deadly nightshade

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[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo True. It didn’t tell us in the beginning that the children knew about his death but in the end we knew they did because of the clues, because their “dead alive” father was dead, and because it was their story.

It’s their father’s shadow not my children’s shadow

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

Definitely isn’t Fola’s Final moments since Fola is already dead. We don’t experience it from only Remi’s point of view but from all three of them. The film feels like a re-telling of memories and stories which the boys engage in outside to spend more time with their father.

[Elizabeth Gaskell stan account @Ms_Ojo]

Unfortunately, none of this is alluded to in the film. You can infer, but only from what the film gives you. The entire plot is Fola’s final moments with his children while gradually revealing his true state to the audience, that limbo between life & death, all through Remi’s POV

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo Didn’t the visuals show the burial cloth? The deserted house? the mother’s absence? the boys face when their father asked where their mother was?

Remi didn’t want to acknowledge where she was because it would break the illusion that their father was standing in front of them

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo remi* and towards the end at the beach. Remi tells his father “ i told him you’ll come but he didn’t believe me”

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo lol. i didn’t say it’s based on hearsay. I said Akudaya as a yoruba myth heavily relies on heresay. the film does though. it tells us from the beginning that the children are highly imaginative. the first time they enter the house, akin says “ i told you he’s there”

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

A film should be judged by its ambitions and not what you want it to be🥲

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo Yes and Akudaaya relies on heresays which is my point about the boys sharing this conjured world up for their father to live in with them for one last time which caused him to be immortal for their sake.

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo He said this to them too about their late uncle remi who moved on through fola’s remembrance of him by naming his son remi.

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo Its title is my father’s shadow. It’s about the boys accepting their father’s strengths and weaknesses, observing manhood, their country and their self. yes, in return fola does move on through their acceptance.

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@Ms_Ojo So the film isn’t about two brothers observing their feelings of loss and grief?

[Billy Dinh @billydeee_]

The last light

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

@erigganewmoney Zero kind of swallowed everyone

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

A dream is only one person’s POV.

This feels more like a collection of stories and memories and it also looks like they’re actively in it too. It’s dream like quality is because it’s a conjured reality and the boys made it using their shared memories of their father.

[The Creative ® @thecreativexx]

In dreams, you can build ANYONE's world. Even to the ones you're not present in. It's literally a dream. It mixes memories with fiction.

The mother kept appearing at random times. If it wasn't a dream, how can she do that when she's very much alive.

The symbolism of that was to snap Remi back to reality.
In the beginning, Remi literally said it "father I see you in my dreams"

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

but i didn’t really like that scene because it disrupted me. I enjoyed following the children’s observations of the world. The scenes with the father away from the boys felt like reminders to the audience that it was an illusion.

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

They did it by “time travelling” lol

In a way to reconcile with the heavy weight of losing their father, the boys observe their feelings of loss, brotherhood and their country through memories & stories they’ve heard of their father.

[Elizabeth Gaskell stan account @Ms_Ojo]

So Remi built his father's world within his dream, does it explain the father's world?

So, was it his dream or was the movie trying to explore the concept of Àkúdáàyà?

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

Their memories served as a tool to help create a reality where their father was alive. Children have a very lively imagination and they use it to navigate the world and their feelings. The Akudaya interpretation is surely interesting, especially the scene at the amusement park—

[deadly nightshade @imanithunkedit]

Iron deficiency anemia

[Sheni Coker @sheni_coker]

The number of Nigerian women who still have front hair no reach 50. What’s causing the receding hairline