Dirty Pretty Things
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Movie Reviews of Dirty Pretty Things
Movie Review: Dirty Pretty Things is 5 thumbs up!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Dirty Pretty Things" is an outstanding movie showing the struggle that illegal immigrants must go through to get into America. "Okwe" is an African-American who was a doctor back in his home town. He comes to London and finds a job as a cab driver and a front desk clerk of a ritzy hotel in London. One day while trying to fix a toilet in one of the hotel's guest rooms, Okwe discovers the problem that is clogging up the toilet is a human heart. He immediately realizes this is no ordinary hotel and it is filled with many surprises including prostitution, drugs, and illegal side jobs. Okwe temporarily lives with one of the hotel maids and the two of them eventually fall in love. Their journey portrays the challenges that immigrants face to get to America. They must change their entire identity and lifestyle in order to reach their goal of freedom. This is a very touching movie with a surprisingly-twisted ending and I recommend that everyone see it at least once to understand how much we take living in this wonderful country, filled with opportunities, everywhere for granted.
Movie Review: Very different type of thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not your ordinary cops and robbers story. The protagonist Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London who discovered a human heart blocking the toilet in the hotel where he works. He's a hard-working man who drives a taxi in the day and works in a hotel at night. He rents the couch of a Turkish girl, Senay (Audrey Tautou).
He reports the heart to his boss, who refuses to report the incident and advises the man that the hotel business is about strangers who will always surprise them. "It's our job to make everything pretty in the morning."
Okwe cannot speak to the police, but he cannot let the incident go either.
"Dirty Pretty Things" gives us a view of the seedier side of London. This is definitely a thinking person's mystery with a different and fascinating story. Kept me watching all the way through.
Rebecca Kyle, December 2008
Movie Review: A thriller about forgotten people
Summary: 5 Stars
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an illegal refugee from Nigeria, a doctor who scrapes by on two jobs in a London peopled by immigrants. One night, while trying to unclog a toilet in one of the rooms of the hotel where he works, he discovers a human heart stuffed into the pipes. This provides his unwilling entry into a very dark part of the underground economy, where he will ultimately be faced with choices that no one should have to make.
This terrific film uses the basic structure of a thriller to present a very human story with characters that are very easy to empathize with. These are good people with tragic stories trying to find a place in a world that seems to have no room for them. The relationship between Okwe and the Turkish girl Senay (Audrey Tautou), who has fled an arranged marriage, is very tender and melancholy. Kudos go to the entire cast as well as director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Steve Knight./
Movie Review: Tables are Turned
Summary: 5 Stars
What a delightful, chilling little film. How come Europe does film so much better than the US? No explosions ... no guts and gore ... no special effects... no gratuitous sex (although there is sex ... well, more like rape), as always ... it is about the characters.
Set primarily in a mid-scale London hotel, it is about the myriad illegal immigrants who flee their country of origin only to work the lowest of jobs that can be found. And what they have to do to escape detection and deportation. It is also about the underground organ trade where people give up a kidneys for a passport and money to try to reach their dreams. A love story between a Nigerian exile (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and a Turkish maid (Audrey Tautou from "Amelie") and their attempt at a better life. Tables are turned and it has wonderful but definitely not "American" ending.
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Movie Review: An original and affecting story
Summary: 5 Stars
While there are many dark subjects explored in this engrossing but deeply disturbing story, I found the film amazingly refreshing. It was a genuine pleasure to see complex and unusual characters, well developed and well acted, in a story about, to quote the lead character, "the people you never see -- the people who drive your taxis, clean your rooms, and suck your [Amazon would censor this]." The story was allowed to develop organically and didn't feel forced, in contrast to so many films that rely on choppy editing and awkward dialogue to advance the plot. And, while the film is not billed as a love story, the emotional attachment between the two lead characters is very affecting. The director, Stephen Frears, directed another of my favorites, "High Fidelity," and I now intend to make sure I see everything he's done.