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Walter Kittel · 08-31-2003, 12:52 AM

Saw Dirty Pretty Things this evening. Short version - my impressions match up fairly well with those of the other posters in this thread.

The film benefitted greatly from a strong, sympathetic performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor. Tautou was less believable, but still got the job done. The supporting cast was uniformly excellent and the scope of the characters, in terms of their places of origin, really helped the film sell its vision of immigrants living in the cracks of society.

The dialog near the conclusion of the film by Okwe, 'we are the ones who clean your hotel rooms' seemed like a nod to Fight Club and its themes of the disaffected who exist in the fringes.

Pretty solid film. I did have one nagging question though -

Spoiler:

- Walter.

08-31-2003, 12:52 AM	#273 of 409
Walter Kittel Member Join Date: Dec 1998 Local Time: 05:54 PM Local Date: 08-21-2008 Posts: 4,798	Saw Dirty Pretty Things this evening. Short version - my impressions match up fairly well with those of the other posters in this thread. The film benefitted greatly from a strong, sympathetic performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor. Tautou was less believable, but still got the job done. The supporting cast was uniformly excellent and the scope of the characters, in terms of their places of origin, really helped the film sell its vision of immigrants living in the cracks of society. The dialog near the conclusion of the film by Okwe, 'we are the ones who clean your hotel rooms' seemed like a nod to Fight Club and its themes of the disaffected who exist in the fringes. Pretty solid film. I did have one nagging question though - Spoiler: Where did the heart come from? Why would it have been removed from a body? Certainly no one would sell their heart. What happened to the body from which it was removed? Was it removed in the hotel? Seems unlikely. - Walter.