Pretty Moon is a romantic film directed by Gary Marshall and starring Richard Kiel and Julia Roberts, released in the United States on March 23, 1990.
The film tells the story of Edward, a wealthy businessman with a dashing appearance, who goes to Los Angeles to talk about a business, and he meets Vivian, a prostitute, because he is lost, and hires Vivian as a female companion who attends a week-long social event.
The film "Pretty Lady of the Wind and Moon" resonates with the hearts of moviegoers with a typical Cinderella beautiful ending, and also arouses the desire for this love in every woman's heart, but there is also a profound meaning behind the movie. This is not a simple story of Cinderella and Prince Charming, nor is it a general fairy tale, but a true portrayal of the social context of the time.
The film is different from previous Cinderella films, erasing the idea that men will redeem women and advocating equal and free relationships between men and women. Vivian in the film, although she is a low-level woman who sells herself to survive, but also has a personality charm and shining point that cannot be ignored, she is poor but still has her own dignity, her simple and free life is what the busy Edward Lewis yearns for, at the beginning of the relationship, Edward was touched by her directness, under the influence of Vivian, he tried to take off the shoes on his feet and touch the grass barefoot, he found that all his troubles disappeared at this moment.
To a certain extent, the film also reflects the difference between Eastern and Western cultures: in the 1930s and 1940s, American women were guaranteed a certain degree of rights, advocating equality between men and women, and the women of that era were already independent; while women in the East were mostly passive and waiting. If Vivian's identity had been placed in China at that time, she would have been defined as a "prostitute" or would never have been able to get rid of this identity. And in the era at that time, it was still constrained by some rules, and personal freedom was also restricted. These are all due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures and bring about different feelings and influences.
At the end of the film, Edward and Vivian are together like the ending of a fairy tale, although it is very catered to the taste of the public, and in real life, this kind of cross-class love is very rare, the greater the class difference between the two people, the greater the difference in cognition of various things, so it is difficult to live together, the ending of the movie seems to be beautiful, in fact, it also leaves us with thinking, as the beginning of the film said, "Hollywood is the land of dreams", the end of the movie "Continue to dream" is also the echo of the beginning of the film. At the end of the film, Edward's successful marriage proposal to Vivian may be the contrast under the director's lens, or maybe this is another meaning of "Dream", the picture in the dream?
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > no matter how the ending is defined, but independent and hard-working people will always get their wishes, Vivian although born at the bottom, but she is not unearned, she is independent, brave, and actively pursue everything, like people and things are chased, rather than sitting in place and waiting. </h1>