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This is another film that isn’t likely to appeal to the mass market, but has every chance of being the kind of film you really want think about. Based on the acclaimed novel by Lionel Shriver, it deals with the upbringing of, and subsequent attempts to understand, a mass murderer.
It’s a totally different situation, but I’ve heard untold cries of where are the parents, in relation to the violent crime wave that’s swept England like the pre-credits sequence of an End of The World’ movie. There are cases where that is true. Junior school children shouldn’t’ be out at night for sure; but as for the rest people in their mid to high teens, are we really blaming their parents for them being out at 16;00? at 19:00 in the middle of the school and University summer holidays? There are parents who have a lot to answer for, there’s no doubt, but as ever, it will be the parents with the least responsibility who will be asking themselves what more they may have done to prevent their children taking part in crimes and making such anti-social decisions.
Here the film follows the visits of the mother to her son, in jail for the murder of several classmates and two adults. Looking at various points in their son’s upbringing and trying to see where it all went wrong, or where it could have been made to go right.
The film stars Tilda Swinton (Chronicles of Narnia, Michael Clayton), John C Reily (Step Brothers) and Ezra Miller, as Kevin. It has been adapted and directed by Lynne Ramsey (Ratcatcher)
(Trailer has French Subtitles)...
