ORI OLOWO LORI MI-Reviewed by OLOWU OYINKANSOLA

Movie title: Ori olowo lori mi
Director: Afeez Abiodun
Writer: Taiwo Akinwande
Producer: Taiwo Akinwande
Screen play: Taiwo Akinwande
Year of production: 2010
Genre: Melodrama
Name of reviewer: Olowu Oyinkansola
THE REVIEW (PLOT SUMMARY)
The film tells the story of how family made its way to success. The father of the house, Kolapo (Yinka Quadri) was a driver while the wife, Abike (Taiwo Akinwande) was a trader who sold roasted plantain and roasted yam. They were very poor and Kolapo was looking for ways to get rich and so he decides to go and seek the help of an herbalist who tells him the solution is through his wife. Suddenly, the wife becomes sick and because of lack of money, the wife dies. After this incidence, he becomes very wealthy and he settles down with another wife (Fathia Balogun). However, rumors are spreading about that he used his former wife (Abike) for money rituals. The mother of the deceased wife is also getting information from a relation who happens to be the friend of (Kolapo) who took him to the herbalist. This relation tells the mother of the deceased wife that he is a testifier to the fact that Kolapo used his wife for money ritual. The mother of the deceased wife decides to avenge her daughter’s death and so she goes to an herbalist who gives her an object to place under her pillow. When she does this, she sees a vision where her daughter tells her that her husband (Kolapo) did not kill her but because of the persuasion of the relative, she still insists that her daughter was killed by the husband and so she decides to arrest him. It is at the police station that he narrates how the wife died naturally and that he didi not get his money through fetish means.

Theme: Patience
Main casts: Taiwo Akinwande, Yinka Quadri, Iyabo Ojo, Muka ray.
Country: Nigeria
Language: Yoruba
Quotes: “Duro be, Gbe dani be, Je ko wa be” by the mother of Abike (Taiwo Akinwande)
Title sequence: The title comes after the production company and the names of the main cast have been shown.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Each scene ends with a sound track.
Shots: The film started with a long shot then there were more of medium shots, there were extreme close up shots, extreme long shots.
Angle: The angle used was mainly mid angle and just a few low angles.
Transition: The film begins with a fade in and ended in a fade out and each scene to another scene is a fade in.
Camera movement: There is mostly panning from left to right, tilt up and tilt down. There was also crane shot.
Camera speed: Every scene was in normal motion.
Costume: Oladipupo Olajide
Make up: Temitope Akinlade
Reflections: I think the movie was filled with suspense because there was speculation about who really killed the wife, all fingers were pointing at the husband but at the end, we discovered that the wife died a natural death. The setting was good, video quality and sound quality was also superb.