After chatting with tash online last nite, i just couldn't fall asleep. Mabey i slept too much during the nap?
And so i watched a midnight show at home: Dirty Pretty Things.
Dirty Pretty Things is a British movie which were made by both Miramax Films from America and BBC Films from England (and our tutors strongly encourages us to listen to BBC programmes, because they made quality programmes. But seriously, how many of us bother listen to it?) From the cast and crew, we have:
Script written by Steven Knight, the man behind the world's most famous Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?
Directed by Stephen Frears, the man behind the classic homo-melodrama My Beautiful Laundrette by Daniel Day Lewis Dangerous Liaisons (first is Christopher Hampton who translated Les Liaisons Dangereuses from print to stage in 1986, then Frears put Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pffeifier, Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves onto the big screen version in 1988, and then J.Y Lee put Bae Yong Jun, Lee Mik Shu and Jeon Doo Yong into the infamous Korean Sex Scandal Vol 1 aka Untold Scandal (where S'pore ah soh's touched Bae's butt when he was in S'pore to promote the then rated RA movie), and then, Rabil and Ms Beatrice Chia bring the play onto the stage earlier this year.)
Starring Audrey Tautou, the French actress in Amelie. Yes, that French beauty. Tautou's first English speaking role. Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks is her next English speaking role.
The thriller explores the dark side of London, about an illegal Nigerian immigrant Okwe, who works as a cabbie by day, and hotel service man at night. One night, he happened to found a human heart stuck in a toilet bowl, and he did not dare to call the police: because of a secret he had. He became an illegal immigrant as he was a wanted man back in Africa. He was a doctor, and he killed his wife. He became a wanted criminal, and he do not want his life to end in the gallows, so he choose to run away.
He met Senay (Tautou), a Turkish chambermaid, who is also an illegal immigrant, and both of them lived together. Both lives were in danger when they are wanted by the police while working in the same workplace. He still works as a cabbie, but he decided to quit his job in the hotle hen his real identity was exposed by his boss, who 1) sells fake passports to illegal immigrants, 2) sells organs to underground syndicates by buying organs from the poor.
When Senay worked as a seamstress in a factory producing imitation goods, she sold her body in exchange for money, so as to fufill her dream to step into America for a better life. However, when Senay want to move a step closer to her American dream, she prostitute herself to her boss, and agrees to sell one of her kidney in exchange for a passport. She prostitute herself, but Okwe came, and both decided to took their revenge on the boss: both removed his kidney instead.
Kidney was sold and they gotten ther money, and both headed straight down to the airport. While Senay begins her American dream, Okwe deicded to surrender himself to the police...
The End of a sad tale of illegal immigrants. Knight wrote the dark tales, Frears brings out the dark tales, Tautou acted the dark tales. In the end, you get the secrets of illegal immigants who are willing to sell part of their body to fufill their dreams.
Not a movie that is really suitable for midnight show, cos you see heart and bodies and kidneys, filled with blood.