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We Need To Talk About Kevin is an absolutely wonderful film I saw very recently in the cinema. The film concerns a mother who has a psychotic son who commits the heinous act of killing a large number of his class mates. The film is about the relationship between the mother and her son, whether it’s the mother’s fault that her son came out the way he did, or whether there is such think as being innately evil. The film begins with the mother’s life in ruins, we know something bad has happened but we know not what. The film tells the story in the form of memories that the mother, Eva, reflects upon. Through this way, we are shown the events that led up to her son’s violent criminal act, starting from before her son was born.

It is a fantastic film in which the time old question of nature versus nurture is called upon. The mother’s failure to bond with her son is evident from his very birth where she had post-natal depression and later could not stop him crying. Yet can one blame his violent actions on an absent relationship with his mother? I can’t wait till it’s released onto our televisions, I will go straight to sky.com/hd and watch it!