We need to talk about Kevin Notes

• The uses of flashbacks and parellism in the structure of the film can be usefully explored. The film begins in the aftermath of the massacre, then flashes back to the events leading up to the massacre ( including flashbacks to the beginnings of Franklin and Eva’s relationship). The complex inter-realtionship of the narrative timelines culminates in the massacre itself and then flashes forward to the meeting between Eva and Kevin one year after the killing . 
• The effects of this complex structuring of time in the plot can be usefully explored by considering the opportunities it affords the storyteller for showing parallels between characters and event, and in raising question about cause and effect.
• How exposition of the narrative occurs in the film can be an intresting source of inquiry. We are presented with fractured elements of a story at the beginning that