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(thing) by mrichich (1 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Fri Jun 30 2000 at 0:39:38

Movie starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, and William H. Macy. It's about two '90s teenagers who are sucked into their TV and placed in a '50s Leave It To Beaver-esque sitcom, where the books are blank, everyone is in black and white, there's no sex, and the fire department only rescues cats.

The modern kids' influence causes colors to start appearing in the landscape and words to appear in the books, which causes a bit of a moral and spiritual crisis in Pleasantville. Also, the denizens of the town start exploring the sexual part of themselves.

It's a very fun movie, with good acting and directing, and the special effects are also very well done and not as intrusive as they could be.

The powerful moral message? Don't play with yourself or else your trees will catch fire.


(idea) by silent_remorse (5.9 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Dec 29 2001 at 8:47:42

Pleasantville also explores a number of various issues surrounding the attitudes towards sex, relationships, sexism and racism in the mid 50's. Using the modern influence of the two teenagers, it shows how the development of age, maturity and social ethics allowed the small town to embrace what it had originally been withholding, rather then to continue to hide/fear it. For example, when the colours start appearing, the "coloured" people are rejected and forced away with violence and hatred. Eventually, they see the uselessness of their anger as they, also, become "coloured".

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