Dispite the difficulties the characters in Pleasantville are better off for experiencing change in their lives. Discuss.
In the film, Pleasantville, all characters experience change -- not progress, which suggests all change is for the better, all innovation immediately positive. Indeed, along with sex, art, and literature, characters experience difficulties like prejudice and rioting. While David experiences initial insecurity he develops into a self-confident leader, and while Jennifer suffers initial rebellion, she matures into an intelligent and meaningful woman. The film most definitely takes the side of those people who in spite of difficulties work to embrace change or at the least to accept it and face it unafraid. Pleasantville opens by pointing out many negatives in our current world -- but soon enough hints that there are problems if the fantasies we use to escape are too unreal. In the end, the best world seems to be one that balances both our supposed ideals and the real world. .
Dispite David's initial resistance to change, David is better off for experiencing change in his life. David changes from a socially inept individual through his own insecurity and inner belief to the self-confident and reassuring leader at the end of the film. In David's first appearance, he timidly asks out a girl who is standing far too far away to hear him. David's social dismay has evidently lead to his search for comfort, predictability and security -- Pleasantville. Soon after David is seen watching the sitcom Pleasantville where he proceeds to quote what the characters on the show say prior to them saying it. David is obviously attracted to Pleasantville's predictability and comforts both contrasts to his current social and home environments. After being cast into Pleasantville David, a rabid fan of the sitcom, is first reluctant to change anything in this new world. David proceeds to argue with Mary-sue/Jennifer that you cannot change the Pleasantville world, the citizens don't know how to deal with it.
Pleasantville was sexist, like the real 50's because the power structure of Pleasantville was male and women were confined to the traditional realm of the home. ... Pleasantville was sexually repressive also. ... There was no freedom of thought in Pleasantville. ... School did not serve a purpose for the teenagers of Pleasantville. ... Pleasantville was racist. ...
"Pleasantville" is the film directed by Gary Ross, outlines the lives of two teenagers, David and Jennifer. For David, an ideal world of Pleasantville, a 1950s TV soapie, is an escape from the harsh reality of his less-than perfect life, where he is nobody. This film is set in America in the 50s and is told through the perspective of the central character. This personalized the story and will relate to the audience through the character. ... At first, Bud tries very hard to save Pleasantville in its original forms, however he soon starts to see that things in Pleasantville are not as good...
The director, Gary Ross, has employed the use of black and white and colour in order to emphasis the character's changing perspectives. ... Throughout the movie we see many characters ripen as the people grow and their own perspectives begin to emerge. ... Like all movies Pleasantville is not just made to entertain. ... This is what the director of Pleasantville wants us to see. ... Through the technique of comparing modern day America to the 1950's, Ross has not only shown us the characters changed perspectives, but has also aimed at changing our perspectives. ...
11-5-02 Pleasantville: Gender Roles and Humanism Projected in a black and white 50's sitcom, Pleasantville portrays the parable of a totalitarian society inflicted by racial discrimination. ... Soon every young couple in Pleasantville is making out in the backseat at Lover's Lane. ... Pleasantville enraptures a similar movement for society as a whole. ... Reflecting a tendency in Hollywood productions and literary fiction to continue to circle the framework of "the Fall," Pleasantville examines critically our current state of "corruption." ... Using women's historical e...
In the TV land of Pleasantville, everything is what it seems. ... Never was there a situation that the people of Pleasantville hadn't encountered, much less weren't able to deal with. ... Pleasantville was full of constraints. ... To the people of Pleasantville, there was no world outside its borders. ... They realized that there may be more out there than what Pleasantville had to offer. ...
In Pleasantville Bud and Mary Sue changed the Pleasantville world forever as well. ... This change was good for the community because it led to more freedom and character in individuals. ... This is exactly what happened to Pleasantville. ... In a way, Pleasantville resembled our world and lives. ... Pleasantville. ...
PLEASANTVILLE The movie was about a brother and sister from the 90's who get zapped into the 50's television show Pleasantville where everything is perfect and nothing ever goes wrong. ... Before the two teenagers arrived, the people of Pleasantville had never heard of sex. ... Well, she took care of that and before you knew it sex and masturbation was taking Pleasantville by storm. ... Before she read the book, all of the books in Pleasantville were blank. ... In conclusion, the movie Pleasantville, as ridiculous as it was, demonstrated a functionalist point of view. ...
In Pleasantville, writer and director Gary Ross introduces us to his outspoken point-of-view about the direction in which North American culture is heading. ... Pleasantville is a journey of overcoming fear. "Let the real you out," said David, the main character, to the mayor of Pleasantville. ... In Pleasantville, the world literally ends at the city limits. Space twists back upon itself in Pleasantville, and "the end of Main Street is just the beginning again." ...
Pleasantville in Technicolor In the 1998 film Pleasantville, written and directed by Gary Ross, there are many themes that presented to the audience. ... The racism of the black and white characters becomes obvious and it is not until the strong characters in this position, like Whitey, change themselves. ... Mary Sue goes off to a college in the Pleasantville time, but she still remains a female character of the time in her poodle skirt and agreeable attitude. ... Also, the attitudes of the characters make the distinction even easier. ... The eye is drawn to the characters in color and ...
