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

Movie Review.

Pleasantville is actually based off a true story in the bible known as Adam and Eve. Pleasantville and Adam and Eve have pretty much the same concept except there are many similarities and differences. The movie Pleasantville is about siblings who are David and Jennifer getting stuck into a TV Show but in the TV Show A.K.A Pleasantville is pretty much where everything is perfect and nobody ever really breaks the rules but it’s hard for Jennifer because in the real world she is a rebel and never really follows the rules. David is the type to follow the rules also because he’s watched every episode there has been so he knows everything to know about it but as he keeps living there he tends to break the rules and traditions without really even noticing it and a lot of things change when Jennifer and David get there.

Differences.

There are many differences in the story Adam and Eve and the movie Pleasantville such as in the movie there are a lot of more people and in Adam and Eve there is only 2 people also the movie is way more recent then Adam and eve. The changing is also very different because in Adam and Eve they are sinning but in Pleasantville they’re just changing and technically there is nothing wrong with that.

Similarities.

There are many Similarities in the movie Pleasantville and in Adam and Eve such as they’re both put up to a challenge and they both fail also because they both in a way have a concept in god that keeps telling them things not to do but they ended up doing them anyway by doing the things they’re not supposed to the way they see things changed like in Pleasantville they see color and in Adam and Eve they see each other naked so the way they continue to live their lives changed.

Critique.

I think the writers of Pleasantville did a good job at making it compare to the Adam and Eve story in the bible they both ended up having the same message but not really in the same way but I could see how in a way they both had to do something with god also how once they did something they weren’t supposed to do it opened up there eyes but after all of it I think they both had good concepts and messages in them.

Conclusion.

Over all I think they both had a lot of similarities and differences that both told different messages but they were life learning messages such as sometimes change is a good thing or change could be a really bad thing.