Political Style, Mysticism, Ritual Killing, and Cultural Content: A Psychosocial Reading of Femi Adebayo's Seven Doors

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. The theoretical framework chosen for this study was 'Psycho-Social-Exchange'- an amalgam of Psychosocial and Social Exchange theories which were placed under the review of Blau's (1964) and Cropanzano's (2017) evolutions of Social Exchange theory in Literature in which there must have been an expression of actions from an individual or group of individuals on a certain course that must be contingent on rewarding reactions from other quarters. This engagement, which involved sacrificing other people's well-being or lives to achieve longevity, was an action caused by the progeny of the protagonist of the film, which attracted dire consequences. The methodology was Qualitative Content Analysis, which aimed at analyzing the content style chosen as a technique option in the film. The primary data for this study were gathered from Seven Doors, a December 13th, 2024, Netflix film produced by Femi Adebayo and directed by the trio of Femi Adebayo, Adebayo Tijani and Tope Adebayo. Information was also sourced from books, articles from journals and the Internet. The study found that there were consequences for every action.