I get the message the movie gave. I respect it.
HOWEVER,
I don’t accept it and you will know why…

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Recap

Friends from School is a movie about Amara. This girl right here:

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She is a nobody in school. She is so invisible that people bump into her while walking as though she doesn’t exist.

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And they crown her the ugliest girl in school.

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So to change her status, she decides to make it her mission to be best friends with the most popular girls in her class – Oma, Bella, and Shade a.k.a the TDL girls.

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To succeed in her mission, she convinces her best friend, Fifi. This girl right here:

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To join her. Fifi agrees begrudgingly just because she cares about Amara and wants her to be happy. Little does Fifi know that this decision will drag her to the brink of death.

TDL girls

TDL girls comprise Bella, Oma and Shade, they are popular girls who have a reputation to uphold. Bella is secretly dating Fola.

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She says she likes Fola but he is not befitting of her status so she basically emotionally abuses him by refusing to claim him. Bella treats Fola like a leper in public but kisses him in private.

Fola having had enough of the emotional abuse breaks things off with Bella.

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But she begs him and they go out on a date, only for her to deny him – AGAIN when they are seen in public together by Oma.

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One day, Bella plays a prank on her classmates that the TDL girls are accepting new people into their group.

Amara is excited and sees it as an opportunity to become popular finally. Fifi goes along with it and they meet up with the TDL girls during break.

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After answering a bunch of questions, Bella tells them they need to do an initiation ceremony.

At the initiation ceremony, Amara and Fifi are asked to do several humiliating things which they both do. However, when Bella asks Amara to call her dad and tell him that she is two months pregnant – Amara refuses.

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Amara’s refusal to play such a prank on her father costs her. Fifi is accepted into the TDL while Amara is rejected.

Your boy was mine

Amara is hurt by it and has to go home alone. On her way home, she finds Fola by the bush: he was waiting for Bella but she didn’t show up. So, he walks Amara home.

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This turns out to be the start of a friendship between the two.

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Bella notices their friendship and begins to plot. She meets Amara in the library and tells her that there is still an opening for her to join the TDL girls. All she needs to do is to complete 4 tasks.

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The first task is to steal an asthmatic girl, Grace’s inhaler. Amara completes the task successfully and Grace almost dies because of it.

The second task was to vandalise their principal’s vehicle with the words “FAT BITCH COUGAR”. Amara completes it successfully.

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Bella with the TDL girls plus Fifi, says the tasks she’s been giving Amara have been rather easy. She wants to move on to something dangerous.

Fifi, fearing for what might happen to Amara, visits Amara to warn her. Amara doesn’t listen to her because if the TDL girls were so bad, why is she (Fifi) still with them?

Volts

Amara and Fola go on a bowling date and he musters up the courage to ask Amara to be his girlfriend. Before she could answer though, Bella interrupts them and claims that Amara is her friend. She then calls Fola her boyfriend.

Amara is upset and she warns Fola to stay away from her.

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The next day, Bella goes to some boy and bribes him with a kiss to mess with the wiring in the power room.

Then she asks Amara to turn off the school power as her third task. Amara leaves class and heads straight to the power room.

Fifi knowing exactly what would happen goes after Amara to stop her. Amara doesn’t listen and they both get electrocuted.

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Amara ends up with a sprained neck while Fifi goes into a coma.

A for Avenger

After the accident, Amara tries to get the school authorities and the police to expel the TDL girls but it doesn’t work. So she takes matters into her own hands.

First, she enlists the help of Grace to hack into Oma’s phone and leak her nude photos.
Oma gets expelled.

Then she takes multiple photos of Shade selling drugs to her classmates and sends them to the principal.
Shade gets expelled.

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Bella notices Amara smirking after Shade gets expelled and goes to threaten her.
It doesn’t phase Amara.

For her final move, Amara tempered with Bella’s reagent in chemistry class. Bella, unaware of what was in store for her, turned on the bunsen burner, and the chemical exploded in her face.

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Grace reports Amara and she is arrested by the police in the end.

My Thoughts

Revenge is necessary.
Revenge is karma.
You owe it to yourself to get justice.

I love that Amara got her justice. Since the school and the police refused to help her, Amara helped herself.

I get that this movie is trying to teach kids, “an eye for an eye makes the world go blind” but we live in a treacherous world and you have to have it in you to stand up for yourself.

Never allow people to get away with hurting you, especially when you can do something about it. Amara was able to do something about it and she did.

I was proud of her for that.

Should you watch this movie?

Yes.

I give this movie a 5 over 10. The acting wasn’t the best but the story was good. I enjoyed it and it was alright.

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Cast and Crew

Cast

Benedicta Akpan as Fifi
Ernestson Ozorjiri as Fola
Jeiel Damina as Bella
Symphony Biosah as Oma
Chisom Oguike as Amara
Isabella Emeka as Shade
Chioma Gabriel as Grace

Crew

Directed by Taiwo Shittu
Script written by Gabriel Odigiri

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