin as a very scary and disturbed person, who really has no clue for being the way that he is. He murders and hurts others for pleasure, and his mother tries to point it out throughout his life to no avail.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Franklin won’t listen to Eva also has social ramifications. It shows the distinction in gender roles between a husband and a wife, but it also shows how society condemns those who are seen as deviant. Eva tries to point out to Franklin that there is something wrong with their son, but Franklin constantly shrugs off her attempts to show him that their son acts in a way that is not accepted by society.
Lastly, the conclusion of the movie has a couple of important things that the viewer sees. It shows the love between a mother and her son, regardless of his past. Also, it shows how this love will urge a parent to try and help their son regardless if his past. Kevin says in the last scene that he does not know why he commits murders, which is done to try to give the film one last touch of horror. This is done because as the audience is leaving the theater, it makes them think and worry if there’s others who act and think in this same manner, which can terrify them.
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ReplyDeleteI really liked this movie. It had me on the edge of my seat from the moment it started until the very end. I love thriller/suspenseful movies that leave me anxious and this movie definitely delivered. I knew that Kevin was off, but I didn't know that he was going to kill so many people. I felt really bad for the mother, named Eva. She only wanted to love and be loved by him. Kevin was difficult to deal with from the moment he was born. I don't see how Franklin, Eva's husband, had not noticed that his son was a sociopath. His behavior wasn't normal at all. Kevin would not talk as a toddler, purposely led his parents to believe that he wasn't potty trained (even though he was), and did spiteful things to Eva. Franklin was in major denial for some reason. Even when Kevin killed his little sister's hamster and blinded her in one eye, he still did not think twice that Kevin could possibly be the blame. Kevin's denial ultimately led to he and Celia's tragic and untimely death.
ReplyDeleteI did not expect the ending to be the way it was. On Kevin's 18th birthday, he revealed that he did not know why he murdered all those people. All of his life, he seemed to do things on purpose. He always knew what he was doing, so why does he all of a sudden not know why he took so many lives? I think Kevin had a lot of time to think inside of his jail cell and realized that what he did was wrong. The end of the movie left room for the audience to think about what would become of Kevin and Eva. I can't imagine how Eva could start her life over. Losing everyone that she loved and having no support from anyone had to be painful for her. If that happened to me, I would have to leave town. I would not be able to live in a town that shunned me for having a murderer as a son. It seemed like Eva was making progress for herself, the movie was basically the life of Eva after the massacre done by Kevin. Her recollections told the audience what happened.
We Need to Talk About Kevin definitely didn't sit will with me. I'm never one for horror or creepy thrillers, but the trailer intrigued me way too much for me to miss out. I chose not to read anything about it, not even the reviews, and just experience it for myself -- bad idea.
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost, I can't take John C. Reilly seriously... ever. I don't know if it's his face or his hair or his terrible performances alongside Will Ferrel, but I just can't do it. I think he was a major flaw in the casting of the film because Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller put on absolutely flawless performances. Secondly, I think it took too long for them to establish the different time periods. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention, but Swinton's hairstyles really weren't enough for me to figure it out early enough. Lastly, I absolutely loathe school violence. It freaks me out, it makes me uncomfortable, and I don't think it should be broadcast so frighteningly and, essentially, realistically. Not that any other forms of violence should be, but watching the students' reaction shots and seeing Kevin lock the doors to the school kind of ruined me a little bit. Does that make me a total wimp? Probably. Am I embarrassed by that? I don't know yet.
I think it's safe to say that I value the film from afar. It's not at all what I look for, but I'd probably recommend it to people who aren't so faint of heart. I do look forward to seeing more of Miller's work though, I hear he's always that impressive.
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I had heard from my friends that already saw this movie that it was an intense thriller that never had a lack of surprises. After I watched this movie I definitely agreed. Seeing the various flashbacks of Kevin’s life, along with his creepy interactions between the characters, made me feel somewhat uncomfortable while watching this film. However, Ezra Miller is an amazing talent and had a great performance while a role defined as being a sociopath. Just by the look on her face, she constantly appeared as nervous and very scared. Overall, the film was basically a manifestation of her mind, so everything that occurs within the movie is completely logical to her. She didn’t listen to anybody about her son being a little unstable, which is the underlying reason for everyone blaming her about her son’s actions. It became apparent to me that Kevin’s sister was conceived simply because Eva believed she lost her son. Kevin’s jealously completely took over him, which caused him to attack Celia when she was younger resulting in her losing an eye, and inevitably killing her and his father. I couldn’t believe how far Kevin went this far to gain his mother’s appreciation and approval, but regardless it lead to the murders. I also noticed the films use of close ups to depict feeling, cheerful music, depressing monologues, and lastly extremely negative interactions between many characters within the movie. I didn’t really understand why he didn’t even know the reason for himself why he committed the murders, but that’s the beauty in this film in being up for interpretation to the viewing audience.
We Need to Talk About Kevin was a disturbing movie about a terrible mother to son relationship. Normally a mother’s love for her child is unconditional, but this was not the case with Eva and Kevin. It was clear from an early age that there was something wrong with Kevin. However, when Eva first started noticing strange things, I think she took them as an attack against her, in which she tried to play the victim card with her husband. I think most mothers would have taken a different approach in this situation. They would realize that their son had some kind of psychological disease and would do everything they could to get him help instead of just giving up after the first doctor couldn’t find anything wrong with him. From the start, Eva wasn’t a loving and nourishing mother. Even her relationship with her daughter wasn’t as warm as I would expect a mother daughter relationship should be. I think the fact that Kevin didn’t feel loved and accepted by his own mother may have driven him even crazier. He probably felt like a rejected freak and shooting people was his sick way of telling the world that he clearly needs help. At the end of the movie, he is not able to give his mother any explanation as to why he did it. I think he did it out of pure insanity and he really has no explanation to offer.
ReplyDeleteI think We Need to Talk about Kevin was a movie which showed an social phenomenon is becoming increasingly serious of modern America, on the other words, it is a heavy consequence slapped America educational system drastically. Is the traditional education that is filled up by mercy, forgiveness, patience,a correct way for our children? Or the American parents should be more strict and when the traditional way does not work, they will be able to adopt some special tactics like send them to a methodist school or give them an unforgetable punishment. It is a film that is warning us, if the Amercan parents keep spoiling their children, maybe there is not only one Kevin. Not only the terrible consequence led the broken of the family relationship, but involved many innocent victims as well, those two students were killed in school, Kevin's father and sister. This film is shocking and caused us to think deeply because it is based on a real story. Anyway, the real stories are always the materials of high classical movies.
ReplyDeleteFor this film named Deep blue sea, we are able to understand it was talking about a woman who was unsatisfied her marital life, let herself go to be crushed on her neighbor, the former RAF, and began a desperate love. The shots of this film showed a hopeless heart greatly, the old-styled shooting tactic was used in this film, especially the shots just contains the leading actor and actress, it emerged their hidden emotion in most incisive, and catched the hearts of audience, let them reflect on their own love. Fcially, it is a movie just talking about a special love, but, we can figure a deeper implication from it's old version, it was talking about feminism, the moment when it's old version published is during the Cold War, at that time in western world, the feminism is rising and there were many movies with this style appeared. Actually, it is a movie telling us, women have their freedom of love, the same as men, please respect them.
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ReplyDelete“Deep Blue Sea” is horror movie that breakă„´ well typical rule of horror film. However, there are some parts showing typical elements as horror movie. For instance, there are many love scenes and girls wear bikini revealing female’s attractiveness. I think it was descent horror film about sea after the movie “Jaws” which also uses shark as fearful element. Actually, I watched this movie when I was in elementary school. I remembered, at that time, I argued with my friends about which is better movie between “Deep Blue Sea” showing shark and “Lake Placid” showing crocodile. Most of them said “Deep Blue Sea” is way better than “Lake Placid” since this film has more tension and unexpected twists to the plot. Because of “Deep Blue Sea”, I as a elementary student felt more fear for shark compared with crocodile. It is my kind of my old memory. Anyway, during movie, I got embarrassed when Samuel Jackson who looks likes main character just go into shark mouth abruptly. I think such tricky plot is attractive factor for this film. Also, it was pretty interesting that I cannot expect who will be last person alive until the end. Such unexpected story and tension make me keep concentrating the movie.
I have only had a few instances where a movie really, really sticks with me after leaving the theater. We Need to Talk About Kevin was definitely one of those instances. Tilda Swinton gave a flawless (and most definitely Oscar Nomination worthy) performance of a mother dealing with the aftermath of her son's horrific and violent decision to use his archery skills to kill his father and sister, then to attack his high school. Swinton's character, Eva, experiences nothing but struggle and confusion when it comes to her son, Kevin. Since birth, Kevin has had it out for his mother: constant screaming and crying, destructive and violent attitude, absolutely no signs of affection. Throughout the film, Eva tries her absolute hardest to develop a relationship with Kevin, which was so incredibly heart wrenching because Kevin wants nothing to do with her. After several violent acts including killing a hamster and causing his sister to lose an eye, Kevin snaps. The scenes that depict his attacks were done so realistically that I honestly felt sick to my stomach-- not even by the violent images, but simply by the thought of him doing this. Though the performances were perfect, it became difficult to follow the plot with the constant and unnecessary "flip flopping" between time periods. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the amazing performances and was truly shaken up by the story.
ReplyDeleteWe Need to Talk About Kevin was a decent film, but I felt that the characters of could have been explored a little more. The movie starts us off by showing us Eva, a travel writer who seems to really love her job. She eventually falls in love with Franklin, played by John C. Reiley, and have a kid together. After conceiving, Eva begins to realize that she is going to have to give up her love of traveling and will have to settle down to raise her child. However; instead of a child, Eva gets a hellspawn in the form of a child whom she calls Kevin. Kevin constantly cries and gives his mother trouble. In fact it seems throughout his whole life Kevin’s job is to make his mother miserable.
ReplyDeleteThe whole movie is told through Eva’s perspective, because we never really see Kevin at school or outside of the house, unless his mother is with him. I do not believe this was a wise choice because while the mother is an interesting character, I feel the movie should have focused more on Kevin, and what made him tick. Not much is really explained about him and we never really get to see why he hates his mom so much. I suppose it had to do with her not wanting Kevin to begin with, but it’s really hard to say. I suppose the director wanted to leave it open ended, but if we just get the perspective of the mother throughout the movie, then we are seeing it through a biased point of view. I would have liked to see an unfiltered version of the movie in which we could see the psychological perspective of both Kevin and Eva, instead of just Eva.
I didn’t really like the way the movie shot back and forth between the present and the past, because it shows the audience that Kevin is pretty much guaranteed to do something horrific, and in the back of your head it just makes you wonder what it is going to be. However; the director did a fantastic job of building tension, and the story was written well enough to keep me interested until the end, even if the ending was a bit disappointing.
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ReplyDeleteWe do not know Kevin why the child became the devil, home to more new members of the sister mother particularly loved more deeply Kevin deviation, shot her sister's eyes and pets, and occasionally the mother and son talk about old times, has long been to restore the broken emotions, played the father of John Lee, as men tend to be busy only see the surface of the child, no way of knowing the potential crisis that occurred in the family.
Kultida after the incident, Swindon choice to return to the workplace, to go out shopping always timid, and worry about what others accused of strange looks, my colleagues come to strike up a conversation Invitation to the Dance, Swindon, Kultida politely declined, colleagues, taking advantage of counterattack event attacked her son to let her live in a closed world from this bear the son of mistakes, do what the finger of blame are the points to the error of the mother, but the problem the film has not clearly expressed in the end by what impact Kevin will so evil, can only say that he was born evil.
Kevin how the story itself is the expression of insufficient, however, Kultida Swindon performed on the actor performance is very excellent, with the film nominated for numerous awards, bright red to create a feeling of unease, the child deteriorated Who is to blame family, social, education, and even play Kevin would reply, "I used to think I know, but I'm not so sure" Kevin how only see another dangerous angel.
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ReplyDeleteI was looking forward to seeing We Need to Talk about Kevin, and it didn’t disappoint at all. I really enjoyed how it was told out of chronological order. It let the viewer struggle to figure out what happened before it is revealed by the movie. It also leads the viewer to wonder why everyone treats the main character so poorly and justifies the final scene where the mother tells Kevin that she wants him back home. Had we seen the movie in chronological order we wouldn’t have felt terrible for Kevin’s mom before we find out about the killings and her want for him to come back home wouldn’t make sense. Finally I feel like if we watched everything leading up to the killings, then the killings, and then had to watch about the mother’s life after, that whole section would feel out of place as the climax would have already happened.
The acting in this movie was superb. At no point did I feel like the actors were merely acting as I felt always that they represented the very persona of their characters. I felt the genuine darkness from Kevin as well as his father’s innocence. Kevin’s mother was convincing throughout the entire movie and showed a variety of real emotions. Her actions were what told me if a scene was before or after the killings. You can tell because of how broken she acts in all the post killings scenes.
The audience is left with a lot of questions and doubts when they finish watching We Need to Talk About Kevin. The movie deals with family relationship and specifically the relationship between a mother and her “different” son. Her son, an obviously psychologically crazy boy, has many difficulties, ones we only come to understand, and not even fully, at the end of the movie.
ReplyDeleteThe mother son relationship is very unique and even scary at times. As a child his mother rejected him to a certain extent, mostly because he was an accident that “destroyed” her youth. Since then she has showed him love and care but all he ever did was show hatred.
There is one scene in the movie where Kevin shows compassion towards his mother, when she is reading him a short story in bed. I’m not sure what gave him that change in compassion, where he wanted the comfort of his mom, but it definitely gave the mom more security in him, when she shouldn’t have.
This movie is a typical thriller that has some scares and some gut suspenseful moments, but it is mostly a psychological thriller.
Why does what happens happen is a very common question left to the audience to figure out. For example, why is Kevin good with his father but intolerant of his mother? I believe that at the end, when Kevin’s mother asks him why he did what he did, we understand that is truly insane. He answers by saying that he did once have a reason but could no longer remember it.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a very heavy film. It is clear from early on in the film that something is clearly wrong about Kevin, the way he acts is disturbing for a child and makes the audience uncomfortable. As the film progresses, the audience becomes more uncomfortable with the clearly twisted relationship between Ezra Miller's character and Tilda Swinton's. The actors do an amazing job of acting on this strained relationship, giving it a life of its own.
ReplyDeleteThe movie focuses on the mother-son relationship, playing on Kevin's bitter hatred towards his mother and his desire to torment her mercilessly. Kevin's psychopathic nature eventually moves beyond just his mother, though, and people and things around him start to suffer. Eventually, Kevin completely loses it and slays his father and sister before killing members of his school. Kevin leaves his mother alive, though, perhaps to make her suffer more, perhaps because she's the only person he feels any connection with at all. All in all, this was a fantastic movie and I would enjoy watching it again at some future date.
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ReplyDeleteWe Need to Talk about Kevin was one the strangest films I have ever seen. The editing made this film unique, consistently jumping between time and events. Another aspect of this movie that stood out to me was the visuals. Many scenes were very visually poignant, specifically the opening scene with the mother and the tomato fight. Corresponding with the tomato fight was the fact of how red is a consistent theme and image throughout the film. Red is seen in many forms: tomatoes, blood, paint, jelly, the bulls eye of the target for the bow and arrows. Overall, I thought the movie was just all right. The first half of the movie moved quite slowly and the jumping back and forth in time made it a little confusing. Additionally, I felt that the entire movie just led up to the final ten minutes. The audience kept waiting for something to happen, and they kept waiting for Kevin to act upon his inherent “evil.” It was frustrating for me to have to wait the entire movie to see what I wanted to see. The most important relationship is clearly between Kevin and his mother. The ending is ambiguous over why Kevin killed everyone and whether or not he truly loves his mother. In my opinion, I think he did love his mother.
Lynne Ramsay is a British Film maker who has featured this suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller. This movie explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilta Swindon plays the role of the mother, Eva, in a revitalizing, tour-de-force performance. The mother struggles against her first sons increasing malevolence for 15 years. Ezra Miller plays the role of the first-born child, Kevin. Kevin’s innate evilness is measured against Eva’s own culpability. Hence, exploring the nature vs. nurture debate. It is a thought provoking, fearless and confident movie. The experimental story of the movie is novel based. It is good to see Ramsay back with a bang after such a long time.
ReplyDeleteWe Need to Talk about Kevin is an off-putting film. I felt very uneasy while watching it. This is in part because it is very clear that in the first half of the film, you are expecting Kevin to do something totally horrific. While he does do bad things throughout the film he saves his worst for the end.
ReplyDeleteThe film revolves around a family and specifically the mother Eva who is married to Franklin. When their first born Kevin is conceived it is clear that Kevin has resentment to his mother but his father is blind to it, because he believes that this is just how young boys act. One of the most impressive aspects of the film is how it made you feel sorry for the mother Eva. It breaks the norm you would expect that a mother has unconditional love for her child, but Kevin makes this impossible by literally ruining his mother’s family and life. It is this character of Kevin that seems to be the embodiment of evil, as evident when he kills his sister’s hamster by sticking it in the sink and allowing his mother to turn the disposal on as well as blinding her in one eye, that makes the film very difficult to watch.
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La Boheme was disappointing. It was my own fault though for thinking I was going to like it purely on the basis that the movie Rent was based off of it. I do not like plays, opera, or musicals nearly as much as I like and appreciate films. Nowhere close. I found it really hard to pay attention to La Boheme because it was in another language and they sang the entire time. Out of all the operas I could have seen though, at least I could follow the storyline a little because it ran along the same lines as Rent. Long story short, I have learned my lesson.
The most entertaining scene – or rather the one I found least boring – was when they all finally leave their loft/studio apartment and go out into the town. The music was more upbeat, the colors were brighter, and the mood was less depressing. Everything went downhill from there and it got harder to pay attention again.
I did find it interesting that while there are some problems back then that are still problems today (like how to pay your rent, finding a good job, or getting the girl), I think there are far more problematic situations today. Drugs, sex, and crime have been magnified since then and maybe that is something we should think about working on sooner rather than later.
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ReplyDeleteI like Rachel Weisz very much and in this movie, she is acting a role who struggles in a deep sea like love that is unknown and lost. I loved her acting because she describes the feeling of a woman who can’t love someone anymore well.
And the love of tree people was interesting. Actually, it is the old kind of subjects in Korean love story dramas. However, the subject of this film was about the deep love which is not shallow but fatal so can make them even suicide because of forgetting a birthday.
But I felt really sad, it is the love of young man and the married woman. Not between the wife and the husband. The two one sided loves made me realize the sadness of impossible loves.
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ReplyDeleteThis was a very dark, evil film, but i enjoyed it. Kevin was a very dark and cynical psychopath of a character, and the actor choice was perfect. It's very sad to think that someone could spend their entire life growing with evil intentions inside of them, and a complete disregard for human connection.
The way this story was told really hit home. It began in the middle of sprawling emotions, as Kevin is already in jail. The story is ultimately portrayed through Eva's (Kevin's mother) flashbacks. It is sad to watch this woman's life become forever tainted by such a horrible, evil son. Her reputation and grasp on life are torn apart by both the fact that her son is a cruel-hearted killer, and the abuse that she must take in the aftermath from vengeful townspeople. Good movie, but dark and frustrating