Tilda Swinton is the perfect actress in my eyes. You must be a chameleon adapting to whatever role is given to you. It is not just in her slightly androgynous appearance and demeanor but in her natural gift to act, she is perfect.

Like a wounded and terrified animal running on guilt and hindsight, Eva (Swinton) is barely living, flinching at the sound of her own name.

The United States has had its fair share of massacres at schools across the country. There have also been numerous films made, some based on reality, others in fantasy but the one thing they all have in common is the exploitative nature, focusing on the massacre itself. This is where We Need to…

The main reason I put off watching this for so long is its source material. Lionel Shriver's novel is an amazing piece of fiction that gnaws on your soul by asking the toughest questions imaginable without granting its readers the comfort of easy answers. It explores the age old discussion on nature versus nurture. It does so by relating a story about a boy committing an evil deed, presented through a series of letters written by the boy‘s mother. She is constantly asking herself whether it is her fault that her son is the way he is or whether he was born evil. It also shows how something like a high-school shooting affects a community, but moreover the family members…

There is no point. That's the point.

Where did Eva go wrong? That question may never be able to be fully answered or understood, because in order to fully comprehend what happened with Kevin, we would need to delve deeper into Eva's own clearly troubled past, with which we are never graced a glimpse of and never really need one. This is, after all, a story of her offspring; or more appropriately, her relationship with him and how it shaped him into the teenager he becomes. Lynne Ramsay's brilliant narrative structure constantly shifts the viewer back and forth between several different years in Kevin's life- first as a baby and toddler, then as a young child (still, curiously, donning a…