Ashanti Sosa December 7, 2014 Film Review #2 Anthropology Pretty Baby Pretty Baby takes place in the red light district as it is called in New Orleans. This whore house which is a fancy one is run by a drug addicted by the name of Madame Nell. There is one prostitute by the name of Hattie who gives birth to a baby boy and has a 12 year old daughter name Violet who both live in the house that Hattie works at and lives in. The main character of the movie is Violet a 12 year old, during the film Violet gets sold off to a man who plans on deflowering her. Violet is your average 12 year old who enjoys listening to ragtime music as they called it back then and playing with the horses and riding them. Violets mother has intentions of …show more content…
Psychosexual development is another term I would use because I feel as though Violet grow up to fast with sexual behavior, the fact that she is living in a whore house shows that she would have to grow up real fast. The fact that movie revolves around a Brothel house has to do with the term enthocentlrism because having Violet being raised around this lifestyle is showing her that this life is the correct way of living and I don’t feel that a 12 year girl at that should feel that prostitution is right. Another term that is used is Fetish here we have a bunch of men coming to this house to get sexual pleasure, and some of these men are daily customers which shows a sign of obsessive attraction to these ladies. Last but not least Lascivious is a term that was used with the connection between Violet and Belloqc, you see Violet indicated that she had some sexy interest in Belloqc by saying you can take care of me and saying she loved him and that she would be real good to him. Violet let it be known that she wanted a relationship with this older man, and she didn 't see anything wrong with