Many men think they can rescue a prostitute from her misery only if they are loving and true to her. But it doesn't work like that. Men are usually used and hurt; their innocent love doesn't work. The romantic factor is the reason. Men cannot think straight because they are emotionally involved.
On the other hand, women's organizations that try to help prostitutes get away from prostitution seem to be more effective.
Pretty Woman had an alternative ending, where Julia Roberts returns to prostitution, but the audience at the test screening didn't like it, so they changed the ending. Think about it. Will a millionnaire really go for a street walker?
Your comment isn't even about this movie. This young man was trying to force this woman to love him, thinking (old school) that he's a man and because he wants to marry her, she should just do as he says. Further, he's that creepy type who thinks he has the right to control a woman just because he's dated her a few times, ignoring her pleas otherwise.
He's afraid of losing her, he feels she's becoming more and more distant and she's keeping something from him. She's out every night and either has elusive and vague excuses to offer or completely evades the question. To make matters worse, this co-worker just showed him a picture of his girlfriend offering an escort service. He puts 2 and 2 together and that's when he gets more obsessive (forcing her to count the tiles on the bathroom floor to find out the truth).
I'm not justifying hi actions of course, but the movie works as marvelously as it does because it manages to show real human beings and not just stereotypes. So, no, he isn't just some creep and is most definitely not forcing her to love him. There's no love in the film, just some sort of illusion, an idea. I don't think no one is really "in love" (not Akiko, not her boyfriend, not Takashi, and not Takashi's neighbor), hence the title.
She was a liar. Why not blame her first? She could have just said she was a prostitute or she does not want to date him any more or lie again and say she met someone else. Instead she strung him along with lies and got angry that he was suspicious of her feeble lies and angry at her betrayal. Lying is wrong. Period.
dude it is extremely ignorant too assume all prostitutes need saving. If you actually look into sex worker run organizations you'll realize they're pretty good at speaking for themselves.
Nobody should have to be a prostitute because we should have a guaranteed basic income as various economists, futurists, social criticis, and activists have proposed. See Martin Luther King's last book or read Buckminster Fuller, Jk Galbraith, even Thomas Paine. Everyone needs saving. We have to save each other from oppressing and degrading wage slavery. We are all victims except the guy at the top of the hierarchy - every person below suffers more health problems and stress due to inequality, this has been proven and it is not a neutral issue you can dismiss by saying that the sex workers who run themselves claim to be happy. It is a rotten system where one side has more power.
Only people secure in their basic needs are free. The rest have to submit to various forms of degradation to survive and that is sick and evil, twisted and immoral.