Plot : Eva Khatchadourian gives birth to a son Kevin. As she raises Kevin, Eva becomes concerned by his seemingly malicious actions, his acting in a constantly defiant way and showing intelligence beyond his years. However, Kevin seems perfectly angelic whenever her husband Franklin and others are around. This causes Eva to become increasingly withdrawn and at wits end. Into his teens, Kevin?s actions become even nastier and more calculating, including blinding his younger sister in one eye, eventually culminating in an act of savagery that has him placed in jail. I became aware of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay with her first film Ratcatcher (1999), a harsh but lyrical work about life growing up in Glasgow. Lynne Ramsay gained a great deal of critical attention with her next film Morvern Callar (2002), which I must confess left me cold. Ramsay was apparently also set to make the film of The Lovely Bones (2009) before it was taken over by Peter Jackson and, going by the style she demonstrates on We Need to Talk About Kevin , would almost certainly have made a far more interesting film out of it than Jackson did after he allowed his ridiculous pretensions to get the better of him. With We Need to Talk About Kevin , Lynne Ramsay adapts an award-winning 2003 novel by female writer Lionel Shriver. We Need to Talk About Kevin is a variant on the evil child thriller. This is something that has a genesis that goes all the way