PLEASANTVILLE

Pleasantville

[Name of the Institute]

Pleasantville

Introduction

Pleasantville, written, produced, and directed by Gary Ross, is a film supposedly about television, but to a keen eye, it is also a film about reading books and children, and their status in the cultural firmament, in the closing chapter of the twentieth century. It is a time-travel adventure like "back to the future. It questions the existence of such a bright future as the one dreamed of in America in the 1950s. 1984 was a long way off both in time and distance; Orwell's grim vision was obviously an allegory about Stalinist Russia, not America. That's the fifties that Pleasantville takes on: a pop vision of postwar peace and prosperity. The movie is a fairy tale; it starts with the appropriate spell-binding words printed boldly on the screen. It is a time, apparently related to certainty of harmony.

We kept a lot of things under consideration in the fifties; sex, racial intolerance, the dissolution of the family, and it was a time brimming with faith in the Future. The future promised robots that would do the dirty work so that we could more fully enjoy endless hours of recreation (Blakely, Edward J, Snyder, 1997). The biggest news, in recreation, was television. In its early days there was some truly ambitious drama produced. Television was viewed with great excitement by the arts community. In this paper about the movie Pleasantville, intend to highlight the importance of aesthetic, perceptual transformations as an engine of political awareness, highlighting the passage of black and white to multicolored in movies and on television as the main theme of the film. We will discuss social factors, which were highlighted in the movie.

Discussion

Pleasantville, a smart, subtle and touching movie that even after many hits did not leave you indifferent to this melodramatic story, with no share of coca and retro fantasy.

Schoolboy Wagner likes to watch a TV show "Pleasantville," where the action takes place in the 50s and in a nice, small town where everyone understands each other, love, enjoy life, they have no problems, the eternal evil, everyone is happy and cheerful, perfect world that distracts David, from the cruel and aggressive. One day, late at night coming home technician who gives Wagner an unusual, remote control that allows you to get into the perfect world of "Pleasantville."

An interesting story just drags the viewer does not give him not a second off the screen; thus, the audience dissolves instantly in history and is transferred from his couch in an amazing black and white world, he considered the protagonist of the tape. The more he learns the town and its inhabitants, and then realizes that all people are like cardboard template, which can not feel and do what they want, doing every day the same thing. They become as lifeless and free personality "men", forgetting that life is not just black and white every day, and bright and contrasting, breathable rainbow life, just have it in themselves to open!

After the appearance of the characters ...