UNREQUITED LOVE AND ITS PITFALLS

One thing we desire is to love but another is to be truly loved in return. While some find this on a platter of gold, many others have had a bitter taste of it. Different strokes for different folks, you want to say? But why? 

Then, SuperStory’s TOO BLIND TO SEE is a must watch. 

Genevieve’s Billion Naira inheritance makes her a target for the ruthless gold-diggers surrounding her. Good-looking, sugarcoated-tongued Francis comes into her life. 

He connives with his girlfriend – Tina (Genevieve’s best friend), pretending to be in love with Genevieve. Baba Segun (driver of many years and long time family friend) gets wind of this. But Francis threatens to kill him if he lets this secret out of the bag

With his unflinching loyalty to the family, keeping sealed lips wasn’t an option. After sleepless nights, much pondering and lack of peace within, Baba Segun summons courage while defying all odds, to tell Genevieve. However, his plan does not see the light of the day. Nothing gave Mama Segun, Segun and his sister, Kemi, the inkling that that morning was the last time they were going to see him. He dies in a car crash. Mama Segun rightly guesses “the brakes of the car he drove were tampered with”.

Even on their wedding day, Francis can’t keep his hands off Tina (who is also Genevieve’s Chief Bride’s Maid) as they steal kisses in secret. After the wedding, Francis talks Genevieve into asking Segun and his family to move out of the house. This is tough on Genevieve. But blinded by love, she refuses to see the warning signs and instantly, she finds herself on a path to disaster. She even updates her official documents making Francis her next of kin.

Meanwhile, Francis continues his escapades with Tina.

Poor Genny, not knowing what fate holds for her, goes on a boat ride with Francis. Unsuspecting of the doom about to befall her, he pushes her into the water. The exact area the resort centre had warned tourists to stay away from because of the dangerous animals in it. 

Unfortunately for Genevieve, a few metres from the spot she was, was a crocodile.

Segun loses the only woman he ever loved. The wounds in his heart seem eternal. He challenges Francis’ guts and morals for marrying his late wife’s best friend (Tina) barely a month after her death.  

One fateful day, the water brings Genevieve’s body to the shore, with scars from the bites, from her encounter with the crocodile all over her body. She gets the best treatment enough to see her nursed back to life, thanks to the resort owner, Murphy Adebayo. Genevieve’s murmurs about “being pushed into the water” make the resort owner more interested in her case. 

As she recuperates, she recalls the advice and warnings from Segun and his father as well as how she ignorantly ignored all of it.

 

Notwithstanding, she gets the best treatment and is also taken out of the country for plastic surgery. 

A new Genevieve emerges. 






The appearance of this beautiful mysterious stranger throws everybody into confusion. The chaos that will follow is definitely beyond the human eye.

What’s her plan now that she is back? What exactly does she want? And how far is she willing to go to get it?

The question is 'If you were Genevieve, what would you do'? 

Do you think that couldn't have ever happened to you and why?

Is letting go an option here?

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MOVIE REVIEW: THE FIGURINE

Kunle Afolayan’s The Figurine can best be described as a block buster because it will resonate in the minds of viewers and practitioners for a long time to come, thanks to its good production quality and screen play.

The movie ‘The Figurine’ deals with three friends – corps members who in the course of service to their nation were caught in the web of life mystery as they come in contact with the diety ‘Araromire’ the goddess of fortune and destruction. It is a fusion of traditional folklore with contemporary life.

Sola Fajure played by Kunle Afolayan, a young playful philanderer who turns up at the orientation camp in Araromire though late for the compulsory one year national youth service meets his friend Femi Kalejaiye (Ramsey Nouah) an asthmatic guy with thick glasses and his girlfriend, Mona (Omoni Oboli) who later becomes his wife there. 

These two friends’ lives were re-directed by a 7-year boom and a 7-year doom route map thanks to Araromire which they stumbled upon in an abandoned shrine in a forest during a camp activity. Sola decides to keep the statue against Femi’s advice that it could portend danger.

True to the words of the professor (Muraina Oyelami) revealed upon Mona’s inquiry about the figurine, they had their fair share of fortune, good luck and good health. These friends began to have unexpected occurrences of sheer luck after their youth service. Femi returns from aboard with the disappearance of his asthma attacks to find his father’s cancer ailment gone. Sola got a good job after NYSC and he and his wife are expecting their second baby.

Then began the years of doom, during which it was discovered that the same statue that made them boom for 7 years was responsible for their doom. Efforts to discard it including Mona’s repeated attempts to destroy it all proved abortive.

The Figurine is suspense-filled even till the end as the viewers are left to ponder whether the story was just a mere coincidence or superstition or the making of the figurine which the story picks its central theme from.

One of the highlights of the movie is its picture quality which was of course enabled by the hi-tech equipment used to shoot. Little wonder, the movie bagged the award for the best picture quality (AMAA 2010).

Set in Nigeria, a sub-saharan African country with diverse cultures and traditions rooted in the belief in the supremacy of the deities, one agrees that this might not have been a bad location for this thriller.

With its indirect and unpredicting screenplay, beautiful and logical shots to complement action and sounds, one must just give credit to the director- Kunle Afolyan. But that’s only to mention a few of the qualities of a good production work Kunle fed the viewers’ eyes with. The transition of the characters from youth corps members to high profile personality in the society as exemplified at the McCom Golf Club setting, the transition of the setting from the youth orientation camp to the metropolitan city of Lagos, and the beach road home of Sola Fajure all points out to a quality work.

Another great asset this block buster can boast of is her characters- an all-Nigerian cast. ‘Owambe’ Linda Chukwu (Funlola Aofiyebi- Raimi) is also one character to watch out for in ‘The Figurine’. She did justice to her interpretation of the role of a companion and a listening ear to Mona well not forgetting steady, consistent and all-charming character- Mona.

With all these outstanding production qualities, one would not be surprised ‘The Figurine’ was nominated in 10 categories in film making at the 2010 edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). The movie won awards in cinematography, best picture and also bagged the award for the best film from Africa. Now, if you feel Nigerian movies are sub-standard, then watch ‘The Figurine’ as it will definitely stun you and keep you glued to the screen till the end.

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