LOVERS CREEK Ajayeoba Mayokun

WRITTEN BY: Cajetan Ugwuegbu
DIRECTED BY: Ikechukwu Onyeka
PRODUCED BY: Samuel Aghanti
Great favor productions, produced in the year 2009
MAIN CAST
JENNY AS RITA DOMINIC, UCHE AS DESMOND ELLIOT, GREG AS MIKE EZUORONYE, ESTHER AS NADIA BUARI, OLU JACOBS AS CHIEF, FUNKE AS EBUBE NWANGBO……………………
SUMMARY OF THE FILM
Jenny has just been jilted by mark her boyfriend, which lands her in the hospital, because of this incidence her father, banned her from going out and became over protective of her.
She later met uche who was a journalist in a filling station whom she became very close to, because of her father’s over protective nature uche was locked in a cell for 8 days. The part one ended where uche’s mum Mrs. Evelyn came to beg for her son’s release.


Chief (Jenny’s father) agreed to release uche on one condition he sign an undertaken that he will never come close to jenny again.
Jenny and Uche started seeing each other secretly after uche’s release in uche’s friend house Greg who also has a girlfriend Esther whom is also jenny’s friend. Uche suggested that they all go to an island where they can express their love very well without any opposition which he tagged the lover’s creek, which they all agreed to including jenny without her parent’s consent. The part2 ended where they embarked on the journey to the lover’s creek, they were joined by Greg’s friend Jeff.
Garden of Eden
The title of the movie was changed in the part 3. When they got to the island they decided to have a picnic, they were later joined by three people Olu, his girlfriend funke and funke’s friend Christy they mingled with the 5 people that got there earlier, they paired themselves into two and started chatting happily. Later on jenny decided to go and ease herself uche also followed her while jenny was easing herself uche heard a noise and decided to take a look, there he saw four people trying to extract oil illegally from a pipeline, he called on the others to come and look but they warned him that it is non of his business but Uche insisted that been a journalist it is his business and that such a news can win him the journalist of the year award, then uche and Jeff climbed a tree to get a closer look and also to snap the people, unfortunately Jeff fell down from the tree and the four bandit heard the noise of Jeff’s fall and they traced the noise with a telescope and found that some people were trying to take pictures of them, they decide to kill all of them no matter how many they are so that they would not get implicated. They set out on their killing mission and the first set of people they killed were Greg and his girlfriend Esther, the other still running for their dear life left Jeff whose leg was paining him due to his fall. The second set of people was Olu and when they wanted to kill Funke the camera wiped off the scene. They later killed funke’s friend Christy that was when Uche got angry and killed one of the bandit that killed Christy. It remained 3 lovers and 3 bandits in the island. The three continued the run for their lives, from behind one of the bandits killed Jeff and shot jenny on her arm, Uche took the gun of the first bandit he killed and killed the second one that was where he dropped his camera and carried jenny to a hiding place. The two remaining bandits seeing their colleagues dead concluded that the remaining two has absconded so they went back, remaining uche and jenny in the island where he proposed to her and promised to take her home the next day but before the next day jenny had died in his arms.
Uche got to the city later in the day and went straight to jenny’s parent’s house where he was arrested for the murder of jenny, he tried to explain what happened but without any evidence which was the camera he dropped in the forest no one believed him. It happened that Funke Olu’s girlfriend was not killed, she heard of Uche’s ordeal and decided to go as a witness to the police, and on getting there she narrated everything to the police and told them that one of the bandits was her uncle and he secretly spared her live, the police later arrested the two remaining bandits through the help of funke and found out that it was chief, jenny’s father that sent the bandits to go and extract oil and illegally and also ordered them to kill the people that where taking snapshots of them not knowing that his daughter was among them, he was arrested and that the end of the film.
LESSON OF THE FILM: If you live in a glass house don’t throw stones
GENRE: Romance Tragedy/ Adventure
CINEMATOGRAPHY

• C camera shots: Medium shots- medium shots were taken when the lovers were paired in twos in the island. It was also taken when the lovers were travelling to the island in the car.
• Long shorts- Long shots was taken when all the five friend were in putting some stuff they needed for the picnic inside the car they five of them were shown( full image) with the environment an d when Mrs. Evelyn came to beg for her son’s release, her full body was shown with the environs of jenny’s house.
• Extreme long shot was taken when an emphasis was made on the binoculars the thieves were using to trace the lover only the binocular was shown.
CAMERA PLACEMENT Subjective or point of view, we were made to see what the thieves were seeing through the binoculars, the camera was showing what the bandits were looking at, and also when funke got to know that Uche was imprisoned for the crime he didn’t commit she got to know through the news on TV.
Camera movement The camera zoomed in through the binoculars when the thieves were tracing the lovers.
My opinion on the movie
I think the movie is not the normal love story we see everyday and I like the transition of the movie from a love story to an action movie the script writer did a good job, but I doubt if the director has ever directed a movie before cause it is a poorly directed movie because the part 2 of the movie ended where they got to the creek and they shown the whole journey in the movie for like a whole 30minutes which was so annoying the part three started from the beginning of the journey again which took another 30 minutes of the movie, and during the journey they were not doing anything but just playing soundtracks which makes no sense, the movie was like a replica of a Shakespeare work a love turned tragedy(Romeo and Juliet) and I don’t know if they were trying to imitate the movie by quoting poems throughout the movie which was totally unnecessary and unrealistic even when Uche was thanking his friend for his support he was still quoting poems which is very unrealistic. The bandits were just shooting around even when there was no one in view and they were also making unnecessary noise and jumping around like hippos which made the whole action part look fake. Jenny in the film was shoot in the arm and she died, who die from a shoot on the arm? When Uche killed the first bandit he hit him on the head with a big stone 5 times and blood neither splashed on Uche’s shirt or on his head the blood was only shown on the floor which made it very fake, there was only one soundtrack for the movie and when I thought the movie was a love story they the soundtrack was telling another story which gave ma a possible hint of what might happen eventually, but overall the movie was not really predictable ,so I rate the movie a 40/100.