Dirty Pretty Things

Dirty Pretty Things takes place in London. There are two immigrants who work in the same hotel, Senay and Okwe. Senay is an immigrant from Turkey and Okwe, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, rents her couch so he can have a place to stay. He drives cabs during the day and works at the front desk of the Baltic Hotel at night. He rarely sleeps and buys drugs to keep him awake. During one of his nights at desk a prostitute comes down from one of the rooms. She says that something was wrong with one of the rooms and that he should check on it. He goes to unclog the toilet and finds a human heart in it. He because concerned and tells the man who runs the hotel about it. He says to forget about it and everyone that is around Okwe seems to know something that he doesn’t. They warn him not to get involved. Immigration comes after Senay at the hotel because she is not allowed to working and they visited her, she is not allowed to have anyone renting from her. She narrowly escapes both incidents, but she cannot come back to the hotel as a maid, so she goes to work at a sweatshop. The man who runs the sweatshop realizes that Senay is in trouble because the police come and all of the workers have to run. To stay there and to not call the police the man sexually abuses her.
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Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Okwe, who was a doctor in Nigeria, finds a man in the hotel who needs a hospital, but will not go. He realizes that this man gave his kidney illegally to obtain an American passport. Okwe finds out that the hotel manager is giving people passports for their kidneys. He sees it as okay because he is helping a person who needs a kidney is getting one and a person who needs a passport is getting one, but Okwe does not agree to help. Senay gets tired of the abuse and decides that she needs a passport and we find out that she knew all along what was going on, she had to clean up after the operations. The man who does the operations is not good at all; this is why there was a heart in the toilet and decides the only way to save Senay is to do the operation himself. Okwe and Senay get passports and then trick the manager and take his kidney instead. Okwe goes home to Nigeria and Senay goes to New York to stay with her sister.
This movie was shocking and anyone who watches it needs to be away of the R rating. It showed a dramatic side of the poverty that was happening at the Baltic Hotel. Drug dealers, hookers, and illegal organ donating was just everyday occurrences. It was sad to see the people in the hotel and the workers in the sweatshop just accept what they had to do and their only way out seemed to be to obtain these illegal passports, but they were at quite a cost.