We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)

This movie...pretty stunning. I didn't know much about the book or the film before I went to see it. It's a strange, eerie story. To me (what I basically got out of it) is that it's about a mother trying to deal with the consequences of her son, who was responsible for killing students on a fictional Columbine-esque rampage. It's told in a series of flash-backs to when she first had Kevin and his childhood and it shows life after the incident. In a way it seems to be re-tracing Kevin's life, like the mother is trying to understand what made Kevin do what he did.

It's really bloody brutal and scary, to be honest. Kevin is really hard to love. Actually, I hate the guy. I spent the majority of the movie cursing under my breath and hoping I never ever have a child like him. He spends his entire life making his mother's life miserable, and the only time he is nice to her is when he is sick and then the next day he goes back to being an asshole in order to get her hopes up and then drag them down. But, on the other hand, Eva (the mother) didn't really want him in the first place. She was unhappy when she was pregnant to him, and suffered post-natal depression.

Tilda Swinton was aaaaamazing, and Ezra Miller who played the older Kevin was fantastic. He really looked the part - he has a very strong, frightening look. He's a bit of a babe to be honest, but his character...no. The casting was magnificent for the actors who played Kevin as a toddler, as a young kid and as a teenager. They looked like they were actually the same person and it was filmed over a series of years.

My verdict? Go see it!