Dirty Pretty Things

Everyone should now have seen both Trainspotting and Dirty Pretty Things, the film texts you will use to answer the 'Borders and Belonging' part of the exam. As I said in class Trainspotting is more explicitly to do with the borders part of the unit and Dirty Pretty Things examines aspects of a sense of belonging to an idea of Britishness. However, they could both be use used to analyse and consider both the idea of national identity and borders and how film looks at outsiders in our country and nation. Tonight there is a programme on BBC1 at 8.30 which directly looks at illegal immigrants and their place in the workforce. It deals with some of the ideas we are considering in our unit and so will be helpful in your own understanding of the concepts and theory.