Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Tilda Swinton
This film is about Kevin, a psychopath whom we see right from his birth till he commits a massacre and goes to jail. Although this film isn't conceived as a character study of Kevin, it does that strongly. The kids who played Kevin in the childhood in different ages, all of them were terrifying. Usually psychopaths are portrayed as unpredictable in a lot of films, in this film Kevin looks clearly dangerous right from he being 5 years old. I don't know why the parents couldn't see that.
There's a terrific scene where Kevin's mother takes him out for dinner and when she tries to talk to him about his life, he dodges her saying how she will ask her about irrelevant details of his life and how she will use this as an excuse to bond. He knows that he can't feel anything, he'd probably accept that he's a psychopath if you present him the definition but he doesn't feel guilty for it. He thinks that others are sentimental fools who are trying to bond with people by being kind to everyone and everything.
It's also interesting how Kevin points out that no one's interested in life events and how people would switch the channel if all he'd do was get good grades in geometry. He talks about how people are interested in sensational stories more. I felt that the only activity he liked doing was archery, but probably he had these intentions behind practising it. I was thinking that he could eventually develop a passion for the sport, but every part of his brain looks for destruction. It's not even his mistake, he's born like that and he needed help throughout and I wish the parents saw that and acknowledged it.
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