Dirty, Pretty, Things

I start to question the motives of many of the characters for why they do things. I do this because they are all doing what they are to invest in positive change for their future, and many even their families also. Why would Okwe do the amount of jobs he is doing, while other illegals do less and clearly can still survive? I start to question to what purpose he wants to amass the money that he does, does he owe people money, is he saving his money for something? It shows how each illegal has different motivations for what they are doing and why. This ties into the article that we read in class, where the declaration essays the refugee’s are forced to write are discussed. This is because it stresses the individuality of each of the many different refugee cases. That those cases cannot be grouped together. It comes to represent the individuality of each persons problems, and therefore the need to accomodate to each individual, rather than a group. Furthermore one thing that is inadvertidly shown is how lucrative it is to hire illegal aliens. This is clear as it shows how they do the jobs that nobody else wants to do, and nobody else can afford to do. It truly shows that how in a world that is not willing to help them, they will contribute in to its destruction with their contributions to crime and illegality.

It is then that i start to question if these type of underworlds are present in every large city? Does each city have a dark web of underground illegal activities? This really demonstrates to what degree we are living in a superficial world, where we pretend we live a life external to these problems that are existing around us. This is just a sign also of how deep the problems in our world have arisen as people are going to extremities like the characters of the movie to survive and create a better future for themselves.

I feel that again this film explores a certain grey zone, like all the previous books and films discussed in the class prior. This comes to demonstrate that nothing is really what it seems to be, and that there is always more depth to a certain situation than may perhaps appear. In this movie the people themselves are a grey zone just by the nature of their presence within the country, and that again speaks to the many different problems that they face, that we cannot relate to. This is because we do not share the same world, nor is their world one we can easily conceive and understand due to our background.

 

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