It broke my heart when they would show flashbacks of her life before she had that kid, where she was travelling and happy, loving her newly married life, and then she ends up becoming nothing other than a prisoner in a life she didn't really want to begin with, and that life turns into a nightmare.St Just Monday Morning Reading Group 30h November 2020. She is so brilliant anyway, and the way she portrayed that character was really complex, which I loved. I still do feel really awful for her, though. On the other hand, many other people have kind of distant relationships with their mothers, and they don't go off on a killing spree.
I only questioned that because I've been reading about serial killers a lot lately, and many of them seem to have that kind of relationship with their mothers early on, so that made me wonder about that. That was mostly how I felt during the first viewing, and I still do feel horrible for her, but with the second viewing I started to wonder if she was really a reliable narrator, or if the lack of bonding with him somehow influenced him. My brother was really troubled by the way she responded to her kid, and thought it was awful when she was talking to him like "Mommy was happy before little Kevin came along, you know that?" Whereas I felt really really sorry for her and could understand where she was coming from. The first time I watched it with my family, and we all loved it but had different reactions to what was happening. Ultimately, the film does not give as much insight on Kevin as the book, instead relying solely on Eva's perspective of memories while the book allows a much more complete picture of all the flashbacks, most likely pieced together by Eva's investigation of Kevin's actions, however I felt this was still a very interesting isolated character study and worked well for the medium. However, I felt the film was still perfectly casted, and the stark cinematography was very appropriate for the subject matter, in particular I loved how Ramsay captured Kevin's triumph in the gym, the image was in my mind for a good week. The ambiguity of the mother and son's relationship is also much more out front, it brings much more empathy to the character of Kevin, instead of the near impenetrable portrait Ezra Miller painted. I highly recommend the book, not to say I was dissapointed with the film version, it just couldn't go near as in depth on the evolution of a psychopath like the book did.
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