Dirty Pretty Things
Movie Review
March 21, 2007
About:
2002
Genre: Drama
A grim little fable about immigrants (legal and illegal) living on the edge of survival in the shadows of London, this movie has all kinds of horrors — for the socially conscious, there’s the horror of the immigrant experience and all its exploitations, and for the more hardcore thriller fans there’s the bloodier thrills of the black-market organ trade. Chiwetel Ejiofor is entirely convincing as the illegal immigrant doctor turned cab driver/hotel receptionist, Audrey Tatou is fawn-like and vulnerable as maltreated Turkish immigrant Senay, and Sophie Okonedo fans (me! me!) will enjoy her turn as a cocky whore. It’s a very sad tale, sad enough that I’m reluctantly putting it on my list of Movies Too Depressing To Ever Watch Again. But it’s definitely worth watching, particularly if you’re in a hate-the-world! kind of mood already.
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