‘Behind The Scene’ is a movie directed by Funke Akindele and Tunde Olaoye, starring top Nollywood actors such as Destiny Etiko, Funke Akindele, Ibrahim Chatta, Inidinma Okjie, Iyabo Ojo, Tobi Bakre, Uzor Arukwe, and Victoria Adeleye, among others.
Synopsis: Aderonke “Ronky-Fella” Faniran, a mother of two and successful real estate mogul, is loved for her generosity. But as everyone around her grows to expect her kindness, she gives until there’s nothing left, neglecting herself in the process.
I believe the movie was made for people with low IQ. I lost 25 per cent of my intelligence while watching the movie. I’m glad I was able to regain it as soon as I left the cinema. I will try as much as possible to mince words in this review, because I’m really pissed that Funke Akindele keeps churning out such movies and earning praise while oversimplifying society.
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Aderonke – ‘Behind The Scenes’
In this movie, Aderonke is a wealthy real estate mogul and the only successful child of three siblings whose parents are dead. She has been carrying the responsibility of her irresponsible elder sister and younger brother, who keep exploiting her. Unfortunately for me as a viewer, the directors of the movie decided to make Aderonke fake her death to discover that her siblings only cared about her money. She set up cameras all over her house, which her elder sister moved into after her supposed death. And from an undisclosed location, she viewed how her sister sold all her vehicles and maltreated her children. And because of this action of hers, she realised she was loving the wrong people.
This movie could only have been made for ignorant people. Are the directors telling me that a wealthy business mogul had to fake her death and set up cameras before she could determine that her irresponsible married siblings only cared about her money? Even a poor illiterate would be wise enough to see the obvious.
Death
When unbelievable things happen in life, we become amazed and say, ‘Such can only happen in movies’. However, Funke Akindele’s movies display things that can’t even happen in the movie world. The first time I saw a film about faking death was a Mexican soap opera titled Second Chance (El cuerpo del deseo). In the series, a wealthy old man died, but was restored to life in a younger body to see that the people he cared about never really liked him. Such can only happen in movies, and the series was carefully executed, such that millions of viewers worldwide played along. But Funke Akindele’s Behind The Scenes displayed what can’t even happen in movies.
Who has time to fake death, set up cameras and traumatise your children, all in the name of trying to find out if those close to you only care about your money? Why not tell them to back off from your money? If they still stick around because of you, then it means they also care about you.
Outrageous things seen in Behind The Scenes
This movie exaggerated certain things to make a point that Aderonke was generous. An example was her paying the five months’ salary owed to workers of his friend’s company. Who does that? Not even Santa Claus. It was also annoying to me that the director had to make Adewale and Segi, including their daughter, very rude to Aderonke’s domestic staff. The rudeness was just too over-the-top, even beyond what happens in movies, all to prove that they only cared about Aderonke’s money.
Again, I have to talk about the camera setup. Was it that Aderonke was so blind to her siblings’ exploitation that she had to set up cameras to see it? Was it going to be clearer on camera than she had been seeing for decades?
The White Man
The white man featured at Aderonke’s construction site looked lost. They looked like some homeless white men found roaming Lagos. It was obvious they were not real actors. I think by now, Nollywood ought to have acquired some real white actors for such roles. I wondered why the directors chose white guys. Maybe that was done to give the movie some “whatever prestige”. Blacks would have played that role better, since it was a “Wakapass” role.
At one point, this movie interrupted the script to advertise a new toothpaste brand. I just gave up at that point and concluded that I was watching a film made solely for commercial purposes. No regard for viewers. It’s all about putting together a shitty story, featuring influential faces, releasing the movie during December when people have disposable income, then bragging about how you shatter the Box Office. That is their modus operandi. Such is killing artistry, because if these people are the gatekeepers and role models, then everyone else will suspend quality art and start making trash just to cash out.
I’ll only recommend this movie for simpletons and those who want to be pressing their phones while watching it. It gets a 5/10.
