![]() This is just the beginning of Ramsay's red onslaught which becomes almost laughably overdone (no grocery store stocks an entire wall of tomato soup cans). After we see curtains billowing inward to the sound of a lawn sprinkler outside, Ramsay cuts to Eva crowd surfing over revelers gleefully smashing tomatoes, a scene which resembles carnage in an overhead shot. ![]() If one is unfamiliar with the book or with Spain's La Tomatina Festival, the film's opening sequence could prove a bit disorienting. ![]() Still, a terrific performance from Tilda Swinton and the three beautifully cast actors tagged to play Kevin at various ages (the amazing Rock Duer, Jasper Newell and "City Island's Ezra Miller) combined with Kubrickian compositions and great sound design mostly overcome the film's faults. Reilly, "Cedar Rapids," "Terri") is presented a completely different face from his son, finding the fault instead with his wife in "We Need to Talk About Kevin." Cowriter (with Rory Kinnear)/director Lynne Ramsay ("Morvern Caller") has been drawn to macabre tales involving the young (she was originally attached to "The Lovely Bones" before it was mauled by Peter Jackson), but in adapting Lionel Shriver's novel, she leans a little too far into the self consciously arty and the horror aspects of the tale at the expense of the psychological. ![]() Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton," "I Am Love") loves her life as a globe trotting travel writer based out of New York City, but things change dramatically when she has her first child. ![]()
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