Dark Waters

Dark Waters is a movie focused on a familiar issue. A graduate plagued by his families poverty and his inability to obtain a job. Then when he finally obtains a job he seems to let fear push him to the extreme. Although, the plot is pretty unoriginal there are a few twists and turns.

But beware this film’s ability to be an okay movie was destroyed by the editing and production. The picture and sound quality were very bad. The most bothersome was the photography. The first scene was off. The camera shook throughout the whole movie and their were so many awkward camera zooms. As someone was talking the camera would focus on the handbag or something that did not matter. The sound was off a lot. Some conversations were cut and music was delayed. The white noise, which is outside noise heard when recording something which should have been edited ,but was heard throughout the whole movie.  Most of the actors were amateur or had characters that they couldn’t handle.  For example, Yemi Blaq who is a good actor didn’t play up the bad boy part very well but Seun Akindele did give a strong performance.

There were also a lot of answers that came without questions. The actors would mention how they were married or how they lost the baby. But they never talked about them getting married. The last thing we heard about marriage the father asked the boy to bring his people and 3 scenes later without any further mention he is screaming “my wife” “My wife”. Scene transitions were not smooth at all. I couldn’t understand how it jumped from one topic to another at times. 1 scene was also pretty problematic.  It something I suggest most African film work on. The rush to profess love for someone.  Seun Akindele told his girlfriend, Beverly Naya he loved her…on the first date. How can you claim to love someone midway through the first date? This just makes me as a viewer feel as if the plot is highly unrealistic. Some scenes were not needed, but gladly there wasn’t a lot of those. This movie’s focus was about morals. Teaching the viewers a lesson not to only chase money and be greedy.

The editing and production made the film a burden to watch despite a solid storyline. So proceed with caution.