Film Analysis: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“We Need to Talk about Kevin” was released in 2011 is the film I chose for my film analysis. Out of the five films that I could choose from, I watched We Need to Talk About Kevin interested me the most and I acknowledged many interesting, and unique cinematic techniques that I was eager to talk about. The two minute sequence that I have chosen I felt was particularly interesting. In those two minutes of footage the personalities of Eva, Francis, Kevin and Celia are portrayed perfectly and clearly for the spectator to seethe psychopathic betrayed by Kevin through the use of mise-en-scène, sound effects, music and flawless acting. The first thing that caught my eye during my first watch of “We Need to Talk about Kevin” was the strong use of the color red which is highly symbolic of the inevitable bloodshed. Red is seen continuously throughout the film haunting Eva as a constant reminder of her …show more content…
`Psychopathic personality' was once widely used but was superseded by `sociopathic personality' to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now `antisocial personality disorder' is the preferred term. The term psychopath is commonly used incorrectly in the media to describe someone who has done something considered “evil.” Terrorists, mass killers and bombers often get labeled with this term before anyone has caught them, let alone had time to make an assessment of them. It’s become shorthand for people who do terrible things, and that disconnect from the reality of the situation is a problem in the way we view people and their actions. By labeling someone a psychopath, it’s easy to write them off as evil and never look at the actual factors that go into their actions. We can ignore what’s going on without really taking a good hard look at why people act the way they