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10 Days In Sun City
Movie

10 Days In Sun City

2017 • Unknown

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

A potpourri of love, drama, passion and culture, "10 Days in Sun City" is a comedy-drama that sees Akpos on another ‘adventure’, this time, to South Africa, with his girlfriend Bianca.

Overall Series Review

The film is a Nollywood romantic action-comedy, the third installment in the Akpos franchise, which focuses on a chaotic adventure involving a Nigerian comedian and his beauty queen girlfriend in South Africa. The plot revolves around the main character Akpos attempting to protect his fiancée, Bianca, from a wealthy and powerful Nigerian businessman, Otunba Williams, who wants to take her as his own. The narrative is driven by traditional comedic tropes, cultural humor, and a clear moral conflict between true love and material corruption. It champions the ultimate victory of the faithful, committed couple over the villain's attempts at exploitation. The movie’s primary focus is providing broad entertainment and comedy through a love-conquers-all scenario, rather than exploring or advocating for progressive social or identity-based ideologies.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The film’s focus is a clash of personality and ambition between Nigerians in a new setting, not a lecture on systemic oppression or an attack on a specific racial group. The main antagonist, Otunba Williams, is a powerful Nigerian 'Godfather' figure, which grounds the conflict in a critique of class and corruption within the local elite, without reference to intersectional hierarchy or the vilification of 'whiteness.'

Oikophobia1/10

The movie is a Nigerian production featuring Nigerian characters who travel to South Africa, celebrating their own culture while showing a contrast in comedy and style. The critique is directed at internal Nigerian elite corruption and materialism, not a condemnation of Western civilization, one's home culture, or ancestors. The moral narrative supports 'true love conquers all,' reinforcing rather than deconstructing stable moral institutions.

Feminism3/10

The core plot is a traditional romantic pursuit where the female lead, a beauty queen, is threatened by a male villain. This structure places the female in a 'damsel in distress' role, but she demonstrates agency through her career ambition. The film contrasts Bianca's true love with a supporting female character who became wealthy through morally questionable means, creating a mixed, non-idealized view of female ambition that avoids the 'Girl Boss' trope but also features an objectifying conflict.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative centers entirely on the heterosexual relationship between Akpos and Bianca, with the central conflict revolving around the traditional, male-female romantic pairing. There is no presence of alternative sexualities, gender ideology, or narrative elements deconstructing the nuclear family structure.

Anti-Theism1/10

The conflict is purely secular, pitting a loving couple against a wealthy, lustful, and corrupt businessman. Traditional religion or a philosophical critique of faith is absent from the central themes and plot points. The film operates on a clear, transcendent morality of true love conquering evil.