While most modern-day hipsters develop an affectation of dissatisfaction, Kevin Khatchadourian in We Need to Talk About Kevin is an OG hipster, having come out of the womb completely dissatisfied with life. He wears boring, bland clothes that are a couple sizes too small, having outgrown "normcore" before the word was even invented. Kevin shows us it's not just the angry outcasts we should be worried about—it's the ones who seem to not care about anything at all.
Questions About Dissatisfaction
- Kevin doesn't hate everything. Why does Kevin like his squirt gun? And why does he like it when Eva destroys it?
- What dissatisfies Eva most about pregnancy and motherhood?
- Why won't Franklin allow Eva to express her dissatisfaction with Kevin? How does this make things worse?