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Eve's Bayou Review

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    EVE'S BAYOU I think this is the first time I watched this film in its entirety because there was only one scene in this movie that I remembered that I'll get to later. Majority of my film history is from the 90s as you can see on my page and this is definitely one of the most uniquely feeling from this decade. It's past midnight on May 27 as I write this and I'm struggling to put this into words for this review. The vibe of Eve's Bayou is wholesome, sad, unsettling, and something else I can't quite put into words. This is a very human story about a young girl who struggles with the affection she has for her father and her sister. This is told through the eyes of titular character Eve and one night at a dinner party she falls asleep and witnesses her father having sex with another woman. This is the whole catalyst for the story and the dynamic of this family. The relationship between Eve and her father Louis is the catalyst for the story.   Eve...

Atlanta Commentates on Black Parents and White Adopters

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 **SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF ATLANTA SEASON 3!** So Donald Glover's Atlanta is back and the first two episodes released a little while ago and now I have the time to talk about it. I was up in the middle of the night that week when I remembered that the third season of Atlanta started already. I went to Hulu and started the first episode. In the opening sequence we see two men fishing in a lake at night. One is black, the other is white. They laugh and talk and then the black fisherman mentions how people end up missing  at this lake. The white fisherman mentions how this lake used to be a town occupied by black people and it was flooded by the mayor to create this lake. The scene becomes massively eerie as the area becomes darker when the fisherman looks away. His voice trails off and the audio becomes muffled and when he finally turns around he is missing eyes and the black fisherman is drug underwater by black hands. I was terribly uncomfortable when I first...