The concept of changing perspectives in the text "Pleasantville- is explored through the use of colours and the technique of comparison. The director, Gary Ross, has employed the use of black and white and colour in order to emphasis the character's changing perspectives. He has also used the technique of comparing Pleasantville with today's America to highlight these changes further.
Pleasantville is set in the 1950's when wives stayed at home to serve their husbands dinner every night, when holding hands on lover's lane was the height of sexual adventure, and when people kept with their own kind in insulated communities. However when the people of Pleasantville are visited by two kids from the real world their lives begin to change in strange and wonderful ways that none of them had even dared to dream of.
When Jennifer brings her Nineties-like attitude into this unsuspecting era of blandness people begin to see certain things in a different perspective. The first concept she introduces to this nave community is sex. When Skip, the schools basketball hero, asks Jennifer/Mary-Sue to go out with him, he unexpectedly finds himself down in Lovers lane with no idea what has just hit him! David is so at Jennifer, "You can't do this Jennifer! He doesn't exist! You can't do this to someone who doesn't exist!-.
After this experiences Skip naturally finds his perspectives on holding hands at Lovers lane- change a little, or rather change immensely. The next day at school Skip tells the rest of the basketball team all about what happened to him last night. The coach comes in, blows his whistle and ten shots go up but no one even comes close to getting it in the hoop. That night down at Lovers lane the camera starts its long, slow track behind the vehicles, except this time ALL OF THEM ARE ROCKING. Various limbs and articles of clothing are hanging out the windows! The innocent teenagers of Pleasantville have just been introduced to sex and they aren't so innocent anymore.