Friday, October 29, 2010

owuye ni






MOVIE TITLE-OWUYE NI
REVIEWERS NAME-OGUNDOLAPO OLAWUNMI MARY
DIRECTOR-MUYHIDEEN AYINDE
PRODUCER- MUYHIDEN AYINDE
FILM EDITING-TOKUNBO ADEOYE
RELEASE DATE-2009
TIMING-1HOUR 45 MINS
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER-MUSBAU PELEWURA
WRITER-YINKA AYELOKUN
LOCATION-LAGOS
LANGUAGE –YORUBA
PLOT (SUMMARY)-This movie is the linear story of sola (odunlade adekola) he loved his wife Tope (bimbo oshin) very much ,sola is a movie contractor. The movie begins with sola who entered the room and caught his wife on the same bed with his younger brother Tunde (odunlade adekola), then he woke up and discovered it was just a dream.
The next day Tunde called sola that he is through with his youth service and that he will love to stay with them for a while. When he came sola offered him a job as the general manager of his company .Tope later begs her husband to get him an apartment but it became obvious there is a secret between Tope and sola, they try to avoid each other and the husband is not suspicious of anything. The wife gets pregnant and the couple is planning for the baby,then the wife Tope had a dream and she saw sola chasing her with a cutlass to confess what she did to his brother,she waakes up and tells her husband the dream.
Later in the movie it is revealed that the secret between them is that Tunde caught her while doing some incantations with her husband’s name and she begs him not to reveal her secret but he threatened to reveal it.The next scene was where they showed Tunde revealing the secret to her husband (sola), and she (Tope) overhears and shot her husband’s younger brother (Tunde) on the spot. After this it was discovered that the whole telling and shooting happened in Tunde’s dream.After the dream he (Tunde) calls his brother (sola) to come home and when sola gets home, he finds a statue of the charm on the table with a letter underneath.When the wife returns home he questions her about it and she reveals everything that happened to him. She revealed that it was when things were not going well for him that she went to meet the herbalist for help an d the herbalist tells her that her husbands destiny is not the one that can get rich, that but she (tope) has a destiny of wealth, and that the only thing that can can help her husband is for her to transfer her destiny for him which she did and that that was how she came about the statue.
,She pleads for forgiveness from her husband and her husbands younger brother ( Tunde) begs for her. The husband ( Sola ) forgives her and I am sure they lived happily after.

THEME-LOVE AND BETRAYAL
MAIN CASTS-YOMI FASHLANSO, BIMBO OSHIN , ODUNLADE ADEKOLA.
COUNTRY- NIGERIA
LANGUGE-YORUBA
COSTUMES-THE PROPER COSTUMES WERE USED
CAMERA MOVEMENT –Medium shot is dominant in the movie but other shots were also used.
REFERENCE-The movie is very okay and I was shocked at the rate of the suspense in the movie, unlike many Nigerian films which are easy to predict this is very suspense filled.The song in the movie was also used to enhance the suspense in the movie. The costumes were used according to the scenes.
CAMERA ANGLE THE MEDIUM ANGLE WAS MOSTLY USED IN THE MOVIE
FLAWS-In the subtitle there were too many spelling errors and wrong use of english

5 comments:

  1. this a very good review but you can do better

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  2. nice review it is good enough
    bimpe dolapo

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  3. classical yoruba movie! by Michael Etu

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  4. good one
    babatunde ogundolapo

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  5. Nice recap
    never trust your brother and your wife when they get too close...... cos i have seen one before just exactly like this movie......
    "the devil only introduce sin but man spread it like disease"......
    belief me reader(s)

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