The film looks great clean and the shots cut well, the idea of pride and prejudice has been done many a times before - in this rendition as the story is coming from black Nollywood we meet the white girlfriend unlike the classic Hollywood Guess who is coming to dinner " with Sidney Portier where the love interest was black in a racist setting. The challenge there was for acceptance into the white normality.
The challenge here is acceptance into Nigerian normality.(see Trailer)
I wanted this to work for me it doesn't as I feel that there was no shock factor or breaking the cultural barrier in the story line. I found it to be unrealistic as nowadays a white spouse would be accepted by most Nigerian parents (for stay or green card etc or just to get on in life etc Oyinbo better than black mentality or London Oyinbo wife etc ) and also to annoy the Nigerian love rival.
From what I have seen its a great shame that this version didn't do the theme of pride and prejudice in another/new way e.g made the white girl a punk/heavy metal/Gothic chick or even non English speaking . The latter ( non English) being common situation now to many Nigerian families where Nigerian men have married Croatians/Germans/Russians etc there the conflict of the cultures /language barriers etc could have come across more.
You can see the shock horror in an African mothers eyes if the white girlfriend had been a Gothic/punk chick in all her costumes, as Gothic /punk and heavy metal are alien to the Nigerian/African culture - this type of cross cultural shock would have been great on screen and is yet untapped.
Story idea not enough for me - Great Cinematography and acting though.
The challenge here is acceptance into Nigerian normality.(see Trailer)
I wanted this to work for me it doesn't as I feel that there was no shock factor or breaking the cultural barrier in the story line. I found it to be unrealistic as nowadays a white spouse would be accepted by most Nigerian parents (for stay or green card etc or just to get on in life etc Oyinbo better than black mentality or London Oyinbo wife etc ) and also to annoy the Nigerian love rival.
From what I have seen its a great shame that this version didn't do the theme of pride and prejudice in another/new way e.g made the white girl a punk/heavy metal/Gothic chick or even non English speaking . The latter ( non English) being common situation now to many Nigerian families where Nigerian men have married Croatians/Germans/Russians etc there the conflict of the cultures /language barriers etc could have come across more.
You can see the shock horror in an African mothers eyes if the white girlfriend had been a Gothic/punk chick in all her costumes, as Gothic /punk and heavy metal are alien to the Nigerian/African culture - this type of cross cultural shock would have been great on screen and is yet untapped.
Story idea not enough for me - Great Cinematography and acting though.
