Change In Pleasantville
Pleasantville is a movie about a boy named David and his sister, Jennifer, who get transported into an alternate universe based on a 1950’s television show, Pleasantville. This town has no faults, there’s no inclement weather, no violence, no fire, their basketball team never misses a shot, and no sexual activity. This all changes when these two siblings enter this world. They try to conform to the world, but instead the world conforms to them. Change isn’t always easy, and this movie shows how difficult it can be. The first sign of change was when Jennifer, who goes by Mary-Sue in this world, catches the eye of the captain of the basketball team. He wanted to give her his pin at the local restaurant, but she had a different idea. She asked
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They were colored, which actually represents a time in America where segregation existed. Whites separated themselves from the blacks, which was exactly happening in the movie. The people of color were looked down on, and had to conform to the old ways, while the non-colored people could stay the way they always were. David was going to make the town change, or at least embrace the change. He teamed up with his/ bud’s coworker, Bill Johnson. Bill loved to paint, and together they painted a mural of the changes that’s been happening around the town. The mural was beautifully painted with many colors. The mural was painted on a brick wall for everyone to see. This caused the both of them to go to court. The court was segregated between the colored and non-coloreds. The jury was composed of non-coloreds, but David’s words cause them to change, and in the end, Big Bob. With everyone changed, the whole town changed. Other places around the world existed. Everything was beautiful, there was color everywhere. The town finally embraced the change. Pleasantville showed how change is a hard thing to conform to, but when everyone tries, the world becomes a better place. People are happy, and everything you know becomes more special. Things can’t stay the same forever, because if they did, no one would see the beauty in life. Everything would be “grey”. It just takes a brave person to begin the time of
They were colored, which actually represents a time in America where segregation existed. Whites separated themselves from the blacks, which was exactly happening in the movie. The people of color were looked down on, and had to conform to the old ways, while the non-colored people could stay the way they always were. David was going to make the town change, or at least embrace the change. He teamed up with his/ bud’s coworker, Bill Johnson. Bill loved to paint, and together they painted a mural of the changes that’s been happening around the town. The mural was beautifully painted with many colors. The mural was painted on a brick wall for everyone to see. This caused the both of them to go to court. The court was segregated between the colored and non-coloreds. The jury was composed of non-coloreds, but David’s words cause them to change, and in the end, Big Bob. With everyone changed, the whole town changed. Other places around the world existed. Everything was beautiful, there was color everywhere. The town finally embraced the change. Pleasantville showed how change is a hard thing to conform to, but when everyone tries, the world becomes a better place. People are happy, and everything you know becomes more special. Things can’t stay the same forever, because if they did, no one would see the beauty in life. Everything would be “grey”. It just takes a brave person to begin the time of