We Need to Speak About Kevin is the 2011 British-American psychological thriller drama directed by Lynne Ramsay, and adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel of the same title. The long process of development and financing began in 2005, with filming starting in April 2010.
Tilda Swinton starred as the mother of Kevin, struggling to reach an agreement with her son and the horrors she was doing. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the UK on October 21, 2011.
Swinton was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA for Best Actress in the Main Role. It was given a positive review by the critics and the audience alike.
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Plot
Teens Kevin Khatchadourian was in jail after a massacre at his high school. Her mother, Eva, once a successful travel writer, lives alone in a shabby house and works in a travel agency near the prison, where she visits Kevin. She looks back on her memory of her growing up as she tries to overcome the hostility of her neighbors.
Kevin was loose and difficult since childhood. He looks hateful and deliberately hostile to Eva, and she has a problem with her. As a baby, she cries endlessly, but only around her; as a child, he refuses toilet training, refuses Eva's efforts to show affection, and shows no interest in anything. She behaves like a happy and loving child when her father, Franklin, is watching. Eva's frustration drove her to throw Kevin to the wall, breaking her arm. Kevin tells Franklin he fell, using the incident to blackmail Eva into doing what he wants.
Franklin dismissed Eva's concerns and made excuses for Kevin's behavior. When Kevin was confined to bed by fever, Eva read a book about Robin Hood; when Robin competes in Prince John's archery contest, Kevin shows Eva's affection for the first time. Franklin gave him a bow and arrow and taught him the archery.
Eva and Franklin have a second child, Celia, who is alive and cheerful. However, Kevin is insulting and jealous. A few years later, Celia's animal marmot was killed and he was blinded in one eye by caustic cleansing fluid. Eva is suspicious, but Franklin insists that Kevin is not to blame. Eva's suspicions interfere with couples marriage and they discuss divorce. Eva comes to fear her son, as she sees more and more evidence of Kevin's sadness.
As a teenager, Kevin locked some students in the school gymnasium and killed them with his bow. When Eva arrives home, she finds Kevin has killed Franklin and Celia. On the second anniversary of the massacre, Eva visited Kevin in prison. Eva asked why she was killing. Kevin, who will be transferred to an adult prison, answers that he once thought he knew but was no longer convinced. Eva hugged Kevin and walked away sadly.
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Cast
- Tilda Swinton as Eva Khatchadourian
- John C. Reilly as Franklin Plaskett
- Ezra Miller as Kevin Khatchadourian
- Jasper Newell as a young Kevin
- Rocky Duer as baby Kevin
- Ashley Gerasimovich as Celia Khatchadourian
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Wanda
- Alex Manette as Colin
Development
In 2005, BBC Film gained the right to adapt the book as a movie. Executive producers Paula Jalfon and Christine Langan took it through the development stage, and joined the executive producer Steven Soderbergh.
Lynne Ramsay, who became available after her engagement in the film adaptation of The Lovely Bones ended, signed a direct contract, and worked on a script with Bedrooms Author Robert Festinger in 2006. Shriver was offered a consultative role in the production process but refused, claiming he "had reached the eyeballs with the book," although he expressed concern about how the film would capture Eva's role as an unreliable narrator. Production has not started in 2007, although BBC Films renewed adaptation rights early in the year. In an interview with The Herald in September 2007, Shriver stated that he had nothing to do with Ramsay about the film for more than two years. Ramsay's spokesman told the newspaper that a new draft of the draft was being prepared and, at the time of the interview was published, had not been submitted to the producers. Michael Clayton producer Jennifer Fox joined the production team in 2008; the film is expected to begin filming that year. The script appeared on the 2008 Brit List, an industry-compiled movie list compiled from the best scenarios not produced in British films. Ramsay's partner, Rory Stewart Kinnear also contributed to the latest shoot script.
Christine Langan told London Evening Standard in February 2010 that a long delay in production caused by BBC Films is having trouble financing high budgets; Ramsay rewrote scripts for movies to be made at a lower cost. UK Film Board awarded Ã, £ 18,510 for production from its development fund in the same month. Financial support is also provided by LLP Footer Investments, Caemhan Partnership LLP and Lipsync Productions, and production in collaboration with Artina Films and Forward Films.
The filming began on 19 April 2010 at a location in Stamford, Connecticut, and ended on May 28, 2010. The main filming location is J.M. Wright Technical High School in Stamford. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood composed a movie score.
Release
In October 2009, IFC Films took the rights to international sales, and pre-sold at the American Film Market. Artificial Eye distributes films in the UK starting October 21, 2011. Oscilloscope Laboratories distributes films theatrically in North America in the winter of 2011.
The film premiered in the Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where he was greeted with praise from film critics.
We Need to Speak About Kevin opened in a limited release in North America in one theater and grossed $ 24,587, ranked 53rd at the box office. The film earned $ 1,738,692 in America, and $ 5,754,934 internationally, for a total of $ 7,493,626.
We Need to Speak About Kevin released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 29, 2012.
Reception
Critical response
We Need to Talk About Kevin receive a positive review. The film currently holds a 76% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; The consensus of the site reads, " We Need to Speak About Kevin is an incredible blend of drama and horror, with fantastic performances across the board (Tilda Swinton in particular, giving one of the best)." At Metacritic, the film received a score of 68 out of 100 based on 37 critics, who showed "generally favorable reviews."
Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave him 4 out of 4 stars and said, "As a portrait of a worsening state of mind, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a good movie."
British film critic Mark Kermode from BBC Radio 5 Live named We Need to Speak About Kevin as Best Movie of 2011.
Richard Brody, in The New Yorker , writes that it "masquerades as a psychological puzzle but is basically a horror movie full of beautiful sensationalism." He argues that the film was exploited but did not explore the appeal that "bad seed" children give.
Jake Martin, a Jesuit priest and film critic, wrote in his commentary on Busted Halo that this movie is not "another installment in the post-modern film lineup aimed at attacking human desire to give meaning." to the world. "Instead, he says," We Need to Speak About Kevin actually needs to be talked about, as what is trying to do by marrying the darkest and most contemporary component of the nililistic film with the message of redemption is a breakthrough. "
Tilda Swinton was nominated for a number of acting awards, including the Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA for Best Actress in the lead role. His acting was also praised by film critic David Thomson in the film reviews for The New Republic.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Official website
- We Need to Speak About Kevin on IMDb
- We Need to Speak About Kevin at AllMovie
- We Need to Talk About Kevin in Box Office Mojo
- We Need to Speak About Kevin at Rotten Tomatoes
- We Need to Speak About Kevin in Metacritic
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