Mbong Amata brings forth her most convincing performance till date in Black November.
From Wyclef to Akon and Hakeem, there were moments where you’d hope that dedicated citizens who claim to have been ‘born and bred’ of the land would at least be able to properly pronounce the name of the protagonist. In ‘Black November’ even some of the star actors fell in and out of conviction more times than one. The cohesiveness of the story is however broken by the occasional actor here and there whose performance is not on par with that of the others. The parts of the story flow into a cohesive whole with no parts sticking out. The strong suit of the movie is its cohesiveness as previously mentioned. Ebiere seeks to change things with peaceful protests, however, Dede played by Hakeem is blood thirsty and these two philosophies inevitably collide at some point. The people naturally gather beside her and together they attempt to take forward the course. One would expect that a movie like this would be divided into two clearly distinguishable portions either Ebiere before the struggle and after, or Ebiere’s struggle and then her kidnap, but one major success of the writer was in creating a cohesive feel to the entire movie.Īfter the death of her family, Ebiere spear heads the revolution with her outspoken nature and her refusal to shy under pressure. The story revolves around a young Ebiere who does not seek the spotlight in this Niger Delta issue but is thrust into it when she refuses to be a pawn to the game of the elite after the death of her family members in a gas leak explosion.
The majority of the movie is set as a flashback as we explore the events in the life of our protagonist that brings her here. There is no room allowed for guesswork in this movie, the writer gets that right out of the way by starting with a shot of the protagonist, Mbong Amata, locked in a shabby police cell with talks of her impending execution. We hold these truths to be self evident that Black November strikes immediately as an emotionally compelling story that brings to the forefront a highly relevant political issue – the struggle in the Niger Delta.
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