Review of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) by Duane D — 06 Jan 2011

This movie, in a funny, classy way, totally changed some of the main views of people during this time period. Most expectations during the sixties were of good housewives that stayed home and tryed to make their husband happy and the man was pictured as a good working class man.

During this time money was considered important to live happily and their family was pretty much all a person had and needed. In Breakfast at Tiffany's, there were two new kinds of woman shown. Audrey Hepburn's role as Holly changed views of modern women by not being a regular housewife, not following the social guidelines, and even sort of being a prostitute in a way.

The common housewife, or 2E, was an angry lady who was bitter and spent money on a different guy while her husband was away. This alone was a huge culture shock during this time. However, the movie also introduced other new ideas such as pets as a part of the family instead of just being an accessory, past not affecting who we are today, and doing some crazy but nonharmful things for fun like shoplifting and scaling buildings to other peoples windows.

This was a twist on the normal love story with a girl who is always running away and just wants to marry for money finally coming to her senses in the last scene. Overall this movie was a surprising movie and a rather good one however I feel that the portrayal of an Asian American by a Caucasian did not help this movie, but rather harm it a little.

Other than that though it is a great movie and one of the classics many people would enjoy.