We Need to Talk About Kevin

Movie • 2011 • Drama  

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This movie contains 40 potentially triggering events.
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I have no idea why there are so many Yes votes. There isn't a dog in the entire movie. There is a guinnipig that is insinuated to die but you don't actually see anything. There is definitely no dog death.
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Does an animal die?
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kinaleighmac
Celia's guinea pig disappears, and Eva realizes it's in the garbage disposal after it's too late. It is not graphic, but the idea is disturbing.
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deaddogfanclub
A guinea pig is killed (offscreen) and a character explains the death to a young girl: ‘he is having a party in the garden now with new animal friends’
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Evandergiovanna
Not prominently, but there are. From what I remember there's a distinct scene where they cut to a piece of jelly covered bread covered in ants.
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romanbath
[Spoiler] The beginning of the movie operates on the premise that the mother feels like she is insane because her son is cruel to her and nobody else.
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deaddogfanclub
Eva gets frustrated and is violent towards Kevin when he is a child.
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deaddogfanclub
Eva throws Kevin against a wall when he is a child, breaking his arm. She regrets the act and attempts to show Kevin how much she loves him. Kevin is rough with his little sister, insulting her and attacking her with a vacuum cleaner.
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pinkwill
the amount of alcohol shown in the movie and some dialogue could indicate the mother struggles with alcoholism.
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Prescription medication taken by the mom is shown frequently and (spoiler warning) Kevin claims to be on Prozac or something on trial (not shown)
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kinaleighmac
Eva drinks a lot of wine following a traumatic event, and is implied by Kevin to have drank a lot before the event as well.
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A brief shot shows a young girl tied up with Christmas decorations
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Not assaulted, but harassed a bit in a work place environment at a Christmas party
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deaddogfanclub
Kevin is cut when Eva throws him against a wall. We see him holding his arm and later see the healed scar.
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pinkwill
well someone said under the eye injury section that it is implied someone ate a human part, and that it is a confirmed fact in the book, so.
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kinaleighmac
Celia loses her eye in an accident involving drain cleaner. It is not graphic but she is shown with an eye patch and bandages
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patchsadams
Kevin's mum pushes him and it shows his arm visibly broken
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Rainb0sherb
not physically, but many of Kevin's actions are done to, in a way, psychologically torture his mother
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kinaleighmac
Celia is found dead towards the end, and high school students are killed, both by Kevin using a bow and arrows.
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linnealauridsen.ll
The father is shot with arrows by his son.
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deaddogfanclub
As a child, Kevin fills a water gun with paint and sprays it on the walls of Eva’s bedroom. In retaliation, she takes the water gun and stamps on it while Kevin watches.
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pinkwill
not really kidnapped but students get locked up in the school, so kind of ?
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HannahNeuman
One scene shows kids dressed as clowns for Halloween attacking the mother’s house and car. Another shows a computer virus with a clown that pops up. Another shows a doctor’s office with clown photos all over it.
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Are there razors?
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KO14
A younger Kevin soils his diaper to spite his mom
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Anonymous
Poop Kevin diaper
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Novamatic
Around 55 minutes in. Once she picks the boy up from the floor, look away for about one minute. She is cleaning up vomit from the floor. No actual vomiting, just the aftermath.
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pinkwill
when Kevin is pushed against the wall/floor, the sound makes it clear that the act was intense enough to cause an injury, but it's nothing like what you might hear in other movies when a character breaks a bone. it's mostly a loud bang. other sounds in other scenes might indicate that something gore happened, while not being triggering in themselves the context makes it hard to listen.
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deaddogfanclub
Franklin and Eva sit in a hospital waiting for Celia. Shots of injured students being wheeled into ambulances.
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pinkwill
Kevin's condition is never stated, so him being autistic is entire plausible and he does go through a lot of abuse because of his behaviour, even as a little kid (like not talking or sliding the ball back).
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Anonymous
At around 1hr 24 Kevin picks apart a lychee and eats it. The sounds are loud and gross and I had to skip ahead
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Nunya33
*SPOILER*


During the school shooting, Kevin locks the door of the gym and main door of the school with bike locks. It does give the sense of being trapped in.
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deaddogfanclub
Slight shaky cam at some moments in the film where we are seeing from Eva’s perspective.
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deaddogfanclub
Repetitive use of bright colours and emergency siren imagery which could be interpreted as flashing. Some quick, blurring flashback sequences.
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bigtallray
kevin cries relentlessly as a baby
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pinkwill
a character briefly looks at the camera, it startled me.
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kinaleighmac
Kevin's birth is very painful for Eva, we hear her screams but don't see anything explicitly
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pinkwill
a character literally rants about fat people eating too much according to her, and ableist terms such as the r-slur are used.
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kinaleighmac
Kevin calls his sister the r slur
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Eva, unprompted, comments to Kevin at the mini golf place that fat people are always eating, that the only reason for fatness is eating too much. (More bias/prejudice than jokes.)
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kinaleighmac
Eva walks in on Kevin masturbating, he continues and gives her a creepy smile. There are also sexual scenes between Eva and her husband, one of which Kevin walks in on as a child.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Rainb0sherb
not in the usual sense, but Kevin's mother walks in on him masturbating and proceeds to continue while making eye contact with her until she closes the door and leaves
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Is there BDSM?
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pinkwill
a long scene of a male coworker staring at Eva's legs.
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bigtallray
eva and kevin hug, offering a slight bit of hope. not necessarily all doom and gloom, but still not happy
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thecatsaysmeow
No, but there are a few scenes where characters push their faces into water and the camera shows it from underneath the water meaning you see it clearer so that could be slightly triggering for some people.
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kinaleighmac
Gory images of people who have been shot by arrows
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kinaleighmac
While the weapon used is later revealed to be a bow and arrow, there is a school shooting and the images associated with one (news reporters, ambulances and police cars, etc)
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