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Dirty Pretty things

This idea is used to great effect in Stephen Frears earlier work My Beautiful Laundrette where he establishes a world that is familiar and yet it is different. This same idea is used in Dirty Pretty Things as we as the audience all realise that the film is set in London so in that respect it is familiar but we do not know what goes on in the immigration world so it is, "unknown from an insider/outsider/ point of view- . As Robert Murphy explains, previous films show Britain in a romanticised and idealistic way e.g. Four Weddings and a funeral whereas Stephen Frears tries to make his films grittier and show something of what really goes on. There is also the important as to how British black cinema is different from American black cinema some say it is, "the post-colonial hybridisation of British culture- that differentiates it from America. However one must remember that in America they had a black hero long before Britain did - Sydney Poitier - and Stephen Frears has commented on the fact that Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things is the first African to be the protagonist in a British film. This shows how black cinema in Britain needs to advance. It also shows how Frears has managed to advance black British cinema in one film and how much this film was needed to be made. .
             The film Dirty Pretty Things is set in London and it shows a slice of life of illegal immigrants. The film can be said to be a thriller but others have thought there to be a touch of romance and film noir in it as well. The genre of a film is difficult to decide on as, "no strictly logical distinctions can capture the variety of factors that create the genres- . So why is, Dirty Pretty Things said to be a thriller? And why does Stephen Frears use the genre of the thriller for this film? To answer the first question, Dirty Pretty Things has many aspects of a thriller in that there is a mystery surrounding Okwe throughout the whole film and it is only nearing the end that we discover the truth.


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