Review: Brutal Environmental Drama, BLOOD & OIL, Digs Deep For Reverence And Resolve, But To What End?
Long-awaited since its heyday as Oloibiri, director Curtis Graham’s latest feature outing, Blood & Oil, has since come out of obscurity and onto a North American VoD multi-platform release from Vision Films. I don’t know the history of the production off the top of my head, so I’m just gonna go into my analysis here, and I definitely note this as a worthwhile viewing. Samantha Iwowo’s screenplay and Graham’s own cinematography lend a gritty, often harrowing and raw look into Blood & Oil; Several parts consequential war drama and other parts political thriller, the film toggles back-and-forth, frequenting black-and-white flashback sequences to depict the decades-long fallout from multi-national companies capitalizing on the siphoning of oil. In the course of this narrative setting, we meet Timpriye (Olu Jacobs), the village elder living with his son, Boname (Ifeanyi Williams). These two show up in the first five minutes of Blood & Oil […]
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