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not easy to watch this movie. I'm almost going crazy by the chaotic subtitles. So if my understanding of this movie is wrong, I won't be surprised at all.
Each of us is pursuing a beautiful world in our imagination.
In the eyes of many people, London is a city that can bring happiness to people. The feasting here, the prosperous life here, naturally has its alluring sweetness. However, there is unavoidable filth behind it, which people living in this city have to face.
Everyone has a different experience of these contradictory words, but perhaps no one has a deeper and more real experience than those who live at the bottom of the illegal immigrants. They are a special group. In that society, they are a weak part, a depressed part, and even full of obscurity.
There is no way to get a group of people drying in the sun.
The movie "Dirty and Sweet Things" takes such a group as the protagonist, telling us a story full of ridicule, sadness, and fear.
1. About the story
The story is not complicated to sum up-Owen is an illegal Nigerian immigrant. He was originally a surgeon in the country, but had to abscond to the UK because of a crime he had never committed. In London, he drives a taxi during the day and works as a janitor at a run-down hotel at night to make ends meet. Senay, a colleague in the hotel, rented a bed for him. When Irving was repairing the plumbing in the hotel toilet, he accidentally touched a switch and discovered a living human heart, which seemed to have just been removed from the human body. He thus uncovered the conspiracy hidden behind this hotel. It turned out that the manager Snicky was in the business of reselling human organs. When Snicky learned of Owen's true identity, he threatened Owen to join their gang, otherwise he would be handed over to the immigration office.
The story of the film arrangement originated in the airport. With the broadcast, another group of people came to this fantastic city. The black Owen stood in the airport lobby, whispering to everyone who passed by if he was taking a taxi. The protagonist's appearance is very plain, just like his identity, can not attract the attention of others.
Yes, Owen is an illegal immigrant. He was in London, working as a taxi driver during the day and working as a part-time waiter in the hotel at night, carefully surviving. At this time, the rhythm of the film review was slow and steady, until Owen found the heart of the person clogged in the toilet.
A heart leads to the story of the film about the illegal trafficking of human organs.
Every city has its scars. In London, those illegal immigrants are its scars. They are placed at the bottom of the society, leading a dark life, carefully maintaining a fragile life. They are despised, ignored, hurt, and no one cares about their lives and deaths and their joys and sorrows-they are a group of abandoned people.
The appearance of the heart reveals the director's intentions. In his opinion, immigrants are precisely the group that should be promoted to an important position as the heart, but in fact, they have been stuffed in the "toilet" and covered in blood.
2. Regarding the character
Owen.
Irving is undoubtedly respectable. It is not just his integrity (from the back of the film we know that he was wanted for refusing to fake a corrupt government, was framed for murder and was forced to flee to London and become an illegal immigrant), but also his bravery , His persistence in justice, persistence in life, and friendliness to illegal immigrants all let us see the shining side of humanity.
He does not ask for compensation to help those immigrants and the people around him.
The owner of the rental car shop was tricked into cutting off the dirty immigrants... Owen's help to them won their friendship and trust. In their hard life, they cherish each other and support each other.
Owen also has a fragile side-he was very disturbed when facing Julie's love, he did not dare to promise Senay any good and future, as he himself said, for them, only survival is the most real. And love seems to be just a luxury. Irving’s escape from love also illustrates the awkward position of immigrants in this society. Their fear of surroundings and uncertainty about themselves make their lives always full of sadness and regret.
The contradictions in Owen’s body are in fact the living conditions of most immigrants.
GUO YI.
GUO YI is a good friend of Owen, who works as a guard in the morgue.
From the dialogue between him and Owen, it can be known that he has lived in London for more than ten years. Naturally, for many things, he looked more indifferent than Irving, or in other words, accepted more submissively. For example, after Irving told him about the heart, GUO YI's reaction can be said to be unsurprising, and he even persuaded Irving not to make a fuss. He threw piles of garbage into the incinerator, then turned around and said indifferently to Owen: "You have nothing. You are nothing." Then he said again when Owen was about to leave: "Hold on to help. Those who can help you are just fine."
I think this is the helplessness of GUO YI. On the one hand, he is used to seeing the darkness and injustice of this world, and knows his powerlessness. On the other hand, the kindness in nature made him unable to help those disadvantaged people, and try his best to help those around him even though he himself was included in the disadvantaged groups.
Hotel doorman.
The door guard was set to be a somewhat glib and indifferent role from the moment he appeared. The ridicule of Irving, the dissatisfaction with the guests, the hunger for prostitutes... Undoubtedly, he was the most typical representative of that era.
He has become accustomed to everything that happens in the hotel, and he understands the rules of survival in this society. On that night, he said to Owen in the kitchen: If you want to stay, don't care about who comes in and out.
It's not that I don't want to care, I can't care.
If you still want to survive.
Hotel manager Snicky.
There is a negative role in every movie, and Snicky is obviously not thankful. He is cruel, ruthless, selfish, and cruel. In order to make money, he disregarded the lives and deaths of others. In his eyes, the lives of immigrants could not be compared with those colorful banknotes. He took advantage of illegal immigrants' urgent need to obtain legal status, deceiving them that removing a kidney is as easy and safe as pulling a tooth; countless people died on his operating table, but he just rushed their bodies into the hotel. It’s just inside the sewer pipe.
If Owen is the representative of illegal immigrants, then Snicky is obviously the representative of the social exploiting class. They have orthodox identities, they make profits through various means, for which they can do everything that hurts the world without feeling guilty.
They are the sordid of this society. It is also true.
However, what is deep in my memory is the two words he said to Irving-"They come to the hotel at night to do some dirty things, and then in the morning, it becomes our job to make everything beautiful." Do you think that if you don’t take the money, you are innocent? Take it and do something good with it." There is also a detail. When he got out of the car for the first time, he saw the rubbish falling beside the trash can. He frowned, stepped forward to pick up the trash, and then said to the person next to him, "Hey, stop smoking, come and deal with this!"
I think the character that the director created is not only something we hate. He is not a simple negative role, perhaps, he is from another aspect to remind us of the truth of life.
Senay and Juliette.
A virgin, a prostitute. Such an arrangement can't help but make people astounded. The two women have different identities, but they live in the same environment.
The director arranged for their respective struggles.
Senay took Owen to live in his own home, but always kept a careful distance from him. Even when he returned home, he had to enter the house by himself and wait five minutes before letting Owen knock on the door. She developed love during her relationship with Irving, but it was this love that made Senay despair again and again, because she couldn't get a response, because she couldn't get a response. She transferred to a garment factory to work, but was insulted by her boss; in order to get rid of the status of an illegal immigrant, she decided to sell her kidney to Snicky, and reluctantly accepted Snicky's insult.
Juliette is a prostitute who loves to laugh. She converts all the misery that life has imposed on her into a joke to receive. She can tell Owen with ridiculous expectations: "The client let me walk on the credit card today, but fortunately I don't have to stand at work." She is equally kind and helpful. She will help Owen time and time again. Everything she can do. Juliette has her own dignity. When she received the harassment from the rascal, she did not hesitate to take out the spray and spray it into the rascal's eyes and punch him severely. Every time she plays, she will be impressive.
The concept of virgins and prostitutes has become blurred under the careful arrangement of the director. You can forget the difference between them, because what you see is more of what they have in common. They want to live, they are living.
3. About this dirty and sweet thing.
We see the embarrassment of illegal immigrants living in the cracks of the city, in the simplest but unignorable way. They don't want to go to the hospital even if their lives are dying. They lie on the operating table and are slaughtered. They shuttle in the corners of the city to avoid the police. We see the helplessness, sadness, and even despair in their eyes.
Irving will not be better than any of them. He is busy at work and avoids the pursuit of the police. He returns to the residence in the early morning but still can't sleep. He put the card with the New York pattern on the cabinet-it was the home he wanted to go back to. There is no way to forget, there is no way to ignore this dream in his heart, but he also knows the difference between reality and dream. How far is the distance, what we see when the camera hits his face is close to numb helplessness, and tiredness.
The brightly colored decorations in high-end hotels, the crowds coming and going, and all sorts of ulterior transactions submerged in the dark-sweet and dirty things, this is what the film critics want to tell us. Their state of existence is so repressed and alive.
Some people say: It is the soul that dominates us and makes us different. Therefore, there is no need to care about whether you will be lost. Unless the soul is gone, don’t be afraid that you will lose anything, even innocence and self-esteem. Once in the past, as soon as tomorrow comes, as long as the soul is still there, then a new life will always begin, and no one will ask about your past.
I think I agree with this passage. So at the end of the film, when I heard Irving say the phrase "HELLO, YES IT'S ME.AT LAST, I'M COMING HOME." I would smile knowingly. The director and screenwriter are clever, they designed one The dramatic ending tells us that the past will eventually pass. All we have to do is to face the future bravely.
The rhythm of the film is always in the right place, there is no delay from beginning to end, and there is no cold spot. The ingenious arrangement of the script allows the people watching the film to always enter the film and move forward with the protagonists. The calm lens reveals a warm tone, but the seemingly plain language is filled with blood.
The dialogues of the characters in the play are always designed very precisely. They will tell you what the director wants to express, but they are not too straightforward. There are not so many cryptic words, but in a simple and elegant way. Said all that.
After watching the film, you may feel this way. The director is not only concerned about the special group of illegal immigrants, but also expresses a kind of care and concern for the living conditions of all mankind through such a group of people who are drifting on the edge of life. explore.
You see how Irving and Senay managed to survive all this desperately. At the end of the day, they, them, and us finally reached the other side.
To be yourself, you must first be without yourself.
The director was sitting behind the screen and smiling at us.
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