Still from We Need to Talk About Kevin If there is anyone to be given credit for completely decimating the idea that mother and child are supposed to be star-crossed lovers blindly enmeshed in a warm glow, it would be psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. Author Lionel Shriver is getting contemporary credit for illustrating this in her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin , as is Lynne Ramsay who directed the film: and Tilda Swinton who so beautifully performed in it. When it comes to