Eve? - Lila & Eve (2015) Discussion

Yes and No. As Eve no but as a part of Lila... yes.

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Wow - can't believe I missed that! I was going to ask why she disappeared towards the end of the movie when they light the fuse at Lila's home to blow up the drug dealers inside. Eve says you "Can't stop it now" and Lila says "But I can stop you." Then the explosion and Lila gets knocked backwards but you no longer see Eve; including the rest of the movie. And to answer another post, they did not always have the same coat. I'm looking at the house explosion scene and Eve has a coat with fur around the the top; Lila does not. This movie might have been better had that been made more clear.

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[–] zoomp81 8 years ago

Did you watch the entire film? There was a scene where Lila (and the audience) realizes that Eve is not real. She even says it! I think they made it perfectly clear.

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[–] HarlemEagle42 (16150) 2 years ago

Thanks for clearing this up. I completely missed that.

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[–] uzibah 8 years ago

She was an alternate personality of lila, she only existed in her (lila's) world.

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[–] miss_brightside77 8 years ago

Omg...that's why she was always wearing the same coat. I knew something was off. I thought Eve just had her own hidden agenda that'd come out later. Dang it, I wanted her to be real.

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[–] pgooden 8 years ago

I caught on about the fact that she didn't exist when I realized that no one ever saw her with Lila

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[–] cobalt_s 8 years ago

Ah! I see. Disappointed. I wished the movie had explained that more. Plus, Viola's character wasn't streetwise enough to pull this off by herself.

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[–] dark_eyez 8 years ago

At the beginning of the movie, it showed Lila grieving in her bedroom, with a bunch of pill bottles and perhaps even thinking of killing herself since she had pills in her hand. She was crying and talking about feeling like she was losing her mind. I think she created Eve in her mind as a way of coping, dealing with her grief, and getting revenge against those responsible for her son's death. Eve was tough, calculating, focused, and unapologetic.

Did you notice that Eve never sat in the circle with the other women in the support group? She always sat in the back. The only person she ever talked to was Lila. When Lila went out to lunch with Ben and a few people in the support group, she mentioned Eve but no one at the table knew who she was talking about. But the clincher for me was when Lila was going to show Ben the selfie pics she took of her and Eve before they went to the club .... but only Lila was in the photos. That's when I knew for sure.

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[–] aniesaholmes 8 years ago

What confused me about Eve being imaginary was that the movie actually showed her talking to and shooting the first guy they killed. I guess that just in Lila's mind and she was the real shooter.

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[–] heyuactor 8 years ago

^^yeah, sort of too tricky (not fair) in terms of fooling the audience.

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[–] ntoxkn 8 years ago

I totally understand why they did that. Eve, the alter ego, had to be the one to kill first. From then on, it was almost like Lila had permission to do the killing. The first shot her alter ego did set Lila free.

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