After watching this TV series, one of the questions it left me with us what I'd do if I suddenly become wealthy without struggling and still can't fathom where the money came from. In such situations would I just happily start spending the money or would I instead ask questions regarding where the money comes from and just close my eyes to the consequences of what might come after. This and many more are the questions I kept trying to get answers to after watching Ololade, a Nigerian TV series that cut across crime, comedy and unrealistic religious beliefs.
The series shards the life story of two friends, Shina acted by Frank Donga and Lateef acted by Femi Adebayo. Both men took an instance turn around into wealth after years of struggling, although their wealth came at almost the same time, it was through different means that they got rich. However, as time goes on, we get to see that what one seem like a breakthrough , gradually went on to be what put their lives in dangers they never imagined. But amist all these tense situations, one thing I love about the movie is how it blend suspense, comedy and drama together to tell a story that's both though provoking and at the same time funny.
One of what I'm saying is how the movie captures how one can be in poverty, but still have desire to live a better life. And I guess that's probably why it's quite easy for shina to jump on an opportunity to become rich and live a wealthy lifestyle, even though he doesn't know the source of his own wealth, alter than the fact that he received a mysterious alert. This is one thing we all have to be wary of, we get so tired of our situation that when a way out presents itself to us, we literarily ignore the need to weign the ups and down before making a decision to jump ship for a better life. The movie went on to remind us that not all opportunities that comes out way are a blessing, some comes with a heavy price. No wonder it's commonly said that you'll know the true nature of a person when they've money, another thing I learn money reveal from the movie is human weakness, and go on to even cloud their sense of judgement.
The funny aspect I love about the movie, comes from Shina and his pastor, who's merely a fake man of God, using that lifestyle to get money from greedy people who wants to be rich without lifting a finger, and we saw how Shina fell prey and never got back what he gave the pastor, even though the gang of those who used his account to move funds wanted to take his life if he didn't pay back. Not forgetting the wife shina mother brought him from the village, who lied to be pregnant for him, but it turns out she has never make out with him and had only been impregnated by the boy he housed.
Aside that, I'm particularly concerned about how the parents of the young lady who was mistakenly killed in the beginning felt, there's a Yoruba proverb, that's it's better for ones child to be dead, than for the child to be missing and it's because you might raise your hope for years waiting for the child to be find and end up not seeing them, but you would have walied and ultimately get over the grieve if the child were dead. The girl parents went months unsure of their daughter's whereabouts and even got console by someone who's part of the reason why their child disappeared.
Overall though, one of the biggest lessons I took away from the series Ololade is that we should make sure not to let our desire to live a better life and ditch poverty make us lose our sense of judgement, just like Lateef because of the millions he'll be given, help cover up a murder, and Shina ignored reasonable thinking of finding out where how such a large amount enters his account before spending it and putting his entire family in danger. But don't, don't misunderstanding me, I'm not saying wanting a good life is bad, all in saying is that we must learn to ask questions when an opportunity that seems too good to be true comes our way.
Have you watched the TV series Ololade? If not, I'd suggest you do because you'll enjoy it, given the fact that's it's an entertaining series that teaches us some important messages in aspects such as wealth, choices and consequences. So just like I asked myself after watching the series, what would you do if you suddenly get wealthy and you can't pinpoint how that came by?
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Rating: 65/100
Originally posted through scrobble.life/tv.
