The mind-numbing repetition in the second act brought down what was otherwise a great movie.

04 Mart 2012 & Kevin'in tek buyuk dusmani ve ayni zamanda vazgecemeyecegi seyin annesi olmasi, anne-ogul iliskisinin bir baska boyutu.. anlatimin yonetmene ozgu olusu ve bu karakterli anlatimin filmin her karesine sinmis olmasi gozumde buyuk bir arti. izlenmeli. http://www.eksisozluk.com/show.asp?id=26589942

These are my favourite kind of films: the ones that just affect you, right down to your core. I really liked the non-linear story structure. It gave such a sense of foreboding. Tilda Swinton gives an amazing performance, without ever giving the audience an emotional release. The entire film was like that, really - it held back, making everything very tense. The rest of the performances were great too. The film is dark, disturbing, unnerving, realistic, powerful, violent, and captivating.

Apart from some problems I have with the ending, this is a strong addition to an already strong year in film. It can be easy to get tired of films that jump around chronologically, and the film can be jarring to start with, but it settles and ends up working quite well. It's an impressively put together film with a shockingly snubbed performance from Swinton; it's only the ending that derails it, and even then not enough to cripple a recommendation.

Awful, cliche filled directing combined with a shitty script makes for a really painful experience. Apparently some children are just born possessed by Satan.

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Haunting. Tilda Swinton is a reluctant mother who must come to grips with the monstrous actions of her son.

Profoundly unsettling, often coming off as a realistic psychological horror. Swinton is amazing and both Newell and Miller are disturbing in their respective portrayals of the deeply troubled Kevin. As a viewer you want the parents to get him professional help early on, rather than struggle privately, but the film makes it clear that Kevin is a manipulative and calculating individual. The film shows enough to disturb without getting graphic, but leaves many questions about Kevin's psychopathy.

Finally a movie that shows what it's like to be a mother of Damien (Kevin?!), son of satan, when you have a circus clown for a husband. It's not all bad - Swinton creates a very strong character and there are some fine filmmaking, especially use of colour and sounds to create a distinguishable atmosphere. But even atmosphere sometimes gets overplayed, if I was to guess - to compensate weak script.

This film skillfully renders the nuanced emotions of its narrative with its dreamlike tone and Swinton's traumatized performance. I was drawn in by the film's enthralling descension, the stark inevitability of its result, and the hopeless turmoil left in its wake. In addition to its central tragedy this film delivers keen social commentary, layering ugliness and spectacle on and over this tragedy to create an environment that questions the framework through which we experience such events.

Didn t work for me at all. With the husband it has one of the weakest characters i ve ever come across. Furthermore they overdid the whole jumping from one time to another time in the story which destroyed any flow this movie needed.

It will move you, unsettle you, disturb you, and disgust you. And it does all these things unapologetically while avoiding any ham-fisted attempt at rationalization. The non-linear narrative approach is an added stylistic bonus that only enhances the confusion of the mother which is portrayed effortlessly by the always dependable Tilda Swinton.

I've believed for some time that Tilda Swinton is the most talented actress working today, and this movie solidifies my opinion. She's phenomenal. Her character's grief, guilt, and confusion pour out honestly and convincingly. What a nightmare situation she's living. This could very well be considered a horror movie. It's like The Omen, only set within reality. The disjointed narrative works well. This is a compelling, horrifying movie that I won't soon forget.

Perfectly acted through and through. Given the clear psychopathic tendencies of Kevin, the film shows just how much a parent can love a child, no matter the obstacles.

Haunting.

Just when you think Swinton cannot top herself, here comes 'Kevin', a terrific showcase for her with an equally terrific (and terrifying) script and atmosphere set-up. Ramsay uses sound design to masterful effect.

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This boy is not as unusual as you might think. There are people like Kevin in prisons around the world. This is more true-to-life, than many care to think about. A person possessed by his own destructive ego. What's so shocking about that.

It's The Omen meets The Good Son, and the result is unsettling. The only issue is, with the supernatural element absent, how can Kevin's bad behavior as a baby-on-up be explained? The acting is fantastic, and the story telling is well done, so the lone skip in reality is very forgivable.

My soul collapsed!

Can't believe how well they casted this film... If anything, it'll keep your head spinning for days - so, so nasty and depressing, really. It's a real problem delivery this film, with the wonderfully infected philosophical problem of how to deal with the fact some people actually raised and created some of the monsters of this world. How has, say, Anders Breiviks mother been able to live on after Utøya? Makes you think.

Starts off a bit like a psychological horror, & remains threatening & unsettling for its entire runtime. Swinton is extraordinarily brilliant, giving a performance that sees her display an impressive array of emotions & states. Her support cast is great too, with Ramsay's foreboding & stylish direction displaying an effective use of colour. The only thing that holds this movie back from greatness is the editing & structure just starts to unravel in the last quarter. Still highly recommended.

We Need to Talk About Kevin gets under your skin from the first frame. It's the kind of film you often have half a wish to stop watching, yet know you can't. To its detriment, a lot of the psychological aspects of each character went unexplored and the unsettling feeling of intense dread it left me with was coupled with one of feeling annoyingly short-changed. It may be a film too impressive for its own good; because it's so great, I resented it for not being perfect. Still, one of 2011s finest.

Effective horror that mostly suggests Kevin's psychopathy is innate, while leaving doubt by emphasising the first-person focus on the mother and by not showing certain events she did not herself witness. Some scenes were not as well-judged as others, some aspects of the story did not quite make sense, the incessant focus on the mother's suffering was perhaps a little overdone, and the tension was slightly dissipated prior to the conclusion, but overall quite interesting and thought-provoking.

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a deeply agonizing film. It is that through the director's astonishing skill of making the intuitively innocent turn to wicked, beautiful to depressive and ordinary to frightening. Kevin's character, being totally psychopatic compared to the one of his mother, is maybe even too disturbing. Still, considering the mother's situation, all horror seems appropriate. It's powerful, shocking and audiovisually superb cinema.