We Need to Talk About Kevin

While her clueless and complacent husband (John C. Reilly) primarily sees the sweet side to their chilling, cold-blooded, mentally disturbed, psychotic, violent son in this dark, powerful, extraordinary, riveting, superbly acted, nonlinear, 2011 film, which has striking cinematography and is based on Lionel Shriver's novel, a worn-out, frustrated, frightened Connecticut travel agency clerk (Tilda Swinton), who is a pariah barely breathing in her own hell, has tried to connect with her son from the time he was a colicky and continuously crying baby (Rock Duer), to a highly manipulative and clever young boy (Jasper Newell), and finally to a cruel, bullying, and scary teenager (Ezra Miller) who controls the household, his parents, and his abused sister (Ashley Gerasimovich).
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