Trade Secrets: How to Procure a Passport

People often take a great deal for granted darn dismissing so much of what goes on around them. This is especially true when what people fail to see involves the plight of illegal immigrants and low-level workers. These un noniced persons are the truly individuals around whom the plot of director Stephen Frearss Dirty Pretty Secrets revolves. They are the people like lead character Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who describes himself and his friends 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 works against their success occasionally, the anonymity of these unseen people provides the perfect cover for their ingress into mainstream societyprovided that they can tolerate what must(prenominal) be done along the way.The storyline of Dirty Pretty Secrets which is set in London, England, revolves primarily around triplet people Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a cabbie by day and a desk clerk at the Baltic Hotel by night Senay (Audrey Tautou), a friend 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 distribution center for anything that will net him money closely notably, human 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 emgambitee and friend of Okwes. As the film progresses, the audience learns that Okwe is an illegal immigrant who was compel to flee his home in Lagos, Nigeria after macrocosm falsely incriminate of his wifes murder. Okwe was working as a pathologist when a Nigerian Government official was shot, and when Okwe refused to destroy evidence of the crime, his home was firebombedwith his wife inside.The Nigerian police accused Okwe of the crime, so he fled. Senay is an immigrant from Turkey, and while she is not an illegal, she is forced to violate the immigration policies of London to survive. 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 both Okwe and Senay, and the stratum to which he is willing to exploit their secrets leads to the storys pivotal scene.The about prevalent themes in Dirty Pretty Things are human integrity join with how the need to remain secretive can result in personal compromise and leave one open to mistreatment, but the sub-theme is how the people who go overlooked often band together to survive and support one another against their foes. Okwe is a sympathetic character, and as the plot progresses, the audience begins to see that he must make escalating choices that challenge his sense of right and wrong. Because he is a fugitive from jus tice, he is eventually coerced by Sneaky to participate in his organ-trading scheme.Senay is also genuinely likable, especially after the audience sees that the secrecy and prudishness she initially displays are due to her immigrant status and her being Muslim. Once the Immigration Enforcement Directors begin to hunt her down, she is forced to seek alternate employment and is immediately made a sex toy 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 head 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 depth to this movie where most of the people Okwe and Senay associate with take advantage of their situations and exploit them, Guo and Juliettea mor gue 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 appeal to a wide-range of viewers.The plot is timely and gritty, the performing 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 bristle up and cheer 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 dictated by that feeling of inferiority will likely make out this movie, and certainly, those open to reevaluating their prejudice against illegal immigrants will be forced to think again about their postion.