Keywords
mysticism
ritual killing
Cultural content
Psychosocial-exchange
Abstract
The main objectives of this study were to identify political style, mysticism, ritual killing and cultural content in Seven Doors as the film was adjudged in this study to be a ratiocination of a fictional work in the context of political lifestyle, cultural and mystic world in which the Yoruba Kingship and enthronement system was enmeshed. Alchemical, cultural and mystical expressions of literature in which there was a spark and emergence from deep levels of man’s transcendental self; its capture of the field of consciousness and conversion of rearrangement of his mystic feelings, thoughts, and will about new centre of life in the hands of fate were explored as a focus of the study in which such expressions were well examined, interpreted and analyzed.
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Filmography
Seven Doors was written and produced by Femi Adebayo and released on the 13th December, 2024, and directed by the trio of Femi Adebayo, Adebayo Tijani and Tope Adebayo
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