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Eve's Bayou
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A 1997 Southern Gothic drama directed by Kasi Lemmons and starring Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson, and Lynn Whitfield.In 1962, Eve Batiste (Smollett), named for the founder of their hometown, is the middle child in one of Louisiana's most sophisticated and prosperous families. Her sister, Cisely, is 14 and her brother, Poe, is 9. Her father, Louis (Jackson), is a doctor, and her mother, Roz (Whitfield), minds the family. One night during a party, Eve catches her father with another woman, Mrs. Moreaux.Eve confides in her aunt Mozelle (Debbie Morgan), a sultry fortuneteller. The two are close due to a shared sense of the supernatural. And as Mozelle struggles with her own Cartwright Curse dilemma, the family is in for a summer that changes their lives forever. The movie was directed and written by Kasi Lemmons, and produced by Samuel L. Jackson. | |
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Pizza Boy Special Delivery | |
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Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Louis sleeps with quite a few of his female patients while on house calls, to the point that women feign illness just to be alone with him. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Mozelle after Elzora spitefully tells her that her next husband will die like the other three. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: When a cuckolded husband, who is CLEARLY drunk and very angry, tells you not to speak to his wife again under threat of death...it is wisest to err on the safe side. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The movie's most pivotal scene hinges on the fact that neither Louis nor Cisely remember exactly what happened the night their unhealthily-close relationship went too far. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: One of the promo spots for the movie includes a woman telling Eve, "If you tell anyone, I swear I'll do you harm." It sounded like one of Louis' extramarital conquests seriously threatening Eve if she told anyone about it, though in reality it was her aunt, most likely speaking in hyperbole. | |
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Widow Witch | |
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Widow Witch: Mozelle, who has gone through three husbands at the start of the movie. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: The central plot of the movie. Did Cisely kiss Louis, or did he abuse her? Conflicting accounts are given by those involved and the movie never gives a definitive answer either way. In the director's cut, there is an additional character who sees what happens, but he's mute, so no one else will ever know. | |
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TheSixties | |
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The '60s: The film takes place in 1962. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: How Mozelle's secret lover dealt with her second husband. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: It's not said exactly why or what lead to Elzora and Mozelle having bad blood. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: The eponymous bayou is almost a character itself. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: "The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old, my brother Poe was 9 and my sister Cisely just turned 14" . | |
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Fainting Seer | |
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Fainting Seer: Mozelle passes out after having a vision and interpreting it as one of the kids getting hit by a car. Turns out Eve was falling because Louis pushed her out of the way of a gun before he was shot to death, and a train just so happened to be passing at that time. It didn't even hit her, it was just nearby. | |
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Parental Incest | |
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Parental Incest: Maybe. It's never truly known what happened between Cisely and Louis. | |
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TheRashomon | |
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The Rashomon: To some extent, with what happened between Cisely and Louis. Cisely claims molested her, while Louis' letter that Cisely came onto him and he reacted violently. Eve does see what happened with her second sight but it's not revealed, leaving it up in the air. | |
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Middle Child Syndrome | |
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Middle Child Syndrome: How Eve feels compared to Cisely and Poe, feeling like The Unfavorite. This is probably why she developed such a close bond with her aunt Mozelle, as her parents probably baby Poe and award more freedom to her Cisely. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Roz had tried her best to keep everything looking happy and normal despite knowing full well her husband is a total whore. Much of the movie deals with her facade breaking. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: Lynn Whitfield is the only actor in the cast who's actually from Louisiana (born and raised in Baton Rouge), but she's also the only one who neither has a strong (fake) accent nor speaks French at any point in the movie (though it's implied that Roz understands it just fine). | |
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Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: This rule is violated when Eve finds an undelivered letter written by Louis to Mozelle, his sister. According to the letter, the two had a heated argument where Mozelle accused Louis of raping Cicely, and Louis wrote her the letter afterwards when he was calm enough to explain his side of the story. It would have been nice to see the argument, since the two siblings had next to no direct interaction in the movie. | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter: Cisely. She sneaks out of the house, goes to the hairdresser and gets a haircut despite being told to not leave the house and in one scene she mouths off to Grandmere and rolls her eyes at Roz. | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted. Mozelle uses her powers to help people find missing loved ones. | |
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Wall Bang Her | |
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Wall Bang Her: How Louis and Mrs. Moreaux get it on in the carriage house. | |
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Nostalgic Narrator | |
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Nostalgic Narrator: Eve | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: In a rage, Eve goes to Elzora and commissions a curse to be put on her father, saying she was "For certain" that she wanted him to die Well, he does, when he's shot to death. Also coupled with Didn't Think This Through, as she actually meant a voodoo doll to enact the curse. | |
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Oedipus Complex | |
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Electra Complex: Cisely toward her father Louis. Maybe. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Louis. Despite Lenny warning him that he'll kill him if he talks to Matty again, he decides to talk to her anyway. Let's just say that Lenny wasn't bluffing. | |
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Gossipy Hens | |
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Gossipy Hens: A few women at the Batistes' party in the beginning. They are even the rare variety that provides exposition, revealing to the audience that Mrs. Moreaux sleeps around and that Louis is the best colored doctor in Louisiana. | |
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Southern Gothic | |
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Southern Gothic | |
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Hot Witch | |
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Hot Witch: Mozelle, seeing as she's considered quite attractive and was just as promiscuous as her brother, Louis. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: While Mozelle, Eve, and Elzora have genuine precognitive ability, whether or not their magic works beyond that is not clearly explained. | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist: Louis and Cisely remain skeptical of Mozelle's precognition, despite her proven track record. | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Averted. Cisely starts her menstrual period during the movie. And a VERY big deal is made of it, including showing her bloody underwear. | |
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I Wished You Were Dead | |
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I Wished You Were Dead: Eve goes to a voodoo priestess to find a way to kill her father; soon after, he is shot by Mrs. Moreaux's husband. | |
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Hollywood Voodoo | |
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Hollywood Voodoo: Generally averted. Hoodoo is accurately portrayed but is referred to as Voodoo (albeit by a little girl who probably doesn't understand the differences). | |
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Wicked Witch | |
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Wicked Witch: Elzora is a voodoo-flavored one. She and Mozelle have some unexplained bad blood, and she likes scaring children for laughs. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Older!Eve (through narration) begins the film by claiming the summer she's about to recount was the summer she killed her father. This implies that she killed him herself, but as we see, it was her leaking of information that lead to someone else killing him. | |
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Cartwright Curse | |
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Cartwright Curse: Mozelle kind of has this problem. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Mozelle's husband Harry's relationship with Eve. | |
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