TADNEWS

  The movie, "Gangs Of Lagos" could have portrayed the Isale Eko in a bad light and maybe it trampled upon the highly revered and unique Eko culture of Eyo but obviously, the movie achieved some of the primary objectives of a work of art, which is 'exposing the ills of the society and visualizing the present reality. In recent times, in Nigeria, traditional masquerades have initiated and involve in riots, stealing from people and a masquerade have opened fire on church members, during a church program; this played out in a scene in 'The Gangs Of Lagos' and as expected, it seems not to go down well with the indigenes of Lagos and what the producers of the movie ought to have done to avoid the sober reaction is to have notified the viewers from the beginning that "NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED DURING THE SHOOT OF THIS FILM. ALL THE CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS IN THIS FILM ARE IMAGINARY, RESEMBLANCE TO ANY PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL", as it was in YA...