We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Viewers who are likely to find themselves as compelled as repelled by its fatally flawed key players.”~Washington Post

Aroview: Tilda Swinton struggles to cope with the grief and guilt of mothering a deeply troubled child in Lynne Ramsay's unflinching, stylistic adaptation of Lionel Shriver's controversial novel.

A difficult subject and a difficult film, complicated by a central character as "unreliable narrator" who is not only subjective but disturbed, and the obfuscation of the story's tragic climax, which is also carried over from the novel. What can't be blamed on the novel however are the jarring casting choices, though Swinton herself is a powerhouse as usual.

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