By Mava John Joshua
“Like a bolt from the blue” Morgan (Tommy Roland) brings in Kate (Ebube Nwagbo) as a wife home telling his mother: Racheal (Ifeoma Odukwe) and daughter Betty (Angel Unigwe) that he just got married to her in court and hence she has now become part of the family and the mother to his daughter, WHO DOES THAT? AND HOW WILL SUCH WOMAN BE ACCEPTED?
This is an absolute flagrant disregard for societal norms and belief of any sane society or world, at the end of the day he has to battle between love for his new wife and his spoilt brat of a daughter which sadly has another bad influence as a friend Sussan (Deborah Udom)
With certainty of an inevitable rejection off this action and on an obvious show of unacceptance of this abnormally, the new wife has a lot to prove in other to fit in and become part of the family, but her efforts are meet with resistance, continual conflict and badly plotted scheming that rather blew back and were effectively executed at the target making the movie really predictable coming from any kind of activity she exhibits whether good or bad
Typical of a Nigerian movie where the scenes have a pointer and one can easily predict the outcome of the movie or drama, the man suddenly receives a call that he will be travelling for a business trip to Maiduguri and leaving the running of the home to his wife who has not earned the approval and respect or does not command any regards amongst the family: daughter and grandmother and even the so called friend of the step daughter, we all know this will lead to an error and predictable mistake
Furthermore, the so called spoilt daughter is completely adorned like the step mother, both dress with almost same clothing and have similar make up and looks, a teenage daughter with nails same as step mum, wears eyes lashes like step mother, wears wig like mother, I believe in my opinion there will be contempt between them, after all what you have I have except now you want to have my father to my own detriment, she assumes the step mum has come to take father’s love away from her.
The movie was Directed and Produced by Akan Achibong and Okereke Kingsley respectively. The Cinematography was to me is near four stars despite some sound editing imperfection where there was an unnoticed voice over from the crew. On the final “rendering”, the editor did not attend to, the picture quality was good and the camera men did a splendid work which actually covered for the youtube movie, the sequences and arrangement of the shots of the scene is also commendable.
I really like the choice of Ebube Nwagbo for the role played, it was a square peg in a square hole, she was soft spoken, mature, motherly and added some level of maturity like a true mother to be despite the seeming aggression from the mother-in-law and step sister.
Finally, the issue begging for an answer is, if this movie Title was it curled from a social service company called EmergencyMum in the UK that is a safe, reliable and trustworthy companionship driving service for seniors and children, because in the movie we have a minor and her grandmother that will need attention to be driven to a safe place of rational and uncalled aggression, hatred, myopic thinking and attitude?
