Antichrist by Amy Simmons

Author:Amy Simmons
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: PER004030, Performing Arts/Film & Video/History & Criticism, PER004020, Performing Arts/Film & Video/Guides & Reviews
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

The Brood children

The second type of mother, who does not conform to ideals of sacrifice and devotion, can be found in We Need to Talk About Kevin, which is also a mother’s horror story, or a horror story about motherhood. Here, Ramsay’s stark, hallucinatory parental nightmare, follows Eva (Tilda Swinton), a free-spirited travel writer whose life undergoes a radical (and, in her mind, unfavourable) disruption following the birth of her son, Kevin. Like Antichrist, Ramsay’s film boldly suggests that mothers do not always bond with their children and not everyone is programmed to be a parent. Similar to Gainsbourg’s character, Eva is constructed as a well-educated, white, middle-class woman, but behind her good intentions hides an extreme frustration with her ‘mother’ status. As a result, both women quickly develop an extreme case of post-natal depression typified by unqualified resentment towards their children.

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