Tears For Lisa
Muna Obiekwe, Chika Ike, Johannes Maier, Abigail Nebechi, Isioma Nwokoro, Arab Gazi, Gloria Johnson, Terry Angiama
My mother’s first encounter with her boyfriend got her pregnant . With Several attempts to abort me but to no avail, She died right after she delivered me; my father had also traveled outside the country. I was born with deficiency that made me a nuisance to the doctor who abducted me. I was taken to a psychiatric home due to my inability to live among normal children when I turned eight. My father came back into my life when my condition has worsen, I now behave like an animal. He wished he could turn back time but I was too late to make it up to my mother; is it too late to make it up to me?
"That was in the states. This is Nigeria, and I make the decisions" - Muna Obiekwe
Tears for Lisa part 1 and part 2, then Sorrows of Lisa Part 1 and part 2.
Ifeanyi Ekwem
Mary Davies
Chinedu Collins Okoro
2012
Muna is in a different (actually meaingful) role for a change
Not well executed
-Story: [3 out of 5] The movie had a good story, was coming from a good place to teach an honest lesson about a recurring issue in our society, abortion…
-Originality: [4 out of 5] …an issue that not many Nigerian movies address. In fact, to a certain extent one can argue that Nollywood promotes the concept. I don’t remember many movies that deal with the same issue except maybe the Susan Patrick movie from a couple years back called “The Child”.
-Predictability: [0 out of 5] Goes exactly as expected (at least, exactly as I expected… don’t know what you’re expecting)
-Directing/Editing: [1 out of 5] First of all, the movie is in four parts which brings it down a couple notches. And then there are a couple scenes here and there which could definitely have been shortened. Asides from that and a few scenes where the photography made no sense, the general production was on point.
-Acting quality: [1 out of 5] To state it simply, many people in this movie could not act. Most were just floating with their roles. I commend Muna though, first for getting himself in a decent role finally and secondly for being the strongest act in the movie. Once in a while, he seemed to loose his strength but those ‘whiles’ weren’t very often. Muna did a good job.
Must commend Chika, yes maybe she could have done a more convincing job in some scenes, still she did better than I expected.
Johannes isn’t much of an actor. I am still eagerly awaiting the movie where his ‘acting’ skills surface but until then, I’m not impressed.
All the extras, for the most part, were horrendous actors; and like I said earlier, the others were just floating in their roles.
-Setting: [2 out of 5] Could have gotten better sets (especially office sets)
-Costume/Make-Up: [3 out of 5] Fair
-Props and Graphics: [1 out of 5] Somebody want to explain to me how a woman from 14 years ago (you do the math) had a Blackberry phone that was only released not more than 5 years ago?
-Video Quality: [3 out of 5] Good
-Audio Quality [3 out of 5] Not bad
-Soundtrack: [2 out of 5] Could have been better
-Musical Score: [3 out of 5] Ok
Happy Ending
COMING SOON: Locked Up
