@article{article_96704, title={The Mother and Son Struggle: The Analysis of “We Need To Talk About Kevin”}, journal={Galatasaray Üniversitesi İletişim Dergisi}, pages={119–140}, year={2015}, DOI={10.16878/gsuilet.96704}, url={https://izlik.org/JA55AM48PT}, author={Aydın, Bermal and Bilgin Ülken, Filiz}, keywords={Toplumsal cinsiyet, aile, kadınlık, annelik, anne-çocuk ilişkisi}, abstract={Mainstream movies reproduce current patriarchal structure and
dominant norm patterns.But even if rarely there are movies that stay
outside the hegemonic gender roles or at least exhibit a neutral stance.
The film of this study We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay,
2011) which is an adaptaion of Lionel Shriver’s novel, asks bold questions
about gender roles and the tasks attributed to women and men. The
film doesn’t impose any idea and not declare a guilty. The main purpose
and problematic of this study is making clear that the film is positioned
outside the mainstream movies through the way it handles the issues on
family, motherhood, mother-child relationship that attributed with almost
sacred values in the modern society. For this purpose and problematic
hidden meanings in the film are being exposed through the method of
semiotic analysis. }, number={22}