Review of Pleasantville (1998) by Luna123 — 26 Feb 2015

Reading the story of Adam and Eve gives you a sense of living with parents who are very strict and do not let you do anything at all, you always have to follow the rules and if you mess up you have to deal with the consequences. In the movie Pleasantville you get the sense of going on a vacation to somewhere where you have never been, you are kind of doubtful about it but then you get used to it and start to like more and more then that’s when the bad part comes when you have to leave and go home. Which one sounds better? Obviously right away you would think Pleasantville read and see if you’re right or wrong.

There are many things that are similar between the movie and story. In the book and in the movie the main characters are told not to do certain things like in the story of Adam and Eve god tells Adam to not eat from a specific tree, and in the movie David tells Jenifer to not change anything while they are in Pleasantville. In both cases they both do the opposite of what they are told and they both have to face the consequences. In both the story and movie they have someone telling them what to do. In the movie Pleasantville the character that is telling David and Jenifer what to do is the T.V. repair man, and in the story the person that is telling Adam and Eve what to do is god. The book and movie both have a common factor with the female characters, in both situations both women are the ones to break the rules and be rebellious.

There things that are not alike at all in the movie Adam and Eve and the movie Pleasantville. A difference between them is that in the movie they are forced into a community filled with other people. In the story Adam and Eve are created by god and sent to live in Eden alone. The person who is giving out they rules the characters are supposed to follow in the movie is the brother David and in the book it is good who is telling Adam what to do. There are many rebellious things that David and Jenifer could do that could abrupt things in Pleasantville but there is only one thing that could go wrong in the story.

The movie and the book both had similarities and differences but overall they both were good. The director could have done many things different to make the movie more relatable to the story. The T.V. repair man could have been a more god like character being more strict and clear about what he wanted David and Jenifer to do while they were in Pleasantville. I feel like more of the setting could have been more similar. I also think that the director should have followed the plot of the story of Adam and Eve more, like in the end of the movie David and Jenifer get to fix their problems and do what they want though they have to face there consequences they are resolved in the end but in the story Adam and Eve do not get to make their wrong right they don’t get to go back to the way things were. The director made many similarities to the story but not many of them were obvious enough to know that the movie is based on the story.

The movie Pleasantville and the story of Adam and Eve show many examples of life lesson that you can relate to. They both show what it’s like to make mistakes and have to face the consequences and they both have different outcome. Though they don’t have the same ending they both have the same goal, they both want to teach the audience the same lesson. I think that both have goods themes and lesson but I agree more with the story of Adam and Eve because of the fact that in real life you cannot take back some of the mistakes you have made and you have to live with them for the rest of your life and you are not always able to fix your problems like in Pleasantville.