Firstly, in my opinion, Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou turned out to be totally different than I expected, because at first, when it begins, I thought it was going to be some kind of “slavery” film shown in the ‘perspective of the slaves’, just because of the scenario that they used (the house near the bayou) and because it’s a typical kind of theme used by other non-black directors to do. I really liked it and it made me think about fraternal love a lot. Moreover, the end is shocking and it makes the viewer realize that the family is just a normal one with its life and its problems, and it could be the same if the family was a white one, showing that we are all the same and that we all have the same problems.
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I read this while informing myself more about this film and I think it really defines the film itself, the fact that it doesn’t talk about her blackness, not about black people problems but everybody’s ones.
The diaspora, or what is the same, the dispersion of a population group of people from their country of birth or origin —in this case, Black African Filmmakers dispersing beyond Africa—, appears in this film regarding that is a film made in the United States, with known American actors as Samuel L. Jackson.
In this film, Kasi Lemmons also thought about the sexism, mostly against women. She tries to beat it by showing a story built around the strength and independence of the female characters. The man is the one that is showed as the one that hurts the woman and doesn’t care about the family because, in the case of Eve’s father, he sleeps with all the woman that he wants, opposite to her mom, who is presented as the one who values the family ties. The only problem that I see is that the men are portrayed as characters that are prone to jealousy, sex, infidelity and violence. I think there could be more compensation between both sexes’
“Memory is a selection of images, …show more content…
I read this while informing myself more about this film and I think it really defines the film itself, the fact that it doesn’t talk about her blackness, not about black people problems but everybody’s ones.
The diaspora, or what is the same, the dispersion of a population group of people from their country of birth or origin —in this case, Black African Filmmakers dispersing beyond Africa—, appears in this film regarding that is a film made in the United States, with known American actors as Samuel L. Jackson.
In this film, Kasi Lemmons also thought about the sexism, mostly against women. She tries to beat it by showing a story built around the strength and independence of the female characters. The man is the one that is showed as the one that hurts the woman and doesn’t care about the family because, in the case of Eve’s father, he sleeps with all the woman that he wants, opposite to her mom, who is presented as the one who values the family ties. The only problem that I see is that the men are portrayed as characters that are prone to jealousy, sex, infidelity and violence. I think there could be more compensation between both sexes’