Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) by Ruth C — 12 Aug 2013
Tilda Swinton stars as Eva, a formerly successful travel writer now resorting to work as an administrative assistant. She's also being treated as a pariah because she's identified as "Kevin's mother". In intermittent flashbacks, we see how her life has slowly unraveled over the course of 18 years since she birthed Kevin.
Tilda Swinton does a wonderful performance of being the guilt-ridden mother running over and over the scenes of her raising Kevin. You can sense she's wondering if all she did caused the eventual horrific scenes that Kevin committed right before his 16th birthday.
This movie does a great attempt to reveal how might a parent be coping after his/her child committed horrible acts. It also makes you wonder how might nature versus nurture affect a child in his/her development stages.
Tilda Swinton justly deserved her Oscar Nomination. I definitely felt sorry for her as she copes with raising Kevin.
This review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) was written by Ruth C on 12 Aug 2013.
We Need to Talk About Kevin has generally received positive reviews.
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