It's me again, I will be review Half of a yellow sun (HOAYS). Lets start with if you loved the book you would totally HATE this movie. I saw the two posters online the one on the right is the one we had in Nigeria which is supposed to appeal to the Nigerian market because it has Onyeka onwenu, Genevieve Nnaji and Oc Ukeje infront even though Oc was in only one scene in the whole movie. The other one is for the international market which of course had Chinwetel and Thandie.
I will say what I liked about this movie, the acting was impeccable from Chinwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika noni Rose, Genevieve Nnaji, Onyeka Onwenu and all the others. The scenery where really realistic I believed the era they where going for (kudos to the art team).
The part I really did not like is that it didn't paint a picture as well as Chimamanda Adichie, her book was about the war and how it affected different classes of people. It was very vivid and beautifully told. This movie was a soap opera about love, and very little about the war. Our Nigerian cast did quite well I was so impressed I just wish the got better screen time, the other international casts had an american-igbo accent which was really hilarious (LOL). My best character in this movie was Kainene (played by Anika Noni Rose) she was very upright, nose in the air and all I enjoyed her acting. I wish someone else will do a better adaptation of this book because I really enjoyed the book. I appreciate the hard work but I dont think justice was done to this piece of art.
Synposes:
The story for those unfamiliar with the book is about two sisters from a wealthy Nigerian family who at Nigeria’s independence set out on very different romantic paths, the cool, distant, sophisticated Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) begins a relationship with Richard (Joseph Mawle) an English writer whilst living the luxurious life of the Nigerian upper class while Olanna (Thandie Newton) settles down with a radical University lecturer Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in the sleepy, comfortable university town of Nsukka. Olanna and Odenigbo’s idyllic life is interrupted by Odenigbo’s mother (Onyeka Onwenu), who through machinations brings about a rupture that spreads across both sisters relationships, this domestic discord is matched by the even greater crisis rocking the country first with a coup against the corrupt National Government and then a counter coup and subsequent massacres of Eastern Nigerian’s (mainly Igbo’s) who were ‘blamed’ for the first coup. The massacres lead to the secession of the
Eastern part of Nigeria as an independent country the Republic of Biafra. Whilst this is happening a baby is born and Olanna and Odenigbo flee repeatedly from the advancing Federal troops, sinking deeper and deeper into penury, experiencing the loss and deprivations of war.
Remember this is just my opinion if you think I am talking nonsense, please go see the movie and drop me a comment...
Later people... Enjoy the trailer:
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