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Toot Renoos asked this question about We Need to Talk About Kevin:
Ok it seems pretty clear that Kevin poured the Drano into his sister's eye, but at our book club last night there was a heated discussion about Cecilia. The group was split on these two issues 1) was she simply slow, developmental not where she should have been or 2) was she so tortured by Kevin that like an abused child will not point the figure at him. Did he treatment account for her unnatural fears?
Jeanne To my mind, she is the polar opposite of her brother in every way. Where he is intellectually advanced, she is intellectually weak. Where he is fearle…moreTo my mind, she is the polar opposite of her brother in every way. Where he is intellectually advanced, she is intellectually weak. Where he is fearless and dissipated and sly, she is innocent and weak and uncomprehending. So neither is normal. One is extreme genius and corruption and ennui and the other is mentally slow, incredulous, and fascinated with anything shiny and sparkly. I toyed with the idea that one is a parody of extreme masculinity and the other a stereotype of extreme femininity that plays off the parents. The dad is a hyper sexed stereotype of a real man with a truck who votes Republican and drinks beer and loves America and the mother is something of an enigma -- foreign, darkly witty, conflicted about everything. Only the mother, in the end, is allowed to have a complex real personality.(less)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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