Movie viewing has a quantum mechanics aspect to it (like anything else in life, I guess): The viewer determines the value by projecting his or her own perceptions onto it.

My usual pattern is to dislike a movie at first and then go back and fall in love with it, once I’ve gotten the negative aspects out of my system. Again, the perception I bring to it usually determines what I get out of it. I’ll have to watch Eve again and see if that happens.

I also love the feeling of thrill that accompanies the character of Eve. She’s the villain yet it takes time for us to realize that. In roughly the first one-third of the movie, I thought she was just another nice character out of a fairy tale. The dark twist, so subtle and subliminal, took me by surprise. And after that, it was both tense and exciting to watch her climb all the way up.

I didn’t watch it again, fearing that I would lose my appreciation because of the reasons you have stated above