Citation movie…A Review
So I set out to watch the movie Citation quite later than I expected following my excitement after watching the premier months ago. I wanted to see how Temi Otedola fairs at acting. First of all, she’s good, secondly dear @temiotedola we need to know your skin care routine. I probably can’t afford it today, but I will some day, so please be kind and share the tips. You have the most beautiful skin I have seen on an African woman…. Other people please argue with your keyboards😅.
Back to the movie. The movie Citation is a movie every girl alive today should watch. It’s lessons are many. 1. You can be beautiful and educated( read impressively informed), 2 as a girl, you can be privileged and still be ambitious 3. As a young woman, you have no business becoming close friends with your male supervisor unless you want to satisfy the temptations that come with it for the both of you. This goes for all senarios of life. At school, at the workplace, at church,…name it.
Much as Moremi ( main act in the movie) did well to report sexual assault and go a head to prove it, Moremi had no business, I repeat, NO BUSINESS teaching her supervisor how to drive a manual car. And in the movie, she leads him on (in my opinion) with follow up lessons, and agreeing to be with him in “unsafe” / private places. she obviously didn’t do it intentionally, but her actions did.
Honestly, it’s only natural that feelings arise when 2 people of the opposite ( sometimes even similar) sex start spending quality time together. You will think you have a boyfriend and your feelings are at Bay, but his won’t be. The consequences may be hard to explain to the onlookers ; same situation Moremi went through. Her own boyfriend laboured to answer NO as a witness even when he deeply cared for her.
Moremi’s dresscode to the class party at the professor’s house, Moremi being with the professor for hours at the coast, while the classmates wait on them. All that was/ can be misleading. Don’t bait yourself young girl. Just be a good student, work hard, work smart, you don’t have to be outstanding, excellence is just good enough.
It’s a beautiful, educative and informative movie, big kudos to the actors , directors, producers etcetera . But I thought I should bring another lesson to the table. Sex for Marks is something happening at almost every university in Africa. My country inclusive. The stories are many.
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