dirty pretty things review

Dirty Pretty Thing is a social realism msyteroy living with crime film based in modrern London shot in 2002 with plot holes during the film but all is filled at the end of the film but theses holes keep you guessing until the end where all is explained to a degree.

it was directed by Stephen Frears who has done previous work such as The Queen and the film was produced by bbc film and ,colour film.
so the stage is set and the time has come lets begin the show.
now with most of my reviews I would tell you what I will be focusing on and why should this be any different. so ill be focusing on the story for the majority but giving the protagonists and antagonists there own little part in this review.

so lets introduce the characters of the film from bad to good. first off we start with the antagonist Sneaky/Juan is acted by Sergi lopez who portraits this greedy hotel manager to the maximum, this character only goal is to gain a profit and gain substantial amount of money after he retries and this characters traits are fitting he has a silver tongue convincing people to do so, to scenes when someone is desperate enough to give up a'lot for what they need and also how to talk his way out of pretty much anything with his connections his money and his all out attitude he is one guy who knows what he wants and how to get it.

Then we have Juliet played by Sophie Okonedo who is a working girl that comes into the hotel to work for clients in the hotel the two protagonist who work there. Juliet is a very trust worthy person as she dosent question what she does and why she does it as long as she gets paid as in the 2000 prostitution is illegal but no one questions her as she causes no trouble. but early on after attending to one of her client's something shocking is found. Juliet personality is loyal comforting and relaxed but this made her a funny charecter as "shes is the one that sucks your cocks"

Then we have Senay Gelik played by Audrey Tautou is a refugee this means she is not aloud to work she's not aloud out of the country and she's not aloud to have a adventurous life basicly. but this woman is an independent and resourceful women which means she knows how to get a job and to live a life. when the film starts she is a dreamer wanting to go to new York which is a dream of hers since she has family there so she thinks she will be fine, she dreams about the white horses and the police men riding them in the park a city full of lights but due to circumstances this is a difficult and gruelling task. she is also instantly hassled by two immigration agents which I believe to do with them not liking slums (dosent actually say this but I believe the characters are racists). this is my favourite character as this portale of the scenario is a believable one as well as the fact that she acts like a human instead of someone that is there for a job and dosent care about that performance. so well done to the writers and Audrey for the steller performance and she is "the one who cleans your rooms".

now we have  Okwe played by Chowetel Ejiofor who is a african who works at the same hotel as Senay but with a major major major diffrences he is a illegal immagrant who had to leave his daughter in africa for reasons I dare not spoil but its not good reasons. lets leave it at that. anyway Okwe eats a plant to keep him awake and it seems he has about 1 hour of sleep a day or at least not much as he is a taxi driver in the day to "save people that the system has failed"
and at night he works the front desk of the hotel which he has gained a realtionship with the door greeter but Okwe is a very able person he can out smart most and can be reasourcesful with the people he meets and people he be friends to get extra pay or get a few jobs here and there and finally he is very sneaky as he can pretend to work in place he has never seen/been in a day in his life but he "is the one who drives your cabs".

there you have it the "people you do not see" so what better than to give a little bit of context to why some of the charceters lives are so bad due to the law that concerns them.

"In June 2000 the bodies of 58 Chinese peoplewere discovered in a refrigerated lorry arriving in Dover. The tragedy occurred at a time when enormous media attention was already focused on the number of asylum seekers trying to smuggle themselves through the Channel tunnel from the Sangatte refugee camp near the Calais entrance to the tunnel. The Home Office drew two lessons from these incidents. First, that the asylum system was being abused by economic migrants seeking to join the UK labour market; and second that closer control of the entry of low-skilled workers would stem the number of people entering illegally."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jan/15/nationality-immigration-asylum-act (i dont not own this extract all credit goes to the guardian website and the writer of the article)

now because of theses finding Britain had a clap down on immigration and boarder control and so we did we invested millions to boarder controls and training of personnel and of that year decreased by a significant amount in the hundreds of thousand (that we know about) dropped to a high amount of tens of thousands (baby steps baby steps) but as illegal immigrants are still getting in to the country immigration officers are now like police in the scene of with a warrant they can search the premises and see if someone that has asylum or is under a watch list is working when they are not meant to.