A Multilayered Critique of the Lionheart Movie by Genevieve Nnaji
The Lionheart Movie is quite a monumental one in Nollywood generally in the sense that it not only broke new grounds in Women’s storytelling perspective but it also engaged intensely with themes like Power tussle, inter-ethnic relationships, Sexism and so on. Initially, the movie looked like the regular Igbo-based Nollywood movie with the same storyline but going further, it represented the narrative of a woman who is trying to navigate a system that is Patriarchal (ruled by men) and also Capitalist system in order to protect her family’s legacy. In this review, we will be analyzing the Lionheart movie through four different interpretive lenses. First, the Formal Media lens, will break down the six core technical and artistic elements of film i.e cinematography, mise en scene, sound design, editing, performance and narrative structure. Then we’ll further examine the movie through Stuart Hall’s Encoding and Decoding Lens, the Oppositional Gaze and the Marxist Lens exploring how ...