Kevin Had Serious, Serious Issues
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joyinacceptance — 13 years ago(April 02, 2013 02:25 PM)
He was feeding off of his Dad's constant state of anxiety. Notice during the school play when Steve Martin started making that exact same scrunched up face. When Steve finally chilled, his kid improved too.
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Kuato_and_George — 12 years ago(April 06, 2013 05:21 AM)
I had a relative who used to throw major tempter tantrums when he was a kid. Over the years, it was suggested he get involved in martial arts. Guess what? It worked.
Kevin had issues, there was no doubt about it. But your idea that he needed to be locked away like he was Michael Myers is an overreaction. Crying a lot and worrying too much - which was essentially Kevin's problem - is hardly a reason to lock somebody up in the nuthouse.
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soso — 11 years ago(May 28, 2014 08:47 AM)
So Kevin in this movie was a lot like me when I was his age. Around 7-9 years old, I went through a phase where I was highly, super sensitive. I realize now that it was because I had a lot of anxiety at this age and was very neurotic (for reasons too long to list here - while I had a mostly happy childhood, it was peppered with more trauma and stress than a kid that age deserves). Looking back, I also realize I had bad coping skills at the time and could not deal with things that went wrong and would do what Kevin did in the movie (burst into tears or have a fit).
I eventually grew out of it and grew up to deal with stress way better than anyone who knew me as a kid expected. My Mom has said to me several times that I am the strongest out of my sisters & I - made me feel very happy when she said this!
Kevin definitely had emotional problems. But like me, kids can grow out of it if given the proper guidance and nurturing. I don't think he had mental issues at all, was just a high-strung kid. -
woollybully07 — 12 years ago(August 01, 2013 09:39 PM)
Don't you love people who when they critique movies and something that's different then what they were in similar situation instantly means this movie is wrong, you know because EVERYONE is going to have the exact same experiences as you.
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daughterofolaf — 12 years ago(October 14, 2013 02:58 PM)
Wow. The OP must be extremely immature and oblivious to the human condition. First of all, it's an 8-year-old kid, not an adult, secondly the freak out was not just about the retainer. Did you pay attention to anything that happened prior to the retainer disappearing?
Let's just hope that someone like you will never be a parent. That would be a sad day for any kid you have who has any sort of emotional problems. To imh that the kid should be in a looney bin is beyond ridiculous.
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shiftylee — 11 years ago(July 08, 2014 07:01 PM)
I was just as bad when I was Kevin's age. I had serious anxiety issues however I was a perfectionist at the same time. The lightest issue in front of other people caused by to flip out. As I got older I sort of outgrew it but still I have issues with the same type of anxiety.
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bruce-129 — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 07:05 PM)
Whatever,but you seem so self-centered to judge everything else, even a fictitious movie by your own life? I tell you, you'd make a crappy parent. Go read some books by doctors about child-rearing a lot of kids do things like this because they have an underlying medical problem. Stop dwelling on just your own point of view, you don't know everything, and in fact it sound like you know less than normal, and you have a tendency to talk about what you know less of.
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Ricardo-36 — 10 years ago(January 18, 2016 11:56 AM)
It's realistic. I find this movie unbearably painful to watch because I see myself being like Kevin (maybe even worse), with a case of emotional imbalance and Aspergers, among other things. It did not turn out so well for me in the end.
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bkerber — 9 years ago(August 24, 2016 05:28 AM)
I totally identified with Kevin - when this movie came out and now. I was a kid like Kevin. He has anxiety. It's actually pretty common. Kids with anxiety worry about all kinds of things and they get extremely upset when things don't go the way they thought they would. They put a lot of pressure on themselves to make everything right. So yes, losing his retainer would have been a BIG BIG BIG deal to a kid like Kevin. Had I done something like that at that age, I probably would not have slept for days.
He doesn't need to be in a mental hospital, he needs adults who understand that he deals with anxiety and he needs to learn coping skills to manage it.
We understand these things now. In 1989 we were only beginning to understand what anxiety in children was.