The Lychee Scene - Kevin
How useful has an ideological critical approach been in understanding the narrative resolution of your chosen films?
(When looking at the films from a perspective of intense study, what can you find about the director's ideologies of feminism etc)
Cinematography:
-The scene begins with a shot of a reflection of Kevin eating in the glass table. There are two different ways that Kevin is seen by his parents. It is a reminder to the audience that Eva is reconfiguring the past.
-Kevin is positioned centre frame, the audience's gaze is directed towards him, this reflects that Kevin's status and power is dominant over both of his parents.
When Eva is in the Diner, she is on the edge of the frame, maybe because she is being separated from Kevin, this makes her an unbalanced person. There is a lot of dead space within the frame, isolating Eva in the present moment.
Contrastingly, she is in the centre of the frame in the breakfast sequence which shows her strong similarity with Kevin. The extent to their similarities presents them as practically the same as each other.
This encourages the spectator to almost view them as the same being, which links to the question of
conflict between nature or nurture, are women in society merely designed to be mothers or do they have a different role. The director suggests that it is nurture plays a key role in the upbringing of a child.
Kevin is centre frame and symmetrical, as is Eva. Kevin between the two parents at the table show that he is splitting up his two parents. This ironically represents the typical middle class perfect family. symmetry= stability.
Extreme closeup of Kevin eating the lychee.
Mise En Scene:
Kevin is wearing a t-shirt that looks like it is blood splattered, actually balloons. Lynn Ramsey may be making the point that Kevin is actually the victim, suggesting in ideology that it is nurture rather than nature that has a bigger impact on upbringing. Kevin in white blends into the background however Eva and Franklin are made to look like outsiders from their own kitchen, adding towards the point that Kevin has all the power.
-Green is a very prominent background colour, green is a natural colour, associated with growth and nature; suggesting that hostility is embedded within Kevin's nature.
Eva and Kevin have extremely similar haircuts. This highlights their extreme similarities.
Even all of the objects on the table are placed perfectly in symmetry with each other. The out of shot symmetry in the present could suggest that Eva no longer according to the societal expectation of what a woman should be, fits in with being a mother. Therefore she is unequal, an incomplete person.
What is the significance of Kevin spitting out the Lychee when the mother is not there?
IT draws your attention to the fact that it might not have happened, it may be Eva's imagination.
Eva cannot know that he spat the lychee out. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR. Spiteful. Eva wants to prove that she is innocent by trying to show that evil is embedded in Kevins nature.
The lychee resembles a glass eye, this specific memory of Eva represents how she associates it with his evilness.
Editing:
Sound:
-Eerie, alien like non-diegetic music
-Diegetic hyperreal crunching sounds
-The sound of the lychee being opened is hyperreal
Performance:
Kevin looks bewildered as he is told by his mother that she is concerned that he would feel responsible.
Kevin bites the lychee animalistically and this is complemented by the sound and the cinematography, the extreme closeup, shows how messy he is, inhuman, not etiquette. This is the way that Eva sees him. Eva's perspective is that Kevin is trying to antagonise her.
Kevin and Eva both speak very slowly with often pauses.
The farther act deferential of Kevin which reflects Kevin's monopoly over the family.
We don't know very much about Kevin as a character, we are always being shown him from the biased perspective of Eva, her perspective warps the portrayal of Kevin as evil.
(When looking at the films from a perspective of intense study, what can you find about the director's ideologies of feminism etc)
Cinematography:
-The scene begins with a shot of a reflection of Kevin eating in the glass table. There are two different ways that Kevin is seen by his parents. It is a reminder to the audience that Eva is reconfiguring the past.
-Kevin is positioned centre frame, the audience's gaze is directed towards him, this reflects that Kevin's status and power is dominant over both of his parents.
When Eva is in the Diner, she is on the edge of the frame, maybe because she is being separated from Kevin, this makes her an unbalanced person. There is a lot of dead space within the frame, isolating Eva in the present moment.
Contrastingly, she is in the centre of the frame in the breakfast sequence which shows her strong similarity with Kevin. The extent to their similarities presents them as practically the same as each other.
This encourages the spectator to almost view them as the same being, which links to the question of
conflict between nature or nurture, are women in society merely designed to be mothers or do they have a different role. The director suggests that it is nurture plays a key role in the upbringing of a child.
Kevin is centre frame and symmetrical, as is Eva. Kevin between the two parents at the table show that he is splitting up his two parents. This ironically represents the typical middle class perfect family. symmetry= stability.
Extreme closeup of Kevin eating the lychee.
Mise En Scene:
Kevin is wearing a t-shirt that looks like it is blood splattered, actually balloons. Lynn Ramsey may be making the point that Kevin is actually the victim, suggesting in ideology that it is nurture rather than nature that has a bigger impact on upbringing. Kevin in white blends into the background however Eva and Franklin are made to look like outsiders from their own kitchen, adding towards the point that Kevin has all the power.
-Green is a very prominent background colour, green is a natural colour, associated with growth and nature; suggesting that hostility is embedded within Kevin's nature.
Eva and Kevin have extremely similar haircuts. This highlights their extreme similarities.
Even all of the objects on the table are placed perfectly in symmetry with each other. The out of shot symmetry in the present could suggest that Eva no longer according to the societal expectation of what a woman should be, fits in with being a mother. Therefore she is unequal, an incomplete person.
What is the significance of Kevin spitting out the Lychee when the mother is not there?
IT draws your attention to the fact that it might not have happened, it may be Eva's imagination.
Eva cannot know that he spat the lychee out. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR. Spiteful. Eva wants to prove that she is innocent by trying to show that evil is embedded in Kevins nature.
The lychee resembles a glass eye, this specific memory of Eva represents how she associates it with his evilness.
Editing:
Sound:
-Eerie, alien like non-diegetic music
-Diegetic hyperreal crunching sounds
-The sound of the lychee being opened is hyperreal
Performance:
Kevin looks bewildered as he is told by his mother that she is concerned that he would feel responsible.
Kevin bites the lychee animalistically and this is complemented by the sound and the cinematography, the extreme closeup, shows how messy he is, inhuman, not etiquette. This is the way that Eva sees him. Eva's perspective is that Kevin is trying to antagonise her.
Kevin and Eva both speak very slowly with often pauses.
The farther act deferential of Kevin which reflects Kevin's monopoly over the family.
We don't know very much about Kevin as a character, we are always being shown him from the biased perspective of Eva, her perspective warps the portrayal of Kevin as evil.
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