Firstly, this is one of the wackiest movie I have seen this year. Great cinematography, aesthetics was wow but very rubbish story line. I dont understand why we waste huge money on nonsense just to feel among. It seems to me that the money that went into the production of this movie was stolen because if it was worked for it will be put in good use. I kept waiting for the breakthrough in the movie, like when the movie is going to pick up but before it got there the movie ended. I should just drop my pen here but I don't want people to come for me asking what movie I have written.
The movie started with a pastor in church praying while his little boy sneaked out to play with his friends during the prayer session, the pastor followed him out and beat the devil out of him. It was shown to us that Samuel suffered abuse from him father and his mother tried to mediate between both party while urging Samuel to also obey his father. This is what most African mother do instead of focusing on their husbands that is abusing the kids, they beg the kids to clip their wings and they expect to see results.
Few years later, Samuel was seen chopping the life of his head on campus. He his now an artiste leading song bands and dealing in drugs like a prodigal child that he always wanted to be. He had a friend Teju and his girlfriend Rekya. Teju is a Church goer and a childhood friend and also helps with his class work while Rekya is not only his girlfriend, his backup singer and they deal in drugs together.
One day he met with Joy, Teju's girlfriend and he fell in love with her at first sight. Joy is also a church goer like Teju and this made Samuel attend church because of Joy. When Teju discover that Samuel might be having feelings for Joy, she got jealous and left them.
Rekya on the other hand got a big drug contract and dropped out of school, bought a house and left the country which made Samuel and Joy bonded well without anybody disturbing them. Joy church pastor however warned Joy of her association with Samuel which made their relationship shaky but they got back together after a while till graduation. Samuel couldn't graduate because he had some carryover and Joy graduated and stopped communication with Samuel. Samuel sent a lot of emails to joy before he approach their church pastor and he was told Joy had gotten married to someone else.
This got Samuel devastated, disappointed and depressed. I guess he loved her so much to have such effect on him. Teju came back into the picture to come clean him up and help him graduate and before we knew it, they got married and Samuel became a gospel singer for their church. I must add here that since Samuel left home for the Uni, he has never gone back home but he had the audacity to get married. Men doing big things.
A rumour started in the Church Samuel was ministering as a Gospel singer that he have sex with ladies in the church and he was told he would be investigated, this annoyed Samuel and he left home for Teju because She didn't believe the allegations were untrue. Samuel being a man took the best route to leave home for her. He came back and Rekya reached out to him. They reunited and Rekya sold him the idea of him owning his church so he can make more money. He bought it and lied to Teju that he was called by God to start his own church.
They became pastor and pastor Mrs in no time and had a lot of congregation. Its a youth church so it is expected. Church was booming, money was coming in and Rekya was supporting financially while having sex in return. One day an enveloped was delivered to Teju which contain an abortion slip or whatever, something implicating Samuel though and teju decided to keep it and live life like normal.
On one of Samuel break as a pastor, his younger brother came from the village to tell him his mother died and his father has been waiting for him to come back for years. he reprimanded Samuel and Samuel apologised but it was a fake apology. Joy also came back to the picture with her husband and the duo were surprised to how things have took turn in their lives.
Feelings came back and they hung out but Joy was committed to her husband even though her husband had killed her dreams in one way or the other. Samuel wanted to take advantage of that and asked for them to leave the country together since they were both unhappy in their marriage.
Samuel kept making papers while hoping that Joy agrees to travel out with him till one day Teju was looking for a document and stumbled on the Canadian papers, at the same time Samuel received a call that Rekya died. He was very sad and Teju confronted him with her discovery. He didnt deny it and he said he did that because he was tired of life and want to try out another country.
Teju was angry and she said she will deal with him. She went to the police with the envelope that was implicating Samuel and Police came for his arrest and the rest they say is history. We were not shown but they he indicated that he went to prison and he later came home to his father and father's church.
The End.
This is how disjointed the movie was, for a movie in this century with such title, they were just taking us round in circles. The title should have been prodigal child because the movie was telling us more about what preacher kids go through and if they had worked with such story line, it would have been better at least to project to viewers and parent what pastor's children go through. Its fine though as I would be rating the movie a 3/10 for efforts and the aesthetics and I am rating Samuel an 8/10 for his acting, He really blended well in the movie.
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