It's a free world

IT’S A FREE WORLD

Inma Montalbán Luque
2º Estudios Ingleses
Identidad Cultural Anglo-NorteAmericana y Estudios Culturales
The film is situated in London, England, and is centred in Angie’s life. Angie is a thirty three years old woman who works in a recruitment Enterprise giving temporal job to the immigrants who want to go to London to have a better life than they have in their countries.In spite of getting lots of clients to her job, their bosses dismiss her. She feels that she has not been valued in the more of thirty jobs where she has worked during all her life, and she decides to create her own business with her flat mate, Rose. Angie starts using her women’s weapons to achieve clients. At first, they get the immigrants in a courtyard and take them to the jobs in vans. Theydo not accept any immigrant without legal documents. Little by little, bad situations come to Angie and Rose, who decide not to pay the taxes of the government and start hiring illegal immigrants because of the few benefits that the business gives them and overcoat the problems with the payment from one of their clients. The last fact will make Angie and Rose live difficult and dangeroussituations where Angie’s son will also be involved.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT
The film takes place in the modern London, in England, where there are established legal immigrants from any place of west Europe (Poland, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, etc.) and illegal immigrants from everywhere (Iraq, Iran, Chile, etc.). Poland was governed by Kaczynski brothers from 2005 to 2007; they represented the extremeright-winger, supported the death penalty and were declared homophobic themselves. Because of the power of these men, people who were against their ideals decided to look for a new life far from Poland and most of them chose London. Another reason why people from Poland decide to go to London in the searching of a new better life is, because of the expansion of the Europe Union. Polishes see London asthe opportunity of having a high quality of life. They are from a poor country where there are very little job and money, they do not have enough resources but with the incorporation of Poland and the other West Europe countries in the European Union, people from those countries had more doors opened.

In the film we can know, because of the testimony of some immigrants, that they love theircountry and they want to return there. But staying there they could not have a good life without poverty, they prefer to spend some years far from their home and family, working hard and earning money, and then return having enough resources to have a full life.
Karol, an immigrant from Poland, thanks Angie ironically, because the enterprise, where she worked before, was which sent him to London, toa bad work in an uncomfortable transport and to the worst accommodation. In his tone, we can appreciate that he is very angry with the result of what he thought would be a great experience to earn money to return to his country and to live happy for the rest of his life. He also says that what the enterprise promised is not the reality, he thinks they are deceived.
Another immigrant, this timefrom Iran, tells his story which involved all his family. The situation in Iran was critical in 2007, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the President of the Islamic republic of Iran, and he has been criticized for his economic lapses and disregard for human rights. Iran was included in a black list by the President of the United States, George W. Busch, because he thought that it is a country which supportsthe terrorism. And some executions of children are known in this time. The immigrant of the film explain that he is from a family of booksellers, his father was killed accused of selling prohibited books, and the same situation happened to him but in this case the police only arrested him and beat him up. Then his family and him escaped from the country and asked for political asylum but it was...