This is a very heavy film, the story of a mother who is overcome with love for her strange son, but as he grows older, his words and actions become more and more dangerous, until he starts to commit crimes.

There is a scene in the film where Eva is walking in the street pulling a pram and to her left is the noise of a drilling machine and to her right is the sound of little Kevin crying. The combination of the two makes Eva very annoyed and this combination of sound and image was very immersive for me. The sound in the first half of the film uses a lot of noise elements, the endless crying of the baby and some city noises, which can reflect the endless irritation that the birth of this baby brings to Eva.

I also heard Chinese instrumental music in the film, which appeared when Eva was teaching Little Kevin to pass the ball and Little Kevin deliberately failed to do so. This instrument, which I assume is the Pipa, plays a piece called Shi mian mai fu, which is a Chinese idiom meaning that there are enemies on all sides and there is a sense of tension. This musical archive I thought was very well used, as was the nerve-wracking sound of the strings, and Eva’s unease and uncontrollable feelings towards her son.