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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

'Dirty, Pretty Things\r'

'The movie Dirty pretty Things was directed by Stephen Frears.  He directed films comparable Hero and the award-winning High Fidelity.  The movie stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Okwe and Audrey Tautou as Senay who argon the two main characters of the film.  The paper begins with Okwe as a cab driving look for passengers in the airport.  After the end of his shift as cab driver, the story reveals that he has a s proscribedh cheat at the front desk of the Baltic Hotel as a receptionist.\r\nIn the Baltic Hotel, viewers argon introduced to the rest of the cast.  Senay is a young Turkish Moslem woman proceeding as a cleanup position lady.  Other key players atomic number 18 Ivan, the hotel’s greeter, Señor â€Å" corrupt” Juan, the hotel operator, and Juliette, a prostitute.  In amidst Okwe’s 2 jobs, he regularly meets with Guo Yi, a legal immigrant working at a dead room and his friend.\r\nThe film is ab stunned Okwe and emigrant workers trying to give out in life in London.  In Britain’s beautiful city, they are the inconspicuous heap that do what must be done in nine to keep the city running.  They are the ones that drive, clean, and prostitute themselves for a city that fails to acknowledge their presence.  In surviving, they labor and work hard but they are not acknowledge as legal citizens.  Gui Yi expresses this when he tells Okwe, â€Å"you are illegal… you stick nothing… you are nothing.”\r\nBecause they have no identity, there is also an element of abuse.  Senay was coerce to leave her job at the Baltic Hotel because of the immigration Enforcement Directive.  They were investigating her because she is not supposed to be occupied or receive any rent for a period of 6 months.  In fleeing, she gets a job in a sweatshop making clothes.  Her boss finds out that Immigration Enforcement was afterwards her and decided to blackmail her into do sexual favo rs.\r\nThe story is also close secrets hugger-mugger away to keep a façade of steady and to make it seem like nothing is wrong.  Okwe finds in the lavatory of hotel room 510 a human heart.  Unknowingly, he has stumbled into a dark secret that the hotel operator Sneaky is hiding.  The hotel operator preys on immigrants, getting them to sell their kidneys for a passport †an identity.  In return, Sneaky gets £10,000, profiting from desperate spate who will face death just to at last have an identity.\r\nSneaky also manages to uncover Okwe’s dark past.  Okwe was a Nigerian doctor charged with murdering his wife and is now in London after fleeing from his rest home country to escape prosecution.  Sneaky offered Okwe a job as the person to perform the trading surgical operations so that human hearts from dead migrants no longer find their way into lavatories.  The story plays out and Okwe at long last agrees to perform the operation on Sen ay.   barely Okwe and Senay conspired instead to drug Sneaky and perform the operation on him instead and sold his kidney.\r\nAfter sell Sneaky’s kidney, the 2 main characters finally had nice money to escape.  The movie was also about running and hiding, as migrant workers without legal identities are forced to escape from one authority to the next.  With enough money, Senay flies to her cousin in New York and Okwe returns home to his daughter Valerie in Nigeria.  With the money the running was finally over for Okwe and Senay and their parting at London’s airport is symbolic.  For Senay, she finally got an identity, leaving behind â€Å"Senay” and sightly â€Å"Isabella”.  For Okwe, he finally faced his fear of persecution to go back to Nigeria and his daughter, Valerie.\r\nI recommend the film for anyone who appreciates films that return genuine stories, away from the fantasies that a lot of films immediately offer.  Dirty Pret ty Things shows a great, beautiful city like London from the perspective of regular people with everything to gain and a great deal to hide. Stephen Frears successfully presents viewers with a taste of the hardship that invisible people undergo just to survive.\r\n'

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