Silent Scandals
Genevieve Nnaji, Majid Michel, Ebele Okaro, Uche Jombo, Chelsea Eze, Ime Bishop Umoh,
Jessy overcame many obstacles to reach success as a single mother. Setting standards for financial breakthrough, investment know-how and bringing out of Ella, her only child was the ultimate. Her determination to make Ella follow her path left her no choice but to fly her abroad. Mission accomplished and love was knocking at both mother and daughter doosteps, only to leave you thinking, questioning, going back and forth. -O.N
It's still Genevieve's character's birthday. It's night. Genevieve had just insulted her entire staff for singing happy birthday to her in the office earlier that morning. Majid is driving her home at night. And he is just fed up with her insolence so he parks on the side of the road. Insults her and her entire being. Takes off his seat belt. Open the door to the driver's seat. Steps out. Shuts the door. And walks away majestically into the night whilst Genevieve is just left there. Sitting. Stunned. (I felt that the only thing missing in this scene was LMFAO's "Sexy and I know it" for when Majid was walking away)
Silent Scandals part 1 & 2.
TK Falope
Vivian Ejike
2009
-Story: [3 out of 5] Indeed! This is a lovely story… I mean I personally liked it from start to finish. I do not subscribe to the school of thought that it is a slow movie, neither do I subscribe to the school of thought that the ending ruined the movie. It all made sense (agreed! The first time I saw the movie and watched the ending, I really thought Majid had gone there to blow up the place so I was just sitting here like… WTF? This is some Pascal Amanfo ish. But after the 3rd and 4th time of seeing the movie, realization dawned on me and I realized it was a joke… ha! Not a very effective one… that Richie friend could not act but I’ll leave that for the Acting section). There were a couple loose ends for me that stood out in the movie. Some I could tie up with a little bit of thought and some that just made no sense. I’ll start with the ones that I couldn’t relate with. First of all, why didn’t Genny have any photos of her daughter up in her house like any normal mother would? I mean that way Majid would have known that Ella was indeed Jessie’s daughter. And how am I suppose to believe that after 6 months of living under the same roof the matter never arose? Or he never saw an album somewhere that pointed to the fact that she had a daughter or that her daughter was Ella. My second problem is in the fact that I’m supposed to believe that Genny sent Ella to live with her father in England however she never realized that Ella never really went to England? I mean… she didn’t call after her daughter traveled to see if she had landed? She didn’t request to speak to her on the phone from time to time to find out how she was doing? After 6 months??? Don’t B.S me (Bubbly Sprite). The last qualm that really isn’t a qualm because I can justify it was in how quickly Chelsea Eze’s character, Ella, became a top class 1-Million-Naira-per-shoot making model? But I guess since her folks were in money… anything is possible in Naija.
-Originality: [2 out of 5] I did get a Idris Elba and Gabrielle Union in “Daddy’s Little Girls” vibe from this movie with the whole fall in love with personal driver ish… however, that feeling did not last very long. All in all… very original just need to stop stealing scenes from other movies
-Predictability: [4 out of 5] I don’t think there is any maga on the face of the earth that would claim to have seen the end coming.
-Directing/Editing: [4 out of 5] Nicely done. I wasn’t exactly drooling over the cinematography and the likes but there was no fault with it. I do have to note that I loved the fact that the movie began as soon as you pressed ‘play’, unlike most others where one has to endure 5 minute long opening credits. Barely 1 minute into this movie, the drama began. I noticed how in this movie no single person had an African name. From Jessie to Naeto to Ella to Grandma to Richie… everybody… english english
-Acting quality: [4 out of 5] Genevieve sha… and this mindblowing business of hers. There’s only so much you can talk about something before you begin to sound redundant so I refuse to sit here and tell you that sugar is sweet (i.e. that Genevieve can act). We all know what it is… on to other things. Just like I won’t tell you what you know about Genevieve, I won’t tell you what you already know about Majid also. Great actors! No be today!!! I love Ebele Okaro… I always love the movies where she plays mother or grandma… something about that woman. Uche Jombo played her part perfectly well in my opinion but seeing as the Jombo haters are ever abundant it does not surprise me to see that they obviously have some concocted bagwash (my word for nonsense) to say about her acting. Besides Genny and Majid, I’d have to say that my next favorite character was the gateman played by Ime Bishop Umoh. Bishop is just too much… his hilarity did not begin today.
Bishop: “Oga Naeto! Oga!!!!! E get woman way stand outside say na your mama e be. Eem complexion na MTN”
And last but not least, Chelsea Eze. I definitely prefer Chels to the girl that Vivian used in “When the Heart Lies“. Chelsea seemed more natural to me whilst the other girl simply reeked of fake, fake and more fake. Chelsea’s acting was really close to amazing but she might have needed a little bit more. She was definitely good though. I’ve only seen Chelsea in two movies, this and “Timeless Passion” (Chelsea will also be in Blessing Effiom’s upcoming “Two Brides and a Baby“). Her performance in Timeless Passion was not as good as her performance in this one (then again she didn’t have much of a role in the former) so I guess acting is influenced by proper directing? Many many extras (well just two… Genny’s first fiance and Richie, Majid’s friend) couldn’t act. Special Appearance in this movie by fashion designer Zizi Cardow and Elite Model Winner, Annette Begg.
-Setting: [4 out of 5] Exquisite… I was really happy about the club scene. I’d say it was the second club scene in a Nigerian movie that I recall where it wasn’t all sweat, razzness and more razzness like the one in “Blood and Tears” (The first decent club scene I remember was “Kiss and Tell“)
-Costume/Make-Up: [4 out of 5] Lovely
-Props and Graphics: [4 out of 5] On Point
-Video Quality: [3 out of 5] Good
-Audio Quality [3 out of 5] Got progressively worse towards the end
-Soundtrack: [3 out of 5] Well done Austine
-Musical Score: [4 out of 5] Nicely done in fact I thought it was so genius that in the scene where Genevieve sits with Majid Michel to offer him the deal of his last name on her first name in exchange for 15 million Naira, the score changes to the theme of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
Taken
Love in Sight
Nice review. Nollywood reinvented, do you know where i can download the o.s.t. for this movie? I love all of them, especially the one about ‘mother’s love’ at the beginning of part 2. I’ve watched this movie since 2 years ago, but i still keep searching, hoping one day I will get the soundtrack…… 🙁
This movie is the bomb
This movie reminds me of Idris Elba and Gabriella Union in Daddy’s little Girls