Movie title: “Ijogbon”
Directed by: kunle Afolayan.
I’m going to be very biased with this review because I have been looking forward to this movie, when I saw the trailer on IG i screamed “what’s this beauty” . I was first attracted to the colour grading of the movie and in my head I was like “I need to meet the colourist”
I need to also commend whoever was behind the camera because the shots compositions and movements helped in the story telling. It made it feel like I was seeing the entire movie in real time.
The movie has its setting in Oyo and I want to think it was shot around or very close to the new film village that Kunle Afolayan Is cooking.
Few minutes into the movie I had nostalgia and I remembered my short schooling in Iganmode secondary school in Ogun state. I believe that people in their 30s and above who attended public schools Will be able to relate to the school scenes, the use of rims as bells and what it feels like to be schooling In remote areas while having to tame their big dreams.
When Oby, jamiu, Ranti and omo oba started tracking the tire tracks it gave this investigate type of feeling and when they found the diamonds it made it feel like they were on a treasure Hunt. The transition from following the car tracks to know where it came from to finding the diamonds is crazy.
The scenes were Jamiu and Ranti confronted their fathers stood out for me, I could tell that they have been bottling up for a very long time and they did let out their frustration. It would be nice if parents actually listen, like, listen to their children properly and train them to have a voice of their own and not impose things on them.
If we deep it most of us are like Jamiu and this “Japa syndrome” has been infused into our blood streams, we will go lengths to achieve our dreams of “japaing” at the detriment of others because that’s the only thing we can think of because of the present situation of the country.
Credit: Oluwatoyin T’s
