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We DON'T Need to Talk About Kevin, for

posted 8 years ago by aliza_tvito
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the very movie is a common horror flick, masquerading as a sophisticated thriller. Its intrusive mannerism forces the actors into becoming a detail of its nightmarish pattern, instead of letting them create the characters of flesh and blood.

I don't know if Ms. Ramsay has children. Well, I think it's perfectly OK not to have kids - as long as a childless lady Director (as well lady Writer) doesn't get an ill-advised idea of making movies (or writing novels) about Motherhood, even torturous one. Or the plain revulsion against motherhood (and maybe even children) was the source of... well... inspiration there, who knows.

NB. Too bad that young Ezra Miller's outstanding talent was wasted on the "character" of one-dimensional vampire, but to exploit the three adorable kids for this infant-phobic enterprise - is unforgivable sin.

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[–] recklesscow 8 years ago

The book is a lot more complex than that, so really it's just a lackluster adaptation of superior source material.

[–] aliza_tvito 8 years ago

I did read the book, and I don't see it as superior to the movie. Its written by the lady who is childless - not a problem at all - by herself, who knows about parenthood (I suppose) only by observing and "researching" it, and IMO it shows profoundly, that is a huge problem. NB. ""For Terri /// One worst case scenario we've both escaped" is the epigraph of this book. Speaks volumes...

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