Barren Women

When will I stop randomly clicking on films on YouTube? Never. Because even though I sometimes have to go through tens of horrible films that do not show themselves until twenty minutes has passed, even though I sometimes spend hours and hours before finding the one good one that I can watch to the end, I occasionally stumble on a very good one.

This film took a very common storyline and gave it a sophisticated edge. I was so impressed by this storyline, the different leading and the relatable characters. Not once did I say, wait a minute this doesn’t make sense. It had a clear structure and a very clear narrative. In the character of the doctor, I found a compelling but extremely clever villain, that you were either marvelling at his cleverness or hating him. The desperate ‘barren’ women were easy to identify with or had really interesting backstories. Elements of the story came together so well however the end was kind of a let-down. The man deserved worse thing. It was suspenseful and very captivating. I actually ignored my friend at one point. And it was funny, really laugh out loud funny without too much attention drawn away from the storyline, most of it courtesy of Queen Nwokoye.

The actors had such great chemistry; I never even notice that kind of things. But let me get the bad out before I start praising anyone. The extras, especially those that were given the emotionally charged roles were so poor it was heart breaking to watch. The nurses gave an okay performance but compared to the rest of the cast they were letting the ball drop. Now to the extremely good, contrary to her acting in Message to Mary where she just made motions on a screen, Queen Nwokoye gave heart and soul to the role; I liked and enjoyed watching her on screen. Onyii Alex is slowly making her mark, particularly in showing her variety and she didn’t disappoint. Juliet Mgborukwu was phenomenal and this one scene of hers was great, high light of the whole film.Newcomer,at least to me, Onyeka Emechebe looks like a cross between Tonto Dike and Chika Ike and has the talent to back it up, so looking forward to seeing her more.If I continue to name all the great performances in this film, I won’t have space to write anything else but just take it that it was a magnificent cast.

On the other hand, for a film that called for so many pregnant bellies the props were really very bad. No one belly was the same and no one belly looked right. It was actually disconcerting and it pulled me out of the story a couple of times.

In conclusion, this is an interesting movie that gives an old story a new gloss and it works so well. Although I would have loved a deeper more intensive exploration on the pressures that women face regarding children and barrenness, I mean the film tried but calling your movie Evil Woman is pretty telling. And has anyone else discovered that little button on youtube that turns everything like seriously HD? Try it and be blown away