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Eve's Bayou Reflection

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Of the films viewed in the second half, the one that impacted me the most is Eve’s Bayou it is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by a female named Kasi Lemmons. The story is told through the eyes of an older; Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) as she reflects on her life, the film then starts off with a ten-year-old girl Eve who lives in a prosperous African American community in Louisiana. One night, the Batistes hold a party, and Eve, her older sister Cisely (Meagan Good), and their mother Roz (Lynn Whitfield) and her husband, the father of the other two girls and the local doctor; Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) seems to be having a lot of more fun dancing with Matty Mereaux (Lisa Nicole Carson). Eve being upset her father did not dance …show more content…

Why it impacted me the most is because we get in inside look of the Bastile family, they seem like the perfect family because inside the household is a beautiful wife and her beautiful kids with her successful husband who is a doctor, the family seems perfect but they are falling apart very second; Louis is the kind of person that affects everyone around him, mostly negative but Roz and Cisely refuse to see him that way because they love him to much unlike Eve who is starting to see who he really is and even wishes death upon him; she is the only one who sees the family is being torn apart. It changed my mind because it shows how even though something is perceived a certain way, it might not necessarily be true and we have to keep in mind that some people go through a lot of more things than others. The Bastile family is one that has to learn to overcome and cope; they have to cope with death of Louis and overcome the anger and hate they felt toward each other since

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