Review of Pleasantville (1998) by David J — 18 May 2016

This retro comedy is pleasant to look at and oftentimes very funny, but "Pleasantville" is also a film with an, although interesting, very confused concept. Ross could be trying to convey several themes here, but the majority of them tend to go back on themselves.

This whole movie is a paradox, one that clumsily promotes progressive ideas and tries to state that conservative values lead to a lack of individuality and, even worse, fascism... as I said, a paradox.

I was very young when this film was released aside other equally progressive, but far more wholesome films like "Fight Club" and "American Beauty" and my parents weren't even alive in the days of Pleasantville, but, seeing the results of progressive movements in the year 2016, it seems to me like the slope really was slippery and the areas seems to be gray once again.