So for my first ever review (cue cheers), I recently watched the movie, We Need To Talk About Kevin. The previews were what mainly intrigued me, and unlike most movies the previews did not sum up the movie for me in a five second window.
In the beginning of the movie we are introduced to the female lead, Eva Katchadourian who is continuously plagued by the locals of the town by means of verbal and physical abuse, including an incident where what looks like red paint is splashed all over her tiny run-down house. The movie then jumps around a little bit as if inside the characters memories, and then starts to tell the story of how she ended up where she is now.
How Kevin ties into the movie is he is Eva's son, and as the film progresses we are shown his childhood where he is....shall we say a bit of a problem child. Hardly saying a word at the age of around five or six, not potty trained, and with behavioral responses that are a bit spastic at best. Eva, being a concerned mother, takes him to the doctor assuming that there may be some sort of mental disability such as autism. Allow me to sum this up a bit: the doctor insists there is nothing wrong with him. As he grows up, Kevin does learn how to do all of these things, but his behavior becomes increasingly out of control, doing things seemingly just to aggravate Eva to the point of her thinking Kevin has a personal vendetta against her.
Fast forward to the teenage years. Kevin now has a little sister,Celia, and has matured (or rather, immatured) into your standard teenager with an attitude problem. Soon events start happening at the house that arouse Eva's suspicions about Kevin's enmity even more . Celia's pet guinea pig "mysteriously" goes missing, and it is later insinuated that the animal was shoved down the sink drain into one of those chopper thingies. Later, Celia looses eyesight in one eye due to drinking the drano that Eva used to unclog the sink....and insisted she put back in the child-locked cupboard right after using. Although Eva keeps insisting that maybe Kevin had something to do with this, her husband not only keeps making excuses for him but praises him as the "golden child".
Now mind you, this entire movie I'm wanting to jump through the screen and choke the living daylights out of this kid because just short of demonic possession this kid is a freakin' warped and shows pretty much all the signs of a sociopath. So just how do you raise a sociopath that you think is as good as gold if you are the dad? Why, give him a bow and set of arrows for his birthday of course!
I won't give away the ending, so this is the part where I tell you what I think of the movie. If you like psychological movies where it's such fun to try to analyze the character, it is a bit of a delight and very reminiscent for me of the book Wolf at the Table. As far as accomplishment of the story line however, it does fall a bit flat. It's one of those movies where you get to the end and go, "that's the end? well....okay I suppose that was decent...."
Bottom line here is that this film is very entertaining, but don't expect to glean from it some vital message. This film is best geared toward aspiring psychologists, film festival geeks, and perhaps the stephen king-ish fandom.
Link to trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGjjK5SMbJA
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