We Need to Talk About Kevin Themes

Back when she was first lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "It takes a village to raise a child." Easy for her to say: Chelsea Clinton didn't murder anyone with a bow and arrow...

Don Henley tried to get to "The Heart of the Matter," and he decided that "it's about forgiveness" even if you don't love someone anymore. Or maybe you never did. In We Need to Talk About Kevin, it...

While no one uses the word "sociopath" to describe Kevin in We Need to Talk About Kevin, he fits the profile. He's got few, if any, real friends. He lies and cheats. He's got a complete lack of gui...

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 w...

Many people believe in a traditional family unit—a mother, a father, 2.5 children, maybe a pet and a picket fence. But in We Need to Talk About Kevin, Kevin Khatchadourian tries to prove that hav...

Michael Chabon must be quite the catch. In 2005, Ayelet Waldman, wife of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, wrote that she loved her husband more than...

If we were to do an acrostic for Kevin, it would look like this:K—KruelE—EvilV—ViolentI—InsaneN—Narcissistic We cheated a bit on K, but it's true. Kevin seems to only care about himself....

A person's home is supposed to be his or her safe place. That's why the classic horror movie trope of "it's coming from inside the house" is so scary. But We Need to Talk About Kevin shows that you...

Mother. Father. Wife. Husband. Son. Daughter. These are all identities, but they are also ways to identify someone based on their relationship to someone else. In We Need to Talk About Kevin, Eva i...

"The name on everybody's lips is going to be… Kevin." If we learned anything from the musical Chicago, it's that the public is fascinated with true crime. Crimes simultaneously attract us and rep...