You know I’m serious when I start writing a review five minutes after watching a movie. Very serious, if it appears under my name against my usual tradition of ghost writing. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a review of Ikuemonisan Bababo’s A Child of My Own!
A Child of My Own is a story of pain, faith and the mystical. A woman (Parka Ukatta) visits her son and his yet to conceive wife in Lagos. How will we know that she is a Nigerian mother in-law if she doesn’t show her daughter in-law shege? How does the story resolve itself? Mother in-law softens up and proffers a solution. Did I hear you say it’s a bait? Of course, it is! But not of her own making. It’s a bait that plunges her into something like an eternal pain.
If you look beyond the improvisations in props, location and editing, which I suspect is due to budget constraints, you ask questions of faith and patience, you’ll interrogate the line between the traditional and postmodern man, you may even call that line emasculation as portrayed by Obinna in the movie. And for that you have to give some credits to the production crew.
One last thing, if Parka Ukatta stays on the grind, we may get to see another Patience Uzokwor.
I rate this movie a huge 7/10. Watch the movie here https://youtu.be/0YA2pe3ZpB4 and let me know what you think.
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