Owanbe Thieves is a movie of love, struggle, betrayal, and also consequences that follows every human's decision in life. Owanbe is a term used for parties observed here in Nigeria and as it has been generally fantasized, we are one of the few countries that grace parties, celebrate like the won't be another so I guess being present at such parties made them derive the name OWANBE (he/she is there).
This movie actually centered on a struggling couple who are from different tribes but loved and stood by one another. The wife's family was obviously not in support of the marriage and so, the couple were not financially or morally supported but rather placed on pressure and bullying which they always refused.
The movie showed how even close people would want to take advantage of you because you're in a position to get their help. The couple showed that there could always be trust, endurance, perseverance and true love no matter how hard life may be.
Owanbe Thieves originated from the couple deciding to rob the wife's family of almost all sprayed money that was acquired on the wedding day by the wife's mother and her immediate sister who got married to a politician. The operation was successful and that became their kickstart to a stress-free robbery with no ammunition.
The movie basically established the fact that the wealth you acquired with no genuine work or labour will not last long because you would always think less of how to make the one you have yield more but think more of spending it lavishly because more will always come from where the previous ones came from. Not until fire catches up with the a goat or Ram's body before the realization dawn that the game is up.
From my own perspective, I feel that as a couple, we are not always meant to think or reason same way and when one party is going south and threading the path of destruction, then the other can be the light to bring them back to the right path. They could have maintained a good life with their first operation from the wife's family but they choose to continue and extend to outsiders which officially turned them to "OWANBE THIEVES".
The last thoughtful part of the movie where I will be rounding up on the review of this movie, of which will come as a question is "why is it always that men do not think of cheating while struggling hard with life alongside the enduring wife but would end up becoming a cheat as soon as wealth arrives and he's living a big man's life?" Is it really in the male gender's vein, blood vessels or gene? I'm just curious because that has been the most experiences of women who suffer with their husbands till they get rich.
For me, I would have rated the movie a 99% but I do not like how it ended with the wife having the last robbery, alongside their kid and that was where she decided to turn the game off the husband. Unfortunately, I guess they shot the child in the process of dragging the gun.
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I rate it 90/100
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Rating: 80/100