Trade Secrets: How to Procure a Passport

People often take a great deal for granted while dismissing so much of what goes on near them. This is especially true when what people fail to agnize involves the engross of illegal immigrants and low-level workers. These unnoticed persons are the very individuals around whom the speckle of director Stephen Frearss ill-scented Pretty Secrets revolves. They are the people like lead character Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who describes himself and his boosters as The people you do not see .. . the ones who drive your cabs, clean your rooms, and suck your cocks (Dirty Pretty Secrets). Generally, the transparency of their existence deeds once morest their success occasionally, the anonymity of these unseen people provides the perfect cover for their mesmerise into mainstream societyprovided that they can tolerate what must be done on the way.The storyline of Dirty Pretty Secrets which is set in London, England, revolves primarily around triad people Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a ca bbie by day and a desk sales shop assistant at the Baltic Hotel by night Senay (Audrey Tautou), a fri suppress of Okwes, who is a maid at the Baltic Hotel and Sneaky (Sergi Lpez), the head clerk at the Baltic who uses the motel as a distri only whenion center for anything that leave behind net him moneymost notably, man organs.The complex relationships that surround these three characters are further developed by two supporting actors Sophie Okonedo, who plays Juliette, the Baltics resident hooker and Benedict Wong, who plays Guo Yi, a morgue em contrivanceee and friend of Okwes. As the film progresses, the audience learns that Okwe is an illegal immigrant who was forced to flee his post in Lagos, Nigeria subsequently organism falsely accused of his wifes murder. Okwe was working as a pathologist when a Nigerian governing official was shot, and when Okwe refused to destroy evidence of the crime, his home was firebombedwith his wife inside.The Nigerian constabulary accused Okw e of the crime, so he fled. Senay is an immigrant from Turkey, and while she is not an illegal, she is forced to pamper the immigration policies of London to conk out. Specifically, she is not allowed to work during the six-month period during which her case is being reviewed therefore, to survive, she works illegally. Sneaky is living and working in London legally, so he is in a position to take advantage of twain Okwe and Senay, and the degree to which he is willing to action their secrets leads to the storys diametric scene.The most prevalent themes in Dirty Pretty Things are human integrity coupled with how the need to remain secretive can moderate in personal agree and leave one blossom forth to mistreatment, but the sub-theme is how the people who go unnoticed often band together to survive and support one another against their foes. Okwe is a sympathetic character, and as the piece progresses, the audience begins to see that he must make escalating choices that chall enge his whizz of right and wrong. Because he is a fugitive from justice, he is eventually coerced by Sneaky to participate in his organ-trading scheme.Senay is also very likable, especially after the audience sees that the secrecy and prudishness she initially displays are due to her immigrant attitude and her being Muslim. Once the Immigration Enforcement Directors begin to hunt her down, she is forced to test alternate employment and is immediately made a sex gip by her sweat-shop boss. Senay becomes the final piece in Sneakys ploy to force Okwe to become the Baltics organ doctor when she, in an act of desperation, agrees to give up a kidney in exchange for a passport Okwe agrees to perform the surgery to ensure that Senay is not butchered.Like Okwe, Senay is forced to compromise more and more of herself in order to survive. The juxtaposing of Okwe with Guo and Senay with Juliette adds even greater understanding to this movie where most of the people Okwe and Senay associate with take advantage of their situations and exploit them, Guo and Juliettea morgue worker and a hookerhelp the main characters survive and persevere it is a banding together of those whom society fails to acknowledge. Dirty Pretty Things is an excellent film on a variety of levels and should evoke to a wide-range of viewers.The plot is timely and gritty, the acting is superb, and the turning of the tables at the end of the moviewhen Okwe and Senay exploit Sneakys greed and end up taking his kidneymake one want to stand up and hearten for the justice that is served and the underdogs who dish it out. Anyone who has felt inferior and has been forced to make choices rigid by that feeling of inferiority will likely enjoy this movie, and certainly, those open to reevaluating their prejudice against illegal immigrants will be forced to think again about their postion.