Review of Pleasantville (1998) by Ninjaboy596 — 26 Feb 2015

Pleasantville is a movie about two teenage twins named David and Jennifer who get sucked into a 50’s TV show called Pleasantville. The two messes up the people of Pleasantville’s world and it starts to go into color. They may have not fixed the world but they got the people to be able to live with it. One thing that I noticed is that Pleasantville has similarities and differences to the story of Adam and Eve. One thing is that a lot of other films haves its similarities too. A lot of people are talking about how the director is pulling a lot from the story. That may be the case but it’s a short story and it can be easily get taken from without meaning too.

. A similarity is the scene with David and his date in lover’s lane. In the scene David’s girlfriend ran to a tree, took an apple off of it, took a bite, and feed it to her boyfriend. Still not convinced? Here is another one for you. Both stories brought huge changes to the world. Only good was seen in both stories but evil and bad things soon appear because Adam and Eve bite the apple and Jennifer started sleeping with a basketball and he started telling his friends about it while David without meaning too made changes by some of the things he said.

While it has its similarities it also has its differences. One big one is that Pleasantville had more than four characters in the story. Another is that Pleasantville takes place in a town and not a garden. The main characters are brother and sister while Adam and Eve are lovers. God in Pleasantville was an old repairman who forgives David and Jennifer while God in Adam and Eve got angry with them and banished them from the Garden of Eden.

I felt that Pleasantville had similarities to Adam and Eve but any story really has similarities too it. It’s a common story and its only two pages long (depending where you read it)! I’m not going to say if the director did well following the story or not since any story can have its own similarities too it without meaning to and I’m not saying it was bad for not having the exact details in it. The story doesn't have a lot it in so other books or movies can have similarities to it. The movie was good but I’m not gonna go compare it to how good Adam and Eve was since I could easily pull out any other movie and go find similarities too it.