Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Review of FIFTY by Mo Abdu

Fifty could be said to be a 21st century version of Glamour Girls, the 1994 Ken Nnebue production;
the main difference between the two being that whereas the ladies in Glamour Girls depended on men to live the good life, the women of Fifty made their own money either through hard work or inheritance.  Additionally, some of the characters are similar. In Glamour Girls, the character played by Gloria Young; who likes very young men and even married one that became her ‘servant’, has the same behavioural pattern with Liz in Fifty.

Liz Benson’s character in Glamour Girls was defrauded of a large sum of money belonging to her husband (played by Sola Fosudo) by a creepy man (played by Raymond Johnson). In Fifty, this role of a gullible person is played by Kachi Nnochiri. Kate (Nse Ikpe-Etim) reminds one of the late Jennifer Okere’s character is Glamour Girls.  In both films, their characters were the most vulnerable of the ladies.

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