Sunday, May 27, 2018

Another Nollywood movie

It wasn't that good.

Appeared to be filmed in standard definition----at least, it was in the 4:5 aspect ratio. The picture quality was fine. A dialog movie. There were scenes with actors sitting outside in chairs talking which didn't work very well.

I wasn't able to follow the plot. A religious tale. There's a ghost in the house that it turns out is the cause of a series of misfortunes and medical problems. A well-dressed man in black appears, talks to the men for a couple of minutes then vanishes into thin air and the men aren't surprised or disturbed by this. One of them sits down in the spot on the sofa where the ghost had been. One man wants to marry a girl he just met but he wants permission from the woman he was already romantically involved with.

There were interior scenes in a couple of different houses, a primitive waiting room for a doctor's office and a simple set for a hospital room. There was an establishing shot of a church then a scene in an office inside. The minister has a sudden revelation that a ghost is causing all their problems.

The ghost storyline might have been pretty good but they only mention it in those two scenes.

There were no scenes filmed in public spaces where they'd need permission---no scenes of characters chatting as they walk through a grocery store or wait in line at the DMV. If you could film without paying the cast or crew, you could make this movie pretty much for free. There weren't really any props. You might have to rent a couple of Airbnb's.

It was only 47 minutes but appeared to be part of a two or three-part series.

There's no sex or violence.

They pad the running time by having very long credits, two and half minutes in this case, because they show one name on the screen at a time. It would be okay---like the opening credits of a Woody Allen movie---except the music was terrible.

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