The Wedding
Lilian Afeigbai, Blossom Chukwujekwu, Iyabo Ojo, Jide Kosoko, Desmond Elliot, Allwell Ademola, Charles Uti Nwachukwu, Ada Ameh, Jennifer Eliogu
A Yoruba doctor proposes to his Ibo lawyer girlfriend only to feel the full wrath of their respective mothers whose tribalistic prejudices push them into actively attempting to break up the union.
Desmond Elliot
Desmond Elliot
2016
Great cast
Storyline was lacking
If there’s one thing that this movie is good for, it is bringing up the discourse – yet again – of intertribal marriages. For most of us, it is a very real and timely conversation. The ignorance is that most people always think there’s something wrong with the other tribe but the ignorance is pervasive.
The Wedding tells the story of a Yoruba man, played by Blossom Chukwujekwu who is set to marry an igbo bride, played by Lilian Afeigbai, much to the chagrin of both their mothers. The couple, therefore, finds themselves in the unhappy position of trying to merge two cultures and two families.
The movie is set up as a comedy and it does have a few comedic moments but most of the quality of the movie comes from the mothers. The mothers are played by Ada Ameh and Jennifer Eliogu. Ada is a bounty of humor and manages to hold the screen and capture the audience in all her scenes and so does Jennifer. There’s this beautiful thing Eliogu is doing these days as she is transitioning more into the “elder” roles without missing a beat and still being fashionable, still being put together and still managing to be the center of attention even as a supporting actor. It’s that Joke Silva air about her that excites us to see everything she is in these days.
Blossom and Lilian as the main characters did well enough but the story did not have enough depth or fabric that anyone would remember it a month from now or a week from now. The ‘asides’ (when the other characters on the frame freeze and only the lead character is speaking to the camera) came off quite annoyingly to me. I don’t understand why the amount of movies using this method of storytelling keeps increasing but I recognize that filmmakers have artistic license… I guess (I just don’t understand why people are breaking the momentum that you have struggled to manage to almost build with the audience by talking to the camera as if it is an interview?)
In the end, the best the movie did was bring up the conversation (again) and give a few laughs. It mostly just comes off as a waste of a great cast.
Òlòtūré
Dear Mummy B
The problem is that there is too much vanity in the now Nollywood unlike before. God brought Nollywood far because they had a message for the world but now too much profanity and uncalled vanity has spoilt it and I will not be surprised if it goes down. I cannot even sit with my children in uk to watch a firm that is supposed to take our mind back home.
In this firm for example, why did it end with a gay talk? Are they encouraging gay engagement/marriage or what?