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| “ | It's like this: You wake up and you watch TV. Get in your car and you listen to the radio. You go to your little job or your little school, but you're not going to hear about that on the 6 o'clock news. Why? Because nothing is really happening. Then you go home and you watch some more TV or maybe it's a fun night, you go out and you watch a movie. I mean, it's got so bad that half the time the people on TV, inside the TV, they're watching TV! And what are all these people watching? People like me. | „ |
| ~ Kevin Khatchadourian |
Kevin Khatchadourian is the titular main antagonist of the 2003 Lionel Shriver novel We Need to Talk About Kevin and its 2011 film adaptation of the same name.
He was portrayed by Ezra Miller, who also played Credence Barebone in the Fantastic Beasts film series, the Trashcan Man in the 2020 TV miniseries adaptation of The Stand, the Dark Flash in The Flash, and D.A. Sinclair in Invincible.
Biography[]
Kevin's mother, Eva, takes the role of narrator throughout the book, documenting his actions through letters to Franklin Plaskett, Kevin's father and Eva's husband. In these letters, Eva both details her relationship with her son before and after he committed a school massacre in which he murdered several classmates. Eva also visits her son in his prison cell, where they interact like hostile strangers.
From a young age, Kevin despises his mother and is obsessed with causing her pain and discomfort, such as spraying ink on her maps and resisting toilet training. He also takes pleasure in harming other children; in grade school, he manipulates a girl with eczema to gouge her own skin. He has no friends and shows no interest in school or after-school activities, except for his one hobby, archery. Eva eventually grows so frustrated with Kevin that she throws him against a wall, breaking his arm. Kevin tells Franklin it was an accident after falling from a trash compactor when he got home, but privately relishes having taken Eva down to his level,
One of the only times that Kevin and Eva show any affection for each other is when a nine-year-old Kevin enjoyed hearing the story of Robin Hood being read by his Eva and when suffering from a severe stomach flu and allows her to take care of him, even resting his head on her knee. It does not last, however; after he recovers, he becomes even more hostile to his mother.
While Eva sees Kevin for what he is, Franklin is convinced that his son is normal, and makes excuses for everything he does. Kevin in turn manipulates his father by affecting a polite, friendly demeanor. This dual nature eventually leads to both Eva and Franklin conceiving Kevin's sister, Celia, motivated mostly by Eva's desperation to have a child who loves her, and to them getting divorced.
In a desperate attempt at reaching towards her Son Kevin, she plans effortlessly on making plans of hobbies such as taking him to golf, only for him to derive many people outside while ignoring her, Later when he joins for dinner, Kevin derails her of any positive response by mocking anything being without receiving manages to conceive Eva into snooping onto finding Kevin's CD's marked with a message I love You, Eva being curious about gaining anything from what Kevin feels about decides to input the Disk onto her personal computer, which quickly encrypts pop-ups of explicit images before shortly splashes into an error revealing as a Virus with characters of text show a clown mocking her, sabotaging Eva's personal files and ruining her entire computer, she then hands the CD back to Kevin who expresses less care, giving how much anything else cares.
Kevin is also responsible for Celia losing an eye, having told her to wash it out with cleaner fluid before replacing it for an artificial one, while being the one deriding her of any uncertainty such as leaving her bind with Christmas Ribbons with her mouth covered when Eva came home to see her when Kevin played a game called "Christmas kidnapping", including using foul words when she brings him the wrong beverages to berate Eva further including using a vacuum to entangle her hair that harms her even going as far by killing Celia's hamster by mutilating onto the garbage disposal on the kitchen, even tauntingly eating a lychee fondly round in-front of Eva, representing an eye that frightens her away and goes outside to hone his Archery skills.
Upon learning that his parents are getting divorced, Kevin decides to break his mother's spirit once and for all. The day before his sixteenth birthday, He first buys a package of Bike Locks online, to back up the claim by firmly stating he brought them for a song by selling them at his School, he then waited when after Eva goes to work, Kevin kills Franklin and Celia by shooting them with his bow and arrow then leaving their bodies outside the backyard of the entire house intentionally for Eva to discover when she comes back after hearing of a shooter, and then goes to Gladstone High school and kills several of his classmates. As intended, Eva's life is ruined; in addition to losing her husband and daughter, she becomes a pariah, with the public blaming her for Kevin's actions, convinced that she somehow "warped" him.
Eva visits Kevin on the second anniversary of the massacre, shortly before he is to be transferred to Sing Sing. Uncharacteristically nervous and subdued, he apologizes for his actions, while admitting that he does not know why he committed the murders. Eva realizes that she at last loves her son.
Personality[]
Kevin is highly intelligent, but he is also cold, manipulative, and devoid of conscience and empathy; it is implied that he is a sociopath, although neither the novel nor the film explicitly identifies him as such. He is adept at mimicking emotions he does not actually feel, however, and he can be charming enough to get others to give him what he wants, particularly his father.
While he hates his mother, she is the only person in the world he comes close to respecting because, unlike his father, she sees through him. It is suggested that one of his motivations for committing the massacre was fear that, if his parents divorced, his father would get custody of him, and he would lose his "worthy adversary".
Quotes[]
| “ | Eva: Why do you have something like that? Kevin: I collect them |
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| ~ Kevin expressing his nihilistic view to Eva after infecting her computer. |
| “ | Not know the context? I am the context. | „ |
| ~ Kevin upon eavesdropping both of his Parent's decision. |
| “ | I used to think I knew.. Now I'm not so sure. | „ |
| ~ Kevin showing some degree of remorse to Eva, and last lines before departing from the visit. |
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