Zusammenfassung der Ressource
We Need To Talk About Kevin
- Info
- Directed and adapted by Lynne Ramsay
- Based on 2003 book
- Deals with issues of disconnection and violence
- Controls and Constraints
- Developing and funding for the film was a lengthy process
- Small budget
- Shot in a short time frame
- Used real life locations
- Sets were creatively changed
- Level of on screen violence was kept to a minimum
- Narrative
- elliptical editing constructs a non-linear narrative
- Told from Eva's perspective
- Covers 3 different times in Eva's life
- Viewer is engaged to discover why she is in this situation
- Violence in avoided through focussing on
- character's reactions and emotions as well as symbolism
- Context
- Violence in schools
- Alternative approach by focusing on the reasons behind the actions of the perp
- Increases in school massacres in the US in late 80s and early 90s
- Calls for increased communication in families and communities
- Suburbia, AD and Rep of women
- Opposes these representations and challenges the dominant ideologies of the audience
- Eva opposes the traditional representations of a mother
- Scene deconstruction
- Narrative expectations
- Establishes a dream-like quality
- And temporal ambiguity
- Engages the audience
- Conveys Eva's psychological state
- Portrays Eva's feelings of grief, guilt and shame
- Mother-Child relationship
- Eva and Kevin have a severely fractured relationship
- Health and support systems have failed them both
- Jump cuts are used to represent fractured relationships
- Suggests that a conversation about these issues need to occur
- Resolution
- Offers a limited sense of closure
- Reasons for the massacre remain unknown to both characters
- Eva is positioned as the victim
- Relationship starts to heal as they communicate
- Target Audience
- Mature due to the themes and narrative structure
- Enjoy alternative productions
- Challenged by the representations of motherhood,
- Suburbia and the American dream