ARE WE THERE YET?

Are we there yet is the question I seem to ask myself whenever I watch any movie adverts on TV which contains a lot of nudity without rating and also has a poor story line. Where is our sense of African culture if we decide to copy blindly some other peoples culture by exposing "private" parts.

It is indeed saddening when movies with wack story line want to use sex scenes to sell out their movies. Movies like Shakira, Kiss Me If You Can, mention them are gradually becoming associated with some particular producers who want to use sex scenes rather than hardwork to get rich.

I will be ungrateful to myself if I do not make mention of such wonderful producers like Shirley Frimpong Manso whom although have some sex scenes in their award winning movies, are able to balance this with qualities of a good movie. Ghana is very proud of them and we support them as they look forward to a Grammies.

More than once I will be watching TV with my siblings and these adverts will pop up then I have to switch channels in other that I protect them from this immorality virus. What will be of me if I do not have a remote control and want to switch channels on a TV at a far corner of the room.

If our Ghanaian movie directors and producers want to make movies of such kind, they should please rate these movies and then they should find a way of advertising them without using the sex scenes to sell these movies. Otherwise they should tell us these movies are porn so that when we are buying them we know where to hide them after purchase.

If the producers want to outsmart Ghanaians thinking we like or should I say love these scenes and sell to us these sometimes cantatalike stories then I will advice that the Ghana Review Board should be up and doing. Some actresses and actors have out openly to declare that there is nothing wrong with such movies and they will at any time accept roles of this kind. To them I will say I in particular hate movies who have no interesting story lines but rather very immoral acts.

It is time we stood up as a country to uphold our culture. What is wrong in making movies on how to be patriotic as the Hollywood regularly does? What about movies on the life of the many legends we have in the country; Azumah nelson, Abedi Pele, Kofi Annan just to mention a few.Long Live Ghana.