Dirty Pretty Things
Dirty Pretty Things
R | 20 December 2002 (USA)
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An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

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LauritsNF

This movie is in my opinion a alright movie. It's about Owke and Senay. Owke are a Nigerian doctor and senay is a Turkish chambermaid. They work at West London hotel. The hotel they work for, are a bit of a dirty hotel, and Owke discovers something nasty in the toilet in the hotel. my personal meaning is that its pretty boring, i myself didn't find it very interesting or funny. one of the reasons why i didn't find it that good was maybe because i don't like these types of movies. But it can of course be a good film if you like this type of movies.another reason can be that i didn't like the music, and sounds in the film. it did often felt like it was an epic scene in the movie even thought it wasn't. It was specially one scene in the movie that felt like a scary movie when it wasn't scary or something like that at all.

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mariellangva

This is a movie about two immigrants living in London. The two main characters is Owke, a man from Nigeria and a Turkish woman called Senay. Baisackly this Movie is about the two of them, trying to get a Passport, and they get involved in a bad environment. I guess this movie have a good manuscript, if you are a bit older, and have interest for these types of movies, but to be honest i did not like this movie at all. It was boring, and I had trouble understanding what they said because of their English, and therefore i did not really get much out of the movie. I don't think this is a movie for teenagers, since the movie it self was quite boring, and difficult to understand.

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isakpbjerkeset

the plot was easy to understand, it was boring. there were no plot twists that made your brain work. the plot was too simple. it gave a insight to the world of illegal immigration and the hardship they go through. the acting was good, it is a bit tricky with all the roles and their relationships. and they acted differently around each character. he was more gentle around some than others. but that is expected of the actors. especially when they had a big budget. the music, sound and cuts were good. but not exceptional. it is a good movie for educational purposes, however i would not spend my or anyone else's time on watching it.

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Robert J. Maxwell

Oh, those undocumented aliens, always messing everything up! Of course they have THEIR tribulations as well, and this story illustrates some of them, the sort of things that constitute what politicians call "life in the shadows." The two features players -- Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tatou -- are immigrants living in London. He's illegal, a doctor working two jobs as at the front desk of a respectable hotel and as a taxi driver at night, chewing stimulant weeds to keep awake. Her status is marginal -- she can't live with a man and isn't allowed to work. She does both, and the Minister of Immigration agents are always nipping at her heels.The story opens with Ejiofor in his desk manager role trying to unplug a toilet in one of the nicely appointed rooms and finding a human heart is causing the problem. It develops that the sneaky manager is running a business in which illegals yield up an organ in return for carefully forged passports that will allow them to leave England and make a new start elsewhere.That's only part of the array of options open to an illegal. You can find work in a sweatshop whose manager pays you less than scale and who insists that if you're an attractive young woman, as Audrey Tatou is, you give him some "relief" during the lunch break. She gives him relief the first time then bites him the second time, losing her job. The climax has an unexpected twist.I admire the way the film was executed. It's in no way dumbed down. Even the Spaniard working the organ business has a reasonable explanation for what he's doing -- from his point of view, everybody benefits. Tatou is cute and pouty throughout, as a refugee from Turkey. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a likable actor, handsome, polite, decent. His style is what some directors call -- well, I can't use the term here but it ends in "--kickers," in which the actor keeps his face lowered, as if looking at some cow flop he's about to nudge with the toe of his boot, and glancing up from time to time at the person he's speaking to. With some actors that can be a mannerism but with him it seems part of his quiet persona.Nobody's head gets wrenched off. It's not an action movie. It's not even much of a mystery. It's a well-plotted tale of an African guy who peeks a bit too deeply into his milieu and finds the tissue is beginning to decompose.

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