We Need To Talk About Kevin
Staring:
Tilda Swinton
Ezra Miller
Jasper Newell
Ashley Gerasimovich
John C. Reilly
Trailer:
Whats it about:
First of I need to say that I have read the book from which the film is based on and loved the book, so yes as with any one that reads the book before watching a film of said book had high hopes for the movie. We need to talk about Kevin the movie is very true to the book – its about a mother and her lack of love or any kind of connection to her son, right from the start of Kevin (Eva’s Son) life until the night where Kevin completely changes every ones life for ever.
Is It Any Good:
You may have though that because I feel its very true to the book that I loved it – well you’d be wrong, in a book you can do flash backs differently to how you do it in a film – the book uses letters from Eva to Freckling reminiscing about the past, the movie has no thought of how to tell the past life from the present day and this is a real problem as you the viewer becomes lost in whats the present day, the past or the recent past. Now I don’t like to just point out problems with out some solutions (even thought the damage is done in this case) but the film makers could have set the flash backs up with Eva going to a desk to write the letters – that would have worked fine and it would have been so easy to do.
Overall: All in all this film is fine but it should have been great which is a real let down – if you know that your going from the present to past and really focus on this you may enjoy this movie – however I read the book and knew what was and wasn’t the present and even I found it a real plot killer. 3 out of 5.
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