Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman opens by contrasting the two groups of people that each main character belongs to. Edward is a wealthy man who buys businesses that are in trouble and then sells them in pieces to other companies. Vivian is a prostitute who lives in an apartment with her friend who is also a prostitute. Vivian cannot pay the rent because her roommate used some of their money to buy drugs. While they are on the street Edward pulls over because he is lost and Vivian gets in the care to show him how to get home personally. He is going to just let her go and work out getting back on her own, but then decides to hire her for the night, but not for prostitution. In the morning he decides to hire her as an escort for the week he is in town. She is not used to his lifestyle and makes mistakes, like not knowing when to use the correct fork at dinner. The money she asks from him seems like a huge amount to her and she even tells him that he could probably not afford it; she doesn’t realize that to him money is not at all an issue. He even gives her his credit card to buy nicer clothes. She is treated poorly by the people who work in the nice stores on Rodeo Drive because of her appearance.
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Vivian manages to mesmerize most of the members of Edward’s upper class world. She even manages to mesmerize Edward, but she wants love from him, not just the occasional paid get together when he is in town. Vivian is treated very badly by Edward’s lawyer and friend when he finds out that she is a prostitute. However, Edward gets really mad at him for this and not treating her right. In the end, Edward realizes that he has fallen for Vivian. She has already decided that she is moving and does not want to be a prostitute anymore when he comes driving up to her apartment. This was the movie that I watched that dealt the least with poverty, but it did show the differences in the worlds of the rich and those of the poor.