![]() ![]() In Morvern Callar, Samantha Morton grieved her boyfriend's suicide. Though Ramsay does away with Eva as a first-person narrator in the film, she still retains Eva's point-of-view throughout. She is less interested in the nature vs nurture debate, more in the crippling weight of societal expectations of motherhood. But Ramsay is less interested in the blame game, more in how trauma can put us in a vicious cycle of self-inflicted pain. Putting herself through a painful process of introspection, she revisits moments from well before Kevin's birth to the eventual tragedy. The novel by Lionel Shriver relates the story through a series of letters Eva writes to her husband Franklin. ![]() It's been 10 years since its world premiere at Cannes, and we need to talk about what made it such a haunting meditation on motherhood. ![]() An unshakeable experience and a daring experiment in film form, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin challenged conventional wisdom on what makes for a good adaptation. The past and present intertwine as Eva recalls Kevin’s formative years from childhood to adolescence, hoping for clues on what went wrong. Left to pick up the pieces is his mother, Eva (Tilda Swinton). The murder spree began with his father and sister suffering the same fate earlier that day. Three days before his 16th birthday, Kevin Khatchadourian (Ezra Miller) kills several students, a teacher and a cafeteria worker in his high school gymnasium. ![]()
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