Life lessons from "Blood Sisters".

The Nigerian movie industry has been giving some fantastic movies in recent years, I am not a fan of the industry but I am always eager to see movies that are been hyped. Some have failed to reach the expectation while some did satisfy the viewers.

Curiosity made me watch "BLOOD SISTERS", I was impressed. They gave an international standard but they could have done better in the end, they didn't pass the message properly for an ordinary person to assimilate.

The movie is about two friends standing by each other all through life, one of the friends accidentally killed her friend's groom on the wedding day while trying to defend her friend while the husband-to-be was beating her up. The wedding didn't happen and they had to smuggle out the body to bury him because the guy was from an influential home and it would be difficult to charge a deceased person for abuse.

They ran and ran for their lives, they were hunted by different forces. Along the line, the groom's best man discovered that the guy was an abuser. He abused every woman he had an affair with and even made documented it in his art gallery.

Were they caught? I will let you see the rest of the movie yourself but I learned some lessons from the movies that I felt are worth sharing with everyone.

No reason justifies staying in an abusive relationship:

The bride-to-be could have left the relationship the moment he first abused her but she chose to stay hoping that he will change which didn't happen, she could have lost her life along the way.

Her friend wasn't in support but she couldn't make the decisions for her, that same friend ended up shooting the groom while helping her friend. I have said that staying in an abusive relationship will only end in trouble, it is either you endure the pain or fight back and become the culprit.

As parents, it is wrong to encourage your children to stay in a violent relationship because of the things you are benefiting from the spouse.

The lady told her mother on the wedding day that the husband beats her often but she said isn't it just a slap, it is normal. They didn't want to lose the benefit of her daughter tying the knot with someone from a wealthy home, she would have called off the wedding if she had the interest of her daughter in her heart.

There were several opportunities to quit the relationship, she wouldn't have had anything to do with murder if she had used the exits. She got lucky because escaping things like this is hard in reality, she might have been killed even before they knew that she was trying to defend herself.

Favoritism among children shouldn't be practiced.

I talked about this some time ago, favoritism among children is the easiest way to destroy a home. For no reason should either of the parents show extra love that can attract hate or jealousy for a particular child in the family?

The mother had the three kids and she placed one above all, it led to hate and they were after their lives. The three children were enemies and had reasons to hate each other, we have seen cases like this in reality and I hold parents responsible for this.

Greed for power kills.

The greed for power can consume an individual, people who are obsessed with power usually misuse it at the end of everything. They go as far as even killing people just for the sake of accumulating power which ends up destroying them, we can what's happening in Nigeria due to the coming election.

The greed for power usually doesn't end well because the people craving it don't have what it takes to contain it and it eventually destroys them but before they are destroyed, they must have caused lots of damage.

The messages passed in the movie are valuable and can be related to the things happening in the society today most especially the growing cases of abuse in relationships, I hope lots of people saw those lessons and not just the clothes, kisses, nude and the action in the movie.

All images are screenshots from the movie.