We Need To Talk About Kevin - Movie - Spoiler Alert

[Recidiva]

Watched this twice last night. Terrifyingly effective movie, excellent performances. More revealing the second time through after getting accustomed to the filming style and even the sound cues.

Anybody else seen this and care to share a shiver?

 

[Sean]

Haven't seen the flick, but I've read the book. It's excellent.

 

[Recidiva]

Haven't seen the flick, but I've read the book. It's excellent.

It was beautifully done. I was surprised it was a BBC production and at the beginning I thought it was going to be about the soullessness of Americans. But although there were a couple slips in accent, she did an amazing job.

It's worth watching because the performances are exceptional. A good quarter of the movie is just looking at facial expressions and getting lost in them.

I thought it was going to be one movie and it turned out to be a completely different one. Her early life experiences with her son were strikingly similar to mine, but about fifteen minutes in I realize...this is an entirely different universe from mine.

I lost all sense of it having anything to do with my country or my life and it's just about this horrifying relationship.

 

[kalle2201]

Have not seen it yet so will have to wait until it makes it to the nordics

 

[Recidiva]

Have not seen it yet so will have to wait until it makes it to the nordics

Definitely worth picking up.

I'm intrigued by the format of the book also, Wiki says it was done in a series of letters, which I'd need to see. The movie was much more of a straightforward story telling, although disjointed. You had to figure out that you could keep track of which time period they were in by her haircut.

 

[blobfish]

Have not seen it yet so will have to wait until it makes it to the nordics

Hej! God dag från Amerika.

 

[Recidiva]

The story intrigues me, but I could not get into the book at all. I am looking forward to the movie though.

It was very delicately balanced and gave a lot of reasons, but no explanations, which I actually like as I don't think anybody really knows what creates monsters.