MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE.
When I am asked what movie I can see time and time again, without getting tired, the one that readily comes to mind is the 1996 blockbuster, Set if Off. It is a movie i have seen countless times and what makes it more interesting is the fact that, it featured some of my favourite African American actresses, from Queen Latifah to Vivica fox, Jada Pinkett and Kimberly Elise .
The storyline is gripping, intriguing, highly emotional and overall very interesting. The theme of the movie is one that centers on different heists carried out by the four major characters and it is still so relevant till date . There have been so many remakes and Nigerian versions of Set It Off. I think Ayo Adesanya and Regina Askia's movie, Most Wanted, shot back then in the late 90s, was an adaptation of Set it off. These Nigerian actors also pulled it off the best way they could and the movie Most Wanted could arguably be said to be one which shot the aforementioned actresses into the limelight.
Directed by F. Gary Gray, the tear jerker of a movie, is about four black American women whose Characters depicts helpless young women who let their conditions and circumstances get the better of them, thereby turning into the world of crime and as a result of their desperation, they resort to robbing banks in order to live a fairly good life.
In the course of the movie, one of the ladies, Stoney ( played by Jada Pinkett) finds love, we get to see the disparity in her life and that of her Harvard Trained Banker Lover, Strode, acted by the very Handsome Blair Underwood. At the end of the day, the women meet their waterloo during a robbery gone wrong, an operation carried out at the Bank where Strode works. Three of them got shot and only Stoney survives, as we get to see her on a bus to Mexico with the cash stolen. Strode sees her, but decides to let her go.That was such an emotional moment and one can't help but shed a tear.
Altogether, the film was and is still an excellent work of art, story line so relatable, especially to the disadvantaged and hapless Ghetto folks I the projects, which is what the four young women clearly portrayed and represented.
The storyline is gripping, intriguing, highly emotional and overall very interesting. The theme of the movie is one that centers on different heists carried out by the four major characters and it is still so relevant till date . There have been so many remakes and Nigerian versions of Set It Off. I think Ayo Adesanya and Regina Askia's movie, Most Wanted, shot back then in the late 90s, was an adaptation of Set it off. These Nigerian actors also pulled it off the best way they could and the movie Most Wanted could arguably be said to be one which shot the aforementioned actresses into the limelight.
Directed by F. Gary Gray, the tear jerker of a movie, is about four black American women whose Characters depicts helpless young women who let their conditions and circumstances get the better of them, thereby turning into the world of crime and as a result of their desperation, they resort to robbing banks in order to live a fairly good life.
In the course of the movie, one of the ladies, Stoney ( played by Jada Pinkett) finds love, we get to see the disparity in her life and that of her Harvard Trained Banker Lover, Strode, acted by the very Handsome Blair Underwood. At the end of the day, the women meet their waterloo during a robbery gone wrong, an operation carried out at the Bank where Strode works. Three of them got shot and only Stoney survives, as we get to see her on a bus to Mexico with the cash stolen. Strode sees her, but decides to let her go.That was such an emotional moment and one can't help but shed a tear.
Altogether, the film was and is still an excellent work of art, story line so relatable, especially to the disadvantaged and hapless Ghetto folks I the projects, which is what the four young women clearly portrayed and represented.
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