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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 KhatchadourianFile:Kevin's speech.ogg |
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, but privately relishes having taken Eva down to his level,
The only time that Kevin and Eva show any affection for each other is when a nine-year-old Kevin suffers 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. Kevin is also responsible for Celia losing an eye, having told her to wash it out with cleaner fluid.
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, after Eva goes to work, Kevin kills Franklin and Celia by shooting them with his bow and arrow, and then goes to 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".
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