Dirty, Pretty Things

The movie Dirty Pretty Things was say by Stephen Frears. He directed films like Hero and the award-winning High Fidelity. The movie stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Okwe and Audrey Tautou as Senay who are the two main characters of the film. The story begins with Okwe as a literary hack driving looking for passengers in the airport. After the end of his shift as cab driver, the story reveals that he has a second job at the front desk of the Baltic Hotel as a receptionist.In the Baltic Hotel, viewing audience are introduced to the rest of the cast. Senay is a young Turkish Muslim woman work as a cleaning lady. Other key players are Ivan, the hotels greeter, Seor Sneaky Juan, the hotel operator, and Juliette, a prostitute. In surrounded by Okwes 2 jobs, he regularly meets with Guo Yi, a legal immigrant working at a mortuary and his friend.The film is about Okwe and emigrant workers try to survive in life in London. In Britains comely city, they are the invisible multitude that do wh at must be do in order 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 besides they are not recognized as legal citizens. Gui Yi expresses this when he tells Okwe, you are illegal you have nothing you are nothing.Because they have no identity, there is withal an element of abuse. Senay was compel 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 utilize or receive any rent for a period of 6 months. In fleeing, she gets a job in a sweatshop making clothes. Her chieftain finds out that Immigration Enforcement was after her and decided to blackmail her into exerciseing internal favors.The story is in any case about secrets hidden away to keep a faade of beauty 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 one-sided secret that the hotel operator Sneaky is hiding. The hotel operator preys on immigrants, getting them to change their kidneys for a passport an identity. In return, Sneaky gets 10,000, profiting from desperate people who lead face death just to in the end have an identity.Sneaky also manages to uncover Okwes dark past. Okwe was a Nigerian doctor charged with murdering his wife and is now in London after fleeing from his home republic to escape prosecution. Sneaky offered Okwe a job as the person to perform the accomplishments so that human hearts from dead migrants no protracted find their way into lavatories. The story plays out and Okwe eventually agrees to perform the effect on Senay. But Okwe and Senay conspired instead to drug Sneaky and perform the operation on him instead and sold his kidney.After selling Sneakys kidney, the 2 main characters finally had enough money to escape. The movie was also about runn ing 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 Londons airport is symbolic. For Senay, she finally got an identity, leaving behind Senay and becoming Isabella. For Okwe, he finally faced his apprehension of persecution to go back to Nigeria and his daughter, Valerie.I recommend the film for anyone who appreciates films that depict reliable stories, away from the fantasies that a lot of films today offer. Dirty Pretty 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.