This is a review of a movie, Pretty Woman, from 1990 with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Most girls of my generation have seen this movie over and over again, because it is soooo romantic! It’s a contemporary Cinderella-story about a wealthy businessman and a prostitute who fall in love.
However, when I look at this beautiful love story with more critical eyes, I can see that it is full of prejudice ideas and values. Let me give you a few examples.
Vivian Ward is a pretty but poor young girl, living in Los Angeles. She has no other way of paying her rent but to sell her body. However, she is not like the other prostitutes on the street, who take drugs and get beaten up. She has charm, although she has to mend her boots with a safety pin. …show more content…
She, who would have been grateful for an opportunity to earn money for rent just a few days before, now feels deeply offended. When Edward finds out he punches him in the face and kicks him out. Defender of his lady, the knight in shining armor!
The characters develop throughout the movie. Vivian puts on expensive clothes, learns how to behave in her new elegant context and gains a new self-confidence. Edward learns to value other things in life and falls in love. He wants to set Vivian up in an apartment and support her financially. When she turns him down, he follows her, like a Prince Charming on a white horse (which is really a white car) and they end up happily ever after.
The moral of the story is that if you are a young and pretty girl, a handsome man will fall in love with you. You may be disguised as a prostitute, but as soon as everyone sees your good heart, they will treat you like the fairytale princess you were all along.
If you happen to be an extremely wealthy man you can buy love without any moral implications. If, however, you are not the hero of the story, you will be kicked out and treated like a real brute for even thinking about
However, when I look at this beautiful love story with more critical eyes, I can see that it is full of prejudice ideas and values. Let me give you a few examples.
Vivian Ward is a pretty but poor young girl, living in Los Angeles. She has no other way of paying her rent but to sell her body. However, she is not like the other prostitutes on the street, who take drugs and get beaten up. She has charm, although she has to mend her boots with a safety pin. …show more content…
She, who would have been grateful for an opportunity to earn money for rent just a few days before, now feels deeply offended. When Edward finds out he punches him in the face and kicks him out. Defender of his lady, the knight in shining armor!
The characters develop throughout the movie. Vivian puts on expensive clothes, learns how to behave in her new elegant context and gains a new self-confidence. Edward learns to value other things in life and falls in love. He wants to set Vivian up in an apartment and support her financially. When she turns him down, he follows her, like a Prince Charming on a white horse (which is really a white car) and they end up happily ever after.
The moral of the story is that if you are a young and pretty girl, a handsome man will fall in love with you. You may be disguised as a prostitute, but as soon as everyone sees your good heart, they will treat you like the fairytale princess you were all along.
If you happen to be an extremely wealthy man you can buy love without any moral implications. If, however, you are not the hero of the story, you will be kicked out and treated like a real brute for even thinking about