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Until when will we keep silent about gender sexual harassment? This film tackles this scandalous and little treated subject in a masterful way. Invites and encourages not to remain silent when you are sexually harassed, to raise your voice and not see it as something normal or something that happened because of carelessness or because someone caused it. It shows both the version of the victim and the perpetrator making it interesting. It seeks to awaken in women the awareness of raising their voices and it succeeds. It is about an international academic who is accused of sexual harassment by the best student in the class and they are taken to the school hearing to clarify things, but the situations that arise turn the case around. Quality. Entertaining Baffling. Current. Safety pin. Slightly parsimonious, they abuse the detail of developing each thing in the last situation, so the duration of 2 hours and 30 minutes. The script is interesting and smart. Some performances are at the level and others not so much. Told in two times where the present is in full screen and the past in cinema mode. A film that simply seeks to raise awareness. A powerful African drama.

Citation delivers on giving us a logical representation of what happens in the real world to a large percentage of the youth, particularly students, and more particularly those of the female gender.

It portrays the flaws in the educational system, the power of the judicial system, the strength in a positive united voice and agenda, and the fault in our so-called stars. It's narrative sequence and epic flashbacks deserve honorable mentions as they draw us deep into realms unfamiliar and virtually unseen to the distant eye.

Morever, at such a sensitive time as this in the year 2020; it butresses the point of power in the people; and most importantly echoes this particular quote- "The government should be afraid of the people, and not the other way around" .

The manipulation, the jury, the tales of well-favored lies, together with the splendid academia, fun, celebrations and music all make this movie a must see!

More than 11% of all level students experience rape or sexual assault! Only 20% of female students report such incident to authorities. Even though 2/3rd of college students experience sexual harassment in campus, 89% of colleges report no such incident on campuses. (Source: American Association of University Women) And the data in a country like Nigeria is quite appalling! "The majority (69.8%) of the respondents had been sexually harassed, with the main perpetrators being male classmates and lecturers. And requests to do something sexual in exchange for academic favors is 32.2%." (Source: National Library of Medicine) The story contextualizes this horrid issue. It is based on the true events. Good cinematography esp few sceneries from Cape Verde and Senegal... .However, shorter runtime could have made this movie crispier. Also, the script writing lacks subtleness with somewhat middle-of-the-road dialogues. But it is still a MUST watch movie as it still captures the quintessence of the issue and delivers a clear message.

For me, This movie has a good story but it was unnecessarily long, had unnecessary scenes and it was slow. Plot holes and weak acting that appears so exaggerated. Boring, not gripping, baffling Unrealistic characters as well for a Nigerian setting. I had to keep checking if I've watched up to 45minutes. The plot holes were terrible nothing made me want to watch more

Jimmy Jean-Louis saved the day😃 Citation could have been more stimulating if only it had deviated from the norm...

DELICIOUS

-Jimmy Jean-Louis is a master at his craft. He was deceptive, seductive, smart, elegant, and malignant, he was just splendid 🙌🏾

-The storytelling opened up to a vibrant scene that kept us hooked and set the narrative for the rest of the movie

-The character Lucien was well designed; he had lots of facets that it was hard to decipher who he really was, even at the end, we still felt there were many more dark areas about him

-A good awareness of student sexual harassment

BLAND

-As the lead role, Temi Otedola was not confident when delivering her lines; you could tell through her eyes that she was so uncomfortable😣

And Ini Edo was quite synthetic, a bit overdoing it...

-Is Citation taking place in the past? We were a little confused due to professor Lucien's hairstyle and the color grading; they both appeared antique

-The scenes in Senegal were a bit too stretched making it look like a touristic advertisement rather than complementing the story

-At the end of the day, we've seen tons of stories similar to Citation that it wasn't gripping. A touch of suspense and innovation could have raised the bar.