Review of Pleasantville (1998) by Luca V — 18 Aug 2010
The first thought about this film is the song "Across the Universe" sung by Fiona Apple, which is the ideal way to explain this film which is a bridge that connect an idyllic past to an aggressive present.
Indeed the two representatives of the contemporary time, or real time (because Pleasantville is supposed to be a television movie), aren't compliant enough. Well Reese Winterspoon plays the role of a modern girl who has never read a book and who likes to change her boyfriend. There is Tobey Maguire who is on the other hand a shy guy who loves watching this kind of 'family-focused' movie. So the two brothers (Winterspoon and Maguire) are projected in this Pleasantville and they find themselves amid a family who eats so much (because they advert those things they eat), whose greatest infraction to the moral code is a kiss. Winterspoon is very bored of this, so she changes the rules and the black + white world turns little by little to a shiny colored agglomerate, even people become colored, like a reversed Michael Jackson.
All those discoveries: colour, love, geography shake the fundamentalism of this community. But everyone of us, even the most conservative can open himself to novelties.
This review of Pleasantville (1998) was written by Luca V on 18 Aug 2010.
Pleasantville has generally received very positive reviews.
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