Dirty, Pretty Things

The motion-picture show mirky Pretty Things was directed by Stephen Frears. He directed movie theaters 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 cab madcap looking for passengers in the airport. later on 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, viewers are introduced to the rest of the cast. Senay is a young Turkish Muslim woman working as a cleaning lady. Other key players are Ivan, the hotels greeter, Seor underhand Juan, the hotel operator, and Juliette, a prostitute. In between 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 trying to survive in life in London. In Britains gorgeous city, they are the invisible people t hat do what must be done in order to keep the city political campaign. They are the ones that drive, clean, and prostitute themselves for a city that fails to acknowledge their presence. In surviving, they moil and work hard but 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 also an grammatical constituent of abuse. Senay was forced 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 employed 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 after her and decided to hale her into performing sexual favors.The story is also about secrets hidden away to keep a fa fruit drink of beauty and to make it seem like nothing is wrong. Okwe finds in the lavatory of hotel room 510 a gracious 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 care their kidneys for a passport an identity. In return, Sneaky gets 10,000, profiting from desperate people who will face death secure to finally have an identity.Sneaky also manages to uncover Okwes dark past. Okwe was a Nigerian mend charged with murdering his wife and is now in London after fleeing from his home country to escape prosecution. Sneaky offered Okwe a job as the person to perform the operations so that human hearts from murdered migrants no longer find their way into lavatories. The story plays out and Okwe finally agrees to perform the operation 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 runni ng and hiding, as migrant workers without legal identities are forced to escape from one imprimatur 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 posterior Senay and becoming Isabella. For Okwe, he finally faced his fear of persecution to go back to Nigeria and his daughter, Valerie.I recommend the film for anyone who appreciates films that depict genuine 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 mint to hide. Stephen Frears successfully presents viewers with a taste of the hardship that invisible people undergo just to survive.