HEART OF A STRANGER

Director: Femi Brainard
Producer: Dee supreme productions
Release date: 2009
Genre: Tragedy.
Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes 24 seconds.
Reviewer: Sorunke Emmanuella ololade
PLOT:
The movie is a narrative it is the flash back of the narrator.
Rezi (Helen Udoma) is a school leaver and an only child. She ran into her best friend Bella (Moyo Lawal), whom she lost contact with, in the supermarket while in Lagos where she came to seek admission. Bella invited Rezi to stay with her in her sister joy’s (Monalisa Chinda Richards) house. Bella tells Joy, who in turn persuades her husband Larry (Femi Brainard) to let Rezi stay with them until she is through with her admission process. Rezi packed into the house as soon as Larry agreed to accommodate her. Rezi started a good rapport with Joy who ended up liking and trusting her. Betty, Joy’s friend warned her against harboring a stranger in her house. Rezi got used to the family and she was already seen as a family member. Rezi misbehaved when she started to make sexual advances to Larry who rebuked her. Rezi persisted when Larry saw her with her boy friend, Raymond in the house he got angry and walked him out for no reason.
Rezi used this opportunity to keep on disturbing Larry who later entertained her. Larry started having extramarital affair with rezi. Joy got pregnant and due to her heavy state, she encouraged Larry to take rezi out so that she would familiarize herself with Lagos. Bella caught them while they were making sexual advances to each other, she told her sister. Joy begged rezi to leave her family but she insisted that she loved Larry and was not ready to leave him. On hearing that she lost the pregnancy and she was rushed to the hospital where she was told she lost her womb.
On hearing this Larry sent rezi packing. Rezi found out that she was pregnant but she could not tell Larry, she ended up on the street because she could not go back to her parents with an unwanted pregnancy. Joy also moved out of her matrimonial home and she gave her life to Christ. Larry never remarried
Rezi became a street beggar and everthing became hard for her and she ended up giving birth to an imbecile due to the abortion she tried to commit.
Theme: the theme of the movie is the consequences of wrong relationships.
Main casts: Femi brainard, monalisa chinda Richards, Helen udoma.
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Cinematography
Shots:
At the beginning of the movie a long shot was used. Most of the scenes made use of medium shots. Medium shots were used for the narrator. There was an extreme close up of Joy’s hands when she lost her womb.
Angle:
High angle was used when Rezi was sent packing. Mid- angle was used when Rezi was seducing Larry. It seemed as though I was looking at it right in front of me.
Transitions:
More of the cut transitions were used especially when narrator is shown. Zoom in and out was also used for the flash back Joy had when she remembered what her friend said about Rezi.
Camera movements: dolly out was used to create a sense of abandonment when Rezi became helpless.

Camera speed: the normal motion was used and also some slow motions.
Costumes: A normal costume that is what anyone could wear any day.
Make up: everyone wore a natural look.
Reflections; this story emphasizes the bane of extramarital affairs and how it could damage our lives as little as it looks. Ending up with unwanted pregnancy was the result paid for dating the wrong persons.
Finale; at the end of the movie rezi paid for her dissatisfaction. She ended up on the street just because she allowed the devil to use her. Now she is saddled with the burden of taking care of her imbecile child.