The movie Eve's Bayou, was a fairly entertaining movie. It did not exactly have me sitting on the edge of my seat in suspense, but it also didn't bore me to death and leave me trying to keep my eyes open through out the whole thing. So I guess it was a decent movie, but not one that I would pay to see.
"The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old," begins the shocking voiceover to Eve's Bayou. With a creepy calm, as the adult voice of Eve Batiste, sets a serious tone for the story. With the ending murder foretold from the opening moment, one expects the director to slowly ratchet up the tension until the deadly event. The only surprise in the film is its genre. After sketching the outline of a thriller, the director fills in the boxes with a feel-good sitcom. Typical jokes include the one about the kid who picks up a dead snake that isn't dead after all, they are mildly funny, but nothing that would cause you to go into any fit of serious laughter. Samuel L. Jackson plays a likable rogue of a father named Louis Batiste. With a big smile, he can always be counted on to be the healer in the family, that is, when he isn't on his nightly rounds. He is the local doctor in this all black community, and he provides his mostly married female patients with more than just medicine. At a party, 10-year-old Eve played with a beautiful smile but not much more, catches her daddy having sex in the barn with a married woman and it is not his wife. He tries to grin his way out of being caught by making up a story for Eve. Although preposterous, Eve believes it at first. As Louis's crazy sister, Mozelle Batiste gets the most outlandish part in the film. Mozelle is a grade B fortuneteller. When she predicts that one of the Batiste kids will die, their mother keeps them grounded. Only the joyous event of someone else's kid getting run over by a bus sets the Batiste children free. As they whoop and holler, they are reminded that someone has died.
