Desperate housewives

TITLE: Desperate Housewives 1 & 2
CAST: Emelda: Stella Damasus
Frank: Jim Iyke
K.K: Desmond Eliot
Lizzy: Tonto Dike
Amaka: Annie Macurley
Acheta: Johnson Anthony
U.K: Chinyere Wilfred
Mama: Ebee Okaro
James: Kalu Ikeagwu
Producer: Christophet Oziemene
Director: Emeka Johnathan
Charles Inojie
Camera Angle: Predominant angle is the mid camera angle
Camera Shots: Predominant shot is the medium shot.
Genre: Tragedy
LEAD: “I’m about to enter my menopause, when will God answer my prayers”
SUMMARY: As reflected in the lead above, the film is about a couple that has been childless for ten years and have been waiting on God until the wife (acted by Stella damasus) begins to take advise from a bad friend of her’s who doesn’t have a home and prostitutes for a living. One of the major highlights for me was the scene Stella discovered that her husband was infertile, her acting was so good, she conveyed the real emotion of a woman finding out such heartbreaking news. After this she decided to sleep with her husband’s driver, k.k (Desmond Eliot) who happened to be her sister’s boyfriend and got a set of twins whose presence turned her mother in-law totally in her favor . Unfortunately her sister, Amaka(played by Annie Macauley) found out and blew her cover to her husband. This threatened to destroy her marriage and so she planned on the advice of her friend U.K(Chinyere Wilfred) to eliminate K.K who by some wicked twist of faith is her friends son-in-law who cannot have a child considering his wife, Lizzy(Tonto Dike) lived a promiscuous life and destroyed her womb in the process of her countless abortions.
Eventually, the husband, James(Kalu Ikeagwu) becomes fertile and is able to impregnate his wife while Lizzy’s marriage is destroyed and she cannot get any man willing to marry a wombless woman all thanks to her mother who discouraged even the most loving man, Frank from wanting her daughter.
THEMES EXPLORED: Love , Desperation, Betrayal, Immorality, Patience.
RATING: A 3 star out of 5
SPOILERS: As good as the story line is I can’t help but comment on the flops in the movie, for i. For Desmond I was quite impressed because he acted his lover boy role well and it seemed natural except for the fact that he looks pathetic when he lies or attempts to lie. I must confess that I am always swept off my feet with kalu Ikeagwu’s diction, he didn’t disappoint in this one either. Jim iyke wasn’t playing his usual lover boy or big, rich kid role but a poor lowly kid begging to get a chance in a girls heart(the scene in which he bring Tonto flowers and gets beaten up with them is so good because his face looked very beggarly). The beauty of her performance was in the small subtilities like the raise of an eyebrow that can be so easily overlooked, however I felt she was overdoing the sexy girl thing to the extent that at some point it became downright annoying.
Regardless of all these flaws the movie is a good one and an original story that I would recommend the plots being well placed even though the ending was a bit rushed it was a good attempt at bringing something fresh into Nollywood.











BY : BENDEGA TERVER IBUKUNOLUWA
TITLE: A MOVIE REVIEW
MATRIC NO: 08BE07312
(IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE OMEGA SEMESTER REQUIREMENT FOR THE COURSE INTRO TO FILM CINEMA AND LITERATURE)
DEPARTMENT: MASS COMMUNICATION
LEVEL: 200
COLLEGE: DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES