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July 22, 2009 # 8:19 am # Film Reviews, Watch? Most Definitely! # 5 Comments
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Millenium Lady – 2009
Story – Gabriel Moses
Screenplay – Gabriel Moses
Director – Ugezu J Ugezu
Starring:
Patience Ozokwor – Madam Gold
Fabian Adibe – Anene
Charles Awurum – Chidi
Tonto Dikeh – Sandra
Mike Ezuruonye – Smart
Camilla Mberekpe – Mama Eko
Uche Odoputa – Benson
Browny Igboegwu – Hyacinth
Ifeanyi Azodo – Peter
McSmith Ochendo – Titus
Jude Oteka – Zaki
Chigozie Okolie – Detective
Chioma Iwueze – Mama C
Ugo Uwagbama – Police Officer
Themes Explored:
Greed
Materialism
Gender Roles
Family Pressure
My Rating 83%
Patience plays Madam Gold, also known around town as the MILLENIUM LADY. She is a married woman with 2 sons and a daughter who likes the finer things in life. She belittles her husband because he is not wealthy, despite the fact that he is the one that bought her the restaurant that she runs. Her goal in life appears to be to attain riches through her daughter Sandra. She does this by accepting money and gifts from Sandra’s prospective suitors knowing full well that she has no intention of marrying her to them. It is only when she messes about with the wrong man that she is forced into cleaning up her greedy act.
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Marriage is used as a bargaining tool
Benson comes to Madam Gold and expresses his desire to marry her daughter. As he is a business man and not working for an oil company (the kind of guy Madam Gold sees as perfect for Sandra) she knows that she will not approve of him marrying Sandra, but enjoys the gifts he brings nonetheless. She enjoys a new huge flat screen TV and satellite dish for the restaurant, a Sky dish, jewellery and money.
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Materialism
When Patience introduces Sandra to Benson his sole focus in trying to woo her is to boast about how much money and assets he has. He seems oblivious to the fact that this braggado is not impressing Sandra.Sandra’s mother sees her as an investment and tells her,
“God I thank you for giving me this fine girl… My investment.”
Uche Odoputa as Benson has some lame come on lines for the lovely Sandra. On one occasion when they are being introduced he tells her,
“Honestly the way you are looking now – You are looking like egg yolk.”
Wow… and he said it like it was supposed to be a compliment. Can you imagine? From this lame introduction Benson takes it upon himself to woo Sandra through bragging and boasting about his money and assets. They are clearly on different wavelengths with regards to what makes a good husband. Sandra cares about morality, interests, kindness, and in the meantime he is flashing the cash thinking that it it is turning her on, but on the contrary it is a real turn off for her.
Millenium lady on the other hand is wholly excited by the money and even tells Benson,
“My daughter will scatter your brain with hot romance.”
This gives the idea that a woman is good for sex and a man is good for money and when the two come together they can be exchanged.
Millenium Lady is not concerned with how he came about the money, only the fact that he has it.
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Family Pressure
Sandra’s brother Titus is just like his mother, and so begins the pressure to get Sandra to marry for the highest bidder rather than for love. He tells her,
“On this your shoulders lies the burdens of this family.”
In the end Sandra falls victim to the pressures of both her mother and brother over the wise words of her father and so in the end her mother and brothewr are the cause of her downfall and she learns that Smart is a criminal that has made his money illegally and so even though innocent, she is implicated by default in hsi wrongdoings.
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Good movie only that i felt unhappy that Ugezu J. Ugezu didnt play any part. He has suddenly become the best natural comedian, so original that i like watching his films.
This film was written by Ugezu J. Ugezu and not by Gabriel Moses. Is this a mistake on your part or did you watch a different CD from the one I watched?
Keep it up.
Beatrice… I just put down whatever it says in the credits of the movie or on the cover, although sometimes it differs between the two and part to part!
I did not like it much!! Quite the same story like the “authentic mama”!!!
It was not an original story line but I thought it well executed with great performances and highly entertaining!