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'We need to talk about Kevin'

Having children is one of those things which brings people joy, and a lot more meaning to there life, but this is one film which would make you think otherwise. Lynne Ramsey's last outing 'Morvern Callar' way back in 2002 (a film I have yet to see), and what a film to choose as a comeback, Lionel Shriver's best selling and very chilling book.

Basically a a fusion of scenes present and past, 'We need to talk about Kevin' is about a mothers difficulty trying to connect to her first born child, with post-natal depression with one scene where the mother Eva, stands next to a street driller in a very busy New York just to drown out the sound of her crying new born, and the sheer evil of the 'Kevin', who we see as a baby, toddler and a teenager (Ezra Miller) . The scenes flip back and forth from the bringing up of Kevin and the present where Kevin's mother Eva's (Tilda Swinton) life is changed, with no family now around her and being victimized by the people living around her. The pieces start to fall into place and you start to work out the story very soon into the movie.

This is not the easiest movie to watch, and is very powerful to the point it will leave you maybe changing your view on having children. But quite simply, this is brilliant. This is Tilda Swinton's movie, where she delivers in my view a performance worthy of any best actress award going today. Ezra Miller seems to have a bright future ahead of him, he is very cold and very convincing as someone you can easily dislike very much by the way he plays between his Mother and Father (John C. Reilly). The way the film is shot is well done, with superb direction from Lynne Ramsey.

Of course this is a difficult watch, which will make you feel a bit uncomfortable and leave you maybe thinking about it for a few days after.

After the summer blockbuster season has finished, we have here a stripped down, very intense, gripping roller coaster of a drama/thriller. Well done Lynne Ramsey, one of the films of the year.

5 out of 5