Dirty Pretty Things: Difference between revisions

* [[Fake Nationality]]: The Nigerian Okwe and Chinese Guo Yi are both played by British actors, though Ejiofor is Nigerian-British and Wong Chinese-British. The Turkish Senay is played by the French Audrey Tautou, and the Russian Ivan by Croatian Zlatko Buric. In story, acquiring a [[Fake Nationality]] becomes a major goal of both Okwe and Senay, as well as many other immigrants in their situation. {{spoiler|Both of them succeed}}.

* [[Fake Russian]]: Croatian-born Zlatko Buric as Ivan.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Juan picks it up in a big way when he {{spoiler|believes that the beer Okwe gives him before the operation on Senay is to steady his nerves and drinks it}}.

* [[Innocent Cohabitation]]: Okwe and Senay; Senay works very hard to make sure nobody will even think it's not so.

* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] with Senay, who because she comes from a conservative Muslim background is very sensitive about the possibility of anyone perceiving anything untoward going on between her and Okwe. {{spoiler|She ends up losing her virginity in about the most awful way possible.}}

* [[Organ Theft]]: {{spoiler|Not so much theft as forced trade, as Juan runs a lucrative operation illegally harvesting kidneys from illegal immigrants in exchange for fake passports that will give them legal status. Later, however, it's played straight in about the awesomest way possible when Okwe and Senay outwit Juan and steal ''his'' kidney after receiving new identities from him}}.

* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: This is how {{spoiler|Okwe and Senay}} knock out {{spoiler|Juan}} before {{spoiler|taking his kidney}}.

* [[Title Drop]]: Indirectly; the title references a remark Juan makes to Okwe, which is that is the job of people like themselves to make pretty again the things which their customers get dirty.