Romantic Comedy

The Romantic comedy “10” could be considered a trendsetter. The film has a sexual ideology of how sex in the 80’s may have been perceived. The main character George Webber a married man is seen as an escapist, who has reached a midlife crisis and searches for sexual exploration. He becomes interested in younger women and stumbles into a young beauty that is soon on her way to be wedded. The comedy here soon develops as George falls in love with this woman and follows the couple to their honeymoon in Mexico. In Mexico George saves the woman’s husband life and becomes a hero. The husband out of the picture due to his sunburn injuries the two are then off into an evening of escapade. After a long night Georges wish of having sex woman finally comes true, but only to be disappointed by her confounding behavior in bed. George then returns back home to his true love.

This film is contemporary to its time and that’s where its success has derived from. The characters are all sexually contemporary as well; especially the young girl. She is who is most explored as we can describe her as a casual, sexual hippie. She may also be considered as a symbol of that time and age. Georges character is what makes the entire film comical. Georges imagination gets the best of him, as he seeks for a perfect woman. George stumbles into this young beautiful woman who he then follows to her wedding then to her honeymoon. Throughout this, we see George as a hopeful towards love. In reality this act would considered immoral, however we fall for this character and maybe because we have all been there and have had escapades of finding or thinking the IDEAL girl/boy is out there. As George finally has sex with this young girl the plot is developed. George realizes that he has made a mistake and the perfect 10 wasn’t whom he throughout it would be. Georges sexual realization is now settled, he then heads home as he attempts to rekindle his true love.