We Need To Talk About Kevin

I recently went ventured to cinema city to see the film 'We need to talk about Kevin'. I went purely to watch the film, however found myself looking at everything from a very media-ish point of view. So when i got home i just couldn't resist writing a little bit about it. 
The film itself is very dark and the story line jumps all over the place. It goes very quickly from present to flash backs, then to god knows what. The story is all about a mothers struggle to bond with her son, and because of her lack of parent relationship he turns rather psycho and kills a load of people from his school. 
The film is under the heading 'Thriller', however personally i wouldnt say that it was a stereotypical thriller. Okay, maybe it does have some of the normal conventions, such as eerie music building up the tension, and dark scenes where things appear to lurk. But its not done in a common way. The theme of thriller is conveyed beautifully. The almost very naturalistic state of the characters leaves the audience feeling extremely unsettled. Sitting in the audience all i could think was 'how lucky i am to lead such a normal life'. It makes audiences question life decisions and relationships with friends and family members.
There is extremely limited dialogue within the film, this means that audiences can really get inside the characters thoughts, almost with their own take on the situation. This adds to thriller conventions, if audiences begin to relate things with their own situations then it becomes more eerie as it is far closer to home. 
The main thing that got me thinking about media, was the glaringly obvious Mise-en-scene. Im pretty sure that even someone who wasnt studying AS media could pick this detail out. There was an extremely reoccurring theme with the colour red. The film began at the tomato festival, it then proceeded to the womans house being covered in red paint, also red jam, a red  bouncy ball, red on peoples clothing, red curtains. You name it, it was red. Another theme was  things getting splattered or squished, Kevin the  young murderer often squished jam inbetween his sandwiches, and squished his sisters cereal, also his mother squished and stamped on a water pistol with had red paint in it. Of course none of this happened by accident, it was all foreshadowing for the later events. 
I found the film extremely interesting from a media point of view and I think in years to come this film should be used as a tool in media lessons.