A mother’s sacrifice.... Movie Review.
A Mother's Sacrifice is a Nigerian movie starring actor Zuby Michael as Tobechukwu, Chika Ike as Ngozi. It is a heart-touching story that talks about the maternal love and the great lengths a mother would go to guarantee the well-being of her children.
The movie opened in a supermarket with people in line including Ngozi standing in queue to pay for their items, then Ngozi told a lady to hurry up with her payment as there were other people waiting in line. This infuriated the lady and she began exchanging words with Ngozi.
The lady accused Ngozi's husband-Tobechukwu, of using his mother for rituals to get his unfathomable wealth, erupting in a fight. Ngozi went home heartbroken and confronted Tobechukwu about it.
Tobechukwu was a wealthy man, infact, he was wealthy to the point of stupor, he was married to Ngozi. He had a younger sister-Nnenna, who was also stupendously wealthy. But their mother roamed the city begging for alms even though her children were wealthy, this of course, did not sit well with Tobechukwu and Nnenna. Several times they tried to get their mother off the streets but she refused.
Soon enough, people started talking how come they are filthy rich but their mother lives in a rickety house begging for money on the streets? People began assuming they used their mother for rituals, which seemed like it from all angles, but there was a twist to the movie…..
When Tobechukwu and Nnenna were much younger, they lived in wretched poverty with their mother. They struggled to make ends meet, they took an uncompleted building as their home. This abject suffering continued for a time that seemed forever, their mother could no longer put up with this….she took a drastic and bold step.
Tobechukuwu’s mother was taken to a place of darkness where she sacrificed herself so that her children would become rich while she remained poor. As she made this sacrifice, she vowed to become a beggar for the rest of her life while her children remained rich, she took an oath never to enjoy the wealth of her children as long as her children remained rich. She opened up to her children about the revelation.
After this shocking revelation, Tobechukwu and Nnenna refused to continue enjoying a life of affluence while their mother suffered—so they sold off everything and took the money to the river where their mother had made this sacrifice to show that their mother had denounced the oath as they would prefer to stay poor.
Movie trailer— https://www.tiktok.com/@bestnaijamovie/video/7368382400574835974
But did this dark power really let them off the hook easily or did the dark power refuse the covenant to be broken?
Well, slide into a cozy couch and watch A Mother's Sacrifice to find out.
Review;
A great movie with important messages passed across to viewers, one should not be desperate to the point of making deadly covenants with darkness itself, nothing good comes out of such alliances.
The cinematography was rich aside from some obvious flaws at the end of the movie. I'll give it a rating of 4/5.
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