TO love and to cherish

Title of movie:To love and to cherish

TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH 1&2
DIRECTOR: IKECHUKWU ONYEKA.
WRITER:KINGSLEY OKEREKE.
PRODUCER:IKECHUKWU ONYEKA.
RELEASE DATE: 2008.
GENRE:TRAGIC-COMEDY.
Name of rewiewer: Akinkahunsi Timilehin
PLOT:
A lady by name JANE {GENEVIEVE NNAJI} holds her late father’s business very dare to her heart ;she does not care about any other aspect of her life other than her father’s business.
Her mother Gladys (Florence Onuma) and her sister Nichole(Yvonne Nelson) is worried about her way of life; and they try to change her perception towards marriage.
In trying to achieve this, Jane’s mother arranges her late father’s best friends son for her Daniel(Chidi Mokeme). When Daniel heard about the arrangement, he totally disagreed with his Father ; saying his father is still living in the stone age. His father persuaded him and eventually, he agreed to marry her. Surprisingly, when Jane was told by her mummy about the arrangement she did not even argue she accepted; but she actually accepted on the basis of what her mother told her because her mother told her that if she gets married to Daniel that it will be a” boost” to her father’s business. The initial intention behind the marriage arrangement was because the companies of both families are coming together to be one.
After the wedding, Jane’s younger sister Nichole travels to Abuja ; in Abuja, she attended a night party and mistakenly slept with her sister’s husband and got pregnant for him. She claimed she did not know him. It was after she came back to Lagos that she found out that her sisters fiancé was the man she slept with.
After their wedding, Jane and her husband always had series of misunderstanding because they never understood each other before they got married and Jane did not love her husband; because she got married to him on business grounds. it was During the period of the misunderstanding that Jane and her mother got involved in a fatal motor accident ; that claimed the life of her mother ; Jane sustained injuries on her legs and this caused her to use walking sticks. Despite her bad attitude, her husband proved his love for her by taking very good care of her throughout her ordeal.
When Jane got to know that her sister was pregnant for her husband, she files for a divorce; but after one month she withdraws the divorce saying that she has grown to love Daniel.
The movie ends when the two sisters reconcile with each other and Jane accepts her fate and goes back to her husband’s house and they lived happily ever after.
THEMES:
Love: The theme of love was seen between Jane and Daniel.
Theme of hatred : The theme of hatred was seen between Jane and Nichole.
Sorrow: The theme of was sorrow was be seen ; when their mother died.
MAIN CASTS:
Genevieve Nnaji, Chidi Mokeme, Kofi Adjorlolo, Yvonne Nelson and Florence Onuma.
COUNTRY: Nigeria
LANGUAGE: English.
CAMERA SPEED: Medium camera speed was maintained throughout the movie
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
SHOTS: I saw more of long shots and extremely close up shots and a little of medium close up shots
CAMERA MOVEMENT: crane, zoom was used often in the movie. Horizontal(left to write).vertical movement), One of the significant instances is the zoom.
ANGLE: High angle was dominant in the film to show Jane’s superiority.
REFLECTIONS: A lady should never put her career life before her marital life; because a woman without a husband is not respected in Africa.
COSTUME: More of cooperate wares were used in the movie; just few casual wares were used.
MAKEUP: The make-up that was used was a light make-up
FINALE: As far as I’m concerned, the climax of the movie was when Jane proved her love for Daniel by reversing the divorce case. The movie ends with the two sisters reconciling and Jane going back to her husband’s house.