The film We Need to Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay, is about a mother who struggles to love her abnormal and peculiar child. Eva, who was once an up-and-coming travel writer, falls in love and gets married to the love of her life, Franklin. When Kevin, her first-born, is born, he appears to loathe her. Eva blames her son Kevin for ruining her life of traveling and is not so fond of him either, but she still loves him because he is her son. Franklin is the one who has the strongest relationship with Kevin and introduces him to archery. The film, We Need to Talk About Kevin, illustrates drama, horror and malevolent, all with a mixture of psychological episodes that Kevin, the main character, experiences. From child to young adolescent …show more content…
The only time Kevin showed affections to Eva is when he was 4 years old and was running a high fever and asked Eva to read him a book about Robin Hood. When Franklin interrupts them, Kevin spurs out and tells him to leave. Franklin then, buys him his first ever bow and arrow set and teaches him archery. As he gets older, he continues to practice and advances to bigger bows. When Kevin purchases bike locks from online, Eva asks him what for and he responds by saying it’s for a project and she shrugs and says “okay.” This hobby and purchase of his eventually leads to a massacre at school lead by Kevin, himself. On her way to the school, Eva is calling and calling Franklin that there was an incident at the high school. Finally, when she gets to the school and to the front of the crowd, she sees the police cut through one of the bike locks that was delivered to her house and realizes that Kevin’s responsible for killing the multiple students. When the doors to the gym are open, he voluntarily walks out and lays on the floor to be handcuffed. As he is being cuffed, he gives Eva a smirk and then gets taken away. When Eva arrives home, she notices that the curtains from an open door are gusting from the wind. When she walks out to the backyard, she sees Franklin and Celia’s arrow-penetrated corpses on the floor with the sprinklers on. Meaning that before the massacre, Franklin and Celia were already killed. Explaining as to why Franklin wouldn’t answer the
...ing horror movies. Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies” is a well written essay with convincing analogies, comparisons, and urban humor. With the use of logos, ethos and pathos in unison he easily wins his argument persuading his audience to believe his thesis, convincing normal people they are mentally ill. Kings argument convinces his readers not only that mental illness lies within us all, but that without horror movies we wouldn’t have a way to fix our mental state. If sanity is being normal, and insanity is madness, then how is it that being normal is watching insanity repeatedly?
A young boy gets older and even though they struggle financially his parents make sure they teach him the honest values of life. But in this film George Jung is a high school football star and wants to see other options and forget what values his parents have taught him. The young man from a small place gets millions from distributing cocaine and ends up losing it all. The behaviors of George Jung become intense with curiosity as he arrives in California to attend college with his friend Tuna.
In the novel, Kevin is celebrating his birthday with Maxwell, Grim and Gram, and his mother. While he gets his dream gift, a laptop, he shows Grim how to play Online Chess. When Maxwell goes into the kitchen, however, Kevin has a seizure that later causes Freak’s sad death. Though this strikes the heart harshly because of Freak’s last words, the movie has more of a darker ending to Kevin. It’s Christmas after Kenneth Kane got put back in jail. They were celebrating Christmas together as they exchanged gifts (similar to the birthday) but instead of the seizure, Kevin dies that night due to his heart grew too big for his body.
When Kevin sees his father dying in the woods and is overcome with grief, he begins to forget a...
This film contains some classic examples of the kinds of real life issues adolescents deal with. Issues such as popularity, peer relationships, family/sibling relationships, sex, and struggles with identity are all addressed in this ninety-minute film.
The first topic that is found in the movie that was taught in class is conflict. Conflict is expressed disagreement over perceived incompatible goals. Although it may seem it, conflict is not always a negative thing. Conflict is needed and can help growth of relationships. Many conflicts are started because people have different conversational styles. In class, we learned that there are guidelines that one should follow in order to help prevent conflict or help solve it. The guidelines include clarifying goals, helping others save face, using constructive criticism skills, using empathic listening skills, monitoring nonverbal be...
The lives that these men live makes them cruel and separate from the world, which in return makes having an actual loving relationship nearly impossible for them. Michael Sullivan, played by Tom Hanks, was and enforcer of the Chicago mob. Michael Jr, played by Tyler Hoechlin, was a 12 years old boy who became curious about what his father did for a living after question by his younger brother Peter. Michael Jr. decides to hide in the car and find out what type of work his father does. After seeing a man be killed, by his fathers co worker Michael Jr. attempts to run away, but can’t find a escape route. Sullivan works for John Rooney, Paul Newman, who was the mob boss and focused only on how to make money and said very little words. Rooney son Conner, played by Daniel Craig, is a member of the mob and gets jealous over the relationship that Sullivan has with his father. Sullivan finds out that Conner has been stealing from his father Mr. Rooney. This is where the movie’s scene for emotional showdown begins, because Sullivan sees Rooney as a father and Rooney sees Sullivan as a son that he never had. Sullivan explained to Michael Jr. why the relationship between him and Mr. Rooney was so strong, because he gave them a place to live when they had no where and gave them money when they had
It amuses us to watch what we know will never happen. As King had said in his essay, “The fun comes from seeing others menaced - sometimes killed,” (King, “Why We Crave” 2). Accordingly, King had proposed that “we’re all mentally ill,” and theses emotions are part of the Human Condition (1). Just as we cry to release our sadness, we also need to find a way to express our insanity. We need horror films as cathartic release to be able to be “let loose to scream and roll around in the grass” (2).
horror movies, King argues that “we are all mentally ill” (345). He expresses that we all
Early in the film , a psychologist is called in to treat the troubled child :and she calmed the mother with a statement to the effect that, “ These things come and go but they are unexplainable”. This juncture of the film is a starting point for one of the central themes of the film which is : how a fragile family unit is besieged by unusual forces both natural and supernatural which breaks and possesses and unites with the morally challenged father while the mother and the child through their innocence, love, and honesty triumph over these forces.
The movie centers around Eva as she struggles to deal with the aftermath of her son’s murders, the story of Kevin being told intermittingly as she tries to go about her life. The mother’s guilt is apparent as she is slapped by a dead student’s mother in the street, for when a man tries to intervene, she just says it’s alright, it’s my fault. She takes the guilt on by herself as her new, small and shabby home is repeatedly vandalized with buckets of red paint being thrown all over it and her car. Even at the new job she manages to find, she is treated as a pariah, as if it were her fault her son did those things. As you can see, mental disorders can cause quite a lot of hardship, not just for those suffering from them, but the people around them. Of the mental disorders, personality disorders are the hardest to treat, as they are ingrained in a person’s way of thinking and living life. It is likely Eva’s son, Kevin, has a conduct disorder and is well on his way to developing antisocial personality disorder, and perhaps even being a psychopath, resulting in Eva’s subsequent depression.
Miller, F. C. (1999, September). Using the Movie Ordinary People to Teach Psychodynamic Psychotherapy With Adolescents -- Miller 23 (3): 174 -- Acad Psychiatry. Academic Psychiatry. Retrieved December 10, 2010, from http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/23/3/174
The film maker in Short Term 12 was trying to communicate the problems the adolescents experience, and also how problems from our youth such as abuse can be carried into our future if we don’t take care of ourselves and the issue. Grace in
The film exhibits and analyzes the story of NFL player Michael Oher’s life through high school as he endures various adversities and difficulties in his life. It tells Oher’s story of being the son of a cocaine addictive mother and absentee father, who is homeless due the circumstances of his family. Despite not having either of his parents in his life he did have Big Tony, who was his friend’s dad. Big Tony would allow Michael to sleep on his sofa some days when he did not have anywhere else to live and he also was the main cause to Michael being admitted to the Wingate Academy Christian School. At this school Michael meets S.J., who is the son on the Tuohy’s. S.J. begins a friendship with Michael at a time when no one else would and on a rainy day after S.J.’s thanksgiving play, the Tuohys see Michael walking. They ask him ...
This paper looks at the movie; A Dangerous Method directed by David Cronenberge is based on true life events that happened on the eve of the World War 1. This movie brings out the theories, techniques, and the central characters in the early history of psychoanalysis. It brings out the effectiveness of psychoanalysis method and shows the risks and dangers encountered when entering the unconscious mind. This movie takes a look at these through the life of Carl Jung who was one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis. It also takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationship between a doctor, his mentor, and his patient. The paper will begin by giving a short synopsis of the movie. It will then give an analysis of the movie based on concepts in psychology (Cronenberg, 2011).