![]() ![]() The mistake would be to take the film apart and try to reconnect the pieces in chronological order. ![]() What kind of a kitchen has empty counters? These people live there, but they've never moved in. For much of the film, she lives with her husband, son and daughter in an expensive suburban home, and when we realize they've lived there for several years, we begin to wonder, how can four people occupy a home for over a decade and not accumulate anything? The shelves and tabletops are as barren as those in a display home. ![]() We cling to guidelines like the length of Tilda Swinton's hair to figure out where we are. The film moves without any pattern between past, present and who knows when. If she had her way, she would put her life on rewind and start all over again - maybe even as somebody else, since she's not very fond of herself.ĭirected by Lynne Ramsay, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is fragments of time, jagged and confusing, lurching around inside her mind. We gather she didn't want to get pregnant, isn't sure why she's married, is a mother who tries to mask hostility with superficial kindness. We find ourselves inside the mind of a woman whose psychopathic son has driven her over the edge. It must be something like this to have a nervous breakdown. ![]()
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