Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) by Royben14 — 25 Apr 2017

Yes... I know this film came before Manchester by the Sea but i've had watched it afterwards, and I cant stop myself from comparing these two films, I might have like this film if not.

We need to talk about the score, a six for me is generally for films that have flaws but I can enjoy, this film I cant enjoy but it is a very well made film so I cant call myself an amateur critic and ignore this fact.

The film tries to give meaning to unimportant things or things you could figure out your self, the main conflict is of a woman trying to live life after an horrific tragedy, and now comes the part where I compare the two films, Manchester by the Sea has this conflict, but not as the main one so the film doesn't need to pad run-time like the pretty short film I'm reviewing right now, they both give clues very carefully throughout the film, but Manchester has more than one story to tell in those details, We Need to Talk About Kevin has only one, and all the other details are just meaningless in the bigger picture, and you can realize generally what happened in the first 15 minutes of the film and I don't need the whole background of the event from start to finish told me for no reason, and from start to finish is in the very start, around 15 years before the event takes place start.

Manchester tackles this kind of story better than the other film and there is no reason to watch this one, its meaningless and it thinks it is impotent and good because it delivers the story in a unique way, the only problem is the story isn't long enough for a feature length film to be told about it.