Putting the text in perspective

Here is som help to putting “Long nights, low pay and no play” by Burhan Wazir into perspective and give you some useful suggestions on a comparison of the text with the movie “Dirty Pretty Things” and the painting “Woman Seated in the Underground”. First, we will briefly present the picture and the movie.

“Dirty Pretty Things”

“Dirty Pretty Things” was directed by Stephen Frears and released in 2002. The movie deals with the lives of two immigrants in London, Okwe and Senay. Okwe used to be a doctor in Nigeria, but is now a cab driver. Senay is a Muslim woman and works clandestinely in a hotel.
Okwe soon discovers the hotel owner is harvesting human organs illegally. After several adventures, the two manage to escape the illegal organ trafficker.

“Woman Seated in the Underground”

Woman Seated in the Underground is a crayon painting on paper created by Henry Moore in 1941. The woman has no distinctive facial features and it is not clear whether she has hair or not. She is sitting alone, with her arms in her lap and she is wearing a medium-length coat or dress. In the background, other indistinctive people are sitting in the round shaped underground.

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Scene from “Dirty Pretty Things”

In your textbook, you are asked to explain and relate a scene from the movie to the article.

In “Dirty Pretty Things”, one character turns to the Nigerian taxi driver and hotel desk clerk Okwe and asks, “How come I have never seen you before?” - “Because we are the people you never see,” he replies. Both the question and the answer indicate that immigrants are usually invisible to locals. 

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"Woman Seated in the Underground”.

Here, you are asked to discuss the connection between the painting and the text. Both the painting and the text are about anonymity. While the text is about the anonymous lives of refugees and illegal immigrants, the painting is about anonymity in general, in society.

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