Now that we’re done romanticizing Bambam and Uzor Arukwe’s characters in the movie ‘Love In Every Word’, can we talk about the mess they both were?
I’m done pretending they were such a cute couple.
One practically converted her office space to her love nest, the other illiterate with a mole on his face clearly had no respect for his fiancee’s workplace.
They really tried Chioma’s boss, whom everyone thinks is the villain.
A woman who knew what was best for business, choosing to assign company roles according to individual ability.
I don’t see the bad in that.
All Chioma needed to do was prove that she was as good as her colleague Seun – the one who kept stealing her shine.
Yes, there are people who are deemed more useful for conceptualizing ideas, which is Chioma.
It might seem like a restriction, as they sometimes want to be the face of their ideas.
But maybe, just maybe, the Seun guy had proven to be better at executing creative ideas, including hers.
They say he was knacking their boss, but we no see am.
I take it that madam recognized their individual strengths and fitted them where they needed to be.
It happens everywhere.
Also, what we saw is the typical everyday boss keeping their workers on their toes.
Chioma was well-adjusted to her work life, until a rich man promised her his fortune.
The arrogant turd who danced into a workplace with a noisy ogene band with no regard for company culture. Worse still, boasting about his wealth.
Which boss will take that?
“Tell your admirers that this is a place of work, I don’t like this type of distractions,” says boss to Chioma.
Did she do that?
Instead she allowed the gift distractions, pretending not to like them, but taking delivery of them anyway.
She allowed her braggart of a boyfriend to disrespect the establishment, to where he felt he was at liberty to bang her on her office table.
Madam is bad, madam is wicked.
Chioma that enabled her man to go against professional etiquettes nko?
All the while her busybody friends and money-hungry mother kept convincing her to cash out with a 45-year-old bachelor,
After being pressured to accept a man whose oral english made her ears bleed, she kwere’d.
You know, ‘longer throat’ set in.
Suddenly, her office space became unfit for her new nwunye odogwu status.
Her boss was beneath her.
Her pay was peanuts.
The same peanuts that’s the reason she could afford the bone straight wigs she wore the whole time?
The same peanuts that gave her the means to sponsor her ex-boyfriend’s lavish lifestyle?
Eew… Let’s not get into her condescending resignation.
Is that the professional, feminine, and focused woman qualities you people are on about?
I give the movie 8/10.
But the two lead characters, if I’m to describe them, I’ll say ‘thirsty Lekki babe meets local champion’.
BTV reporting
