Blacksmith: Alagbede
Blacksmith: Alagbede
Blacksmith: Alagbede: Alagbede (Blacksmith) begins with a bash where Adio and his pals are all on the dance floor. What’s more kilowing is that his girlfriend, Omolewa, is introduced to all of them shortly after. However, the problems begin when Umolewa is approached by a rich man and when Adio and his friends realise that they have been ostracised because of their meager backgrounds. Adio becomes more of a nuisance and when the fight starts, everyone is scattered in different directions.
Such experience is also traumatic to Wole Adio’s friend who is irritated by the encounter and keeps on mouthing their poverty and discrimination. On the contrary side, Adio is satisfied with himself and with life in general and does not take his friend’s complaints seriously but eventually finds out in case of an example of Umolewa that they were -in point of fact- right when her mother prohibited her form seeing Adio and compelled her to marry the rich old bastard.
Looking for money, Adio goes to an herbalist who claims he will have to sacrifice somebody to be so. He does not wish to do such a thing and goes to yet another herbalist who only tells him there are other means without the need for the life of a human being. The herbalist gives him certain commands which he has to observe every single day otherwise something bad shall befall him. Among other things, Adio is told not to breathe in the presence of women during a particular time and not to bathe outside.
In fact, Adio does become wealthy after performing those tasks just as the herbalist had indicated but unfortunately, it comes with advert due to its nature; Omolewa queries where the money was generated from and he lies telling that Wole has recently acquired a lot from his grandfather and later gave some of it to him.
He starts behaving wildly as a result of what the second herbalist informed him which causes more suspicion; as people hearing each other’s stories, it was believed he carried out money rituals. This pollution puts everything that is of great value in the life of Adio in danger: the relationship with Wole; the love for blacksmithing and respect within them among others but most of all puts on jeopardy Omolewa who was everything in why he did all of this.
As much as Blacksmith (Alagbede) is a period drama, it does a very good job. Much within the first thirty minutes of this romantic comedy, you can appreciate the swells that come with each of the scenes. The setting was brilliant; location manager and production designer did well in bringing us back to the 90s with cars, houses, and technological devices like a black and white television that were in existence.
Contrary to the usual vicious attacks seasoned upon period attires by several Nollywood period dramas, the same can not be said for Nollywood Blacksmith. The costume designer clearly must have conducted sufficient research, for the costumes were suit’s for the characters while staying true to the era.
Writing stories is always the most important part of every work and creators of Blacksmith (Alagbede) knew this very well, and that is why they drafted an interesting script. The way events played out in the film moved people, the audience follows Adio; who was poor but was a happy man. Later on, Adio changes to a rich man but one who in spite of his riches feels the pressure of life. The changes in his character and perspective especially towards those around him who for some reason surrounds him begin to change throughout the movie, and there were no filler scenes – all scene were moving on with the story.
Blacksmith (Alagbede) has good dialogues without too much facial dialogue, and wits in a reasonable number of grammars.
In conclusion, the character of the Blacksmith (Alagbede) displays commendable casting. All the cast including the smallest supporting roles were absolutely fantastic. Femi Adebayo as Adio was pleasant to the eyes and gentle in nature, Kehinde Bankole shined forth once more as a hard hitter in Nollywood as Omolewa, Jaiye Kuti won our hearts by being the ever witty Iya Aja, whereas Wole left us wanting to hate Gabriel Afolayan.
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