Impossible Relationships

There is always a certain degree of excitement for me before I hit play on an English nollywood movie with a big Yoruba movie star in it. This is mostly because I don’t watch too many Yoruba movies so I get excited at the opportunity to see what these other actors have to offer. Sometimes it motivates me to want to watch more Yoruba movies (as in the case of Odunlade Adekola), but other times it validates my original decision.

Impossible Relationships is the story of a struggling widow and mother of two, played by Mercy Aigbe, who one day meets a rich man, played by Yemi Blaq, while selling her bole at her stall. He has car troubles and coincidentally she and her late husband used to run a mechanic stall together before he passed. She helps him fix his car and he gives her a job as a cleaner (this is the stuff dreams are made of lol) and of course we all know how this ends.

The question from the start really (especially with run of the mill romance storylines like this one) is not how it ends because EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY KNOWS HOW THIS STORY ENDS. The question is really about the quality of the content that makes up the middle part and the in between. The distinguishing factor between love stories that are great and those that fall flat are the characters and how well they are portrayed, their story and how endearing it is as well as taking the viewers along on the journey.

By the time, Impossible Relationships, come to an end and we get that our supposed ‘and they lived happily ever after scene’ I found myself asking ‘how’? You never see them fall in love or deal with any real personality issues that will obviously come up in their relationship. I read a lot of comments under the movie asking for the second part and for once I do not blame them because the end was too abrupt.

If the movie had continued on and gone forth to show their love story it really would have been great. This is because the storyline that makes up the part that we did see was very well constructed and keeps the audience going beat by beat until the end when things kind of “just happen” because they are running out of time.

As far as performances go, every actor held their own but the most memorable character would have to have been the actress that plays Mama Charlie. The director also gets a special spotlight for his attention to detail as well as the cinematography.