We Need To Talk About Kevin Essay

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Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin offers an intense story that offers an intense character in Kevin himself. There’s a lot of aspects of this film that makes it unique such as the plot, character design, and the theme of parenthood. This film shows how a relationship between son and mother that is not the best, and shows how it turns out to be a blood shed film at the end when we see a high school massacre. The plot of the movie is set as Kevin being difficult from when he was a child. Eva, who is Kevin’s mother, has trouble bonding with her son, who appears to behave in a certain behavior that he thinks will torment her the most. The design of the characters really incorporates a deep color of red. It appears when we see Eva and Franklin conceiving Kevin is compared to spawning of the devil. Red is present when we see it on Kevin’s clothes as a …show more content…

The color red is really seen everywhere throughout the movie and appears to be bloodshed. We see the color red, which represents violence. in the beginning of the film where Eva is covered in red while at a festival in Paris. We notice that red is splashed on to her house in the beginning scenes. The character of Kevin really looks very evil from the beginning and end of the film. The way he shows his facial expressions is what makes him look villainous. The way Kevin is dressed throughout the movie, he wears skinny tight jeans and wears a tight shirt that seems to be a size too small. The intention of the design of this character is to make Eva feel troubled. For Eva’s character she is seen in baggy clothes which hides her slender body, and also she seems weak. Looking at Kevin and seeing the way he is dressed it seems that he’s not a monster. It seems that he is a normal kid that lives a normal life. But looking at his facial expressions throughout and the way he acts towards his mother, we can conclude that he is truly an evil

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