Eve's Bayou Psychology

A movie to remember The first lines of the movie Eve’s Bayou were “Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old.” The very first lines uttered by the main character Eve Batiste grasp your attention with no intention of letting it go. Eve’s Bayou is a movie written and directed by an African American actress and director Kasi Lemmons in 1997. Eve’s Bayou is a well written and directed movie with an amazing cast. This movie also happens to be Kasi Lemmons’ directorial debut. Nevertheless, Eve’s Bayou is a tragic drama that tells the story of the Batiste family, which encompasses lies, deception, betrayal and secrets from the perception of the middle child

Louis batiste revels in the attention he receives from women. Eve’s mother Roz Batiste played by Lynn Whitfield is a well-rounded housewife who so in love with her husband that she left her own home for him, she also puts up with his very questionable bed side manners with his clients. Eve’s older sister Cisely Batiste played my Maegan Good is the apple of her father’s eye, she is also on the brink of adolescence. Cisely over looks her father’s faults while Eve strife’s be brutally honest.in the movie Eve sees her father in the barn with another woman after a party, when Eve tells her sister about it she tells her that it was her imagination and that she didn’t see anything, Cisely believed her dad when he told her that her mother is the most beautiful woman in world. Cisely is able to overlook her father’s fault because she loved him so much. She believed every wrong her father did was because of her mother. The

It makes the viewer question how their truths are influenced by our perspective and experiences. In addition to impeccable directing the movie is accompanied by outstanding cinematography and amazing wardrobe. The cinematography by Amy Vincent is simply outstanding she brings every scene to live with an amazing color scheme that tells a story of its own. For example, when Mozelle gets a premonition the dark colors and the harsh texture that is used is breathtaking and also when Mozelle tells Eve about her past husbands is it just impeccable. The way that scene was directed was just amazing. The director brings Mozelle’s story to live and makes the viewer almost feel Mozelle’s pain. As Mozelle tells her story we can see the reenactment in the mirror. One of the most important scene was the night of the storm. Nobody really understood what happened. When Cisely tells her part of the story the kiss was just an innocent father daughter kiss but when the director tells the story from Louis’s perspective the first kiss was “the sweetest kiss a daughter could give to her father, but the second kiss was a kiss between a man and a woman” (Lemmons, Eve’s