Change In Pleasantville

The concept of change is conveyed through the film Pleasantville in various ways such as colour from black and white to a colourful Pleasantville. This film portrayed the changes that occurred in American society over the past 50 years. The movie describes various changes that occurred such as in sexual relations, violence, and family matters and roles. Pleasantville film represents the viewer with how the racial and sexual equality began and that the world we live in is not perfect. It also depicts the on-going changes in everyday lifestyles of the American citizens. Another change was the civil rights movements, reversed racism. Also, women’s liberation was submissive but not sexual. Moreover, sexual revolution the advent of the pill. Pleasantville

was a fantasy comedy drama that was produced in 1998 by Gary Ross. The film story line was centred around two siblings who were trapped in utopia world called Pleasantville. In this small lower town, all the residents were seen as perfect. Within the siblings journey they came more aware of social issues that were present, such as racism and freedom of speech.
The initial journey began with the remote control being the control of their voyage. Their voyage being trapped in a whole new world back in the 1950’s with the black and white, picket fences, bobby socks, everybody was middle class, married couples slept in separate beds and everyone was white. Although this was the case David was familiar with this setting as he was a TV trivia expert. The siblings trapped in this world felt that they were nerds, boring and unchangeable. This was conveyed because there was no violence, drug, alcohol and no social problems. When changes occurred in Pleasantville the civil right movement had issue in Pleasantville as colour was the problem. The transformation from monochrome to multicolour was the beginning of racism. Though monochrome people were the true citizens of this Pleasantville and this was moral values of the town. The multi-coloured people were the ones that undergone the various changes such as emotions and personal freedom. Other white people segregated themselves from the coloured people. Although we are living in a world of equal rights utopia world then had racism because of the transition from black and white to colour. However, the coloured people were isolated away from the things that black and white people were privileged from, for example music, restaurants and even school.
The Sexual revolution, the advent of the pill.

Sexuality in Pleasantville was no existence as the relationships between female and male were only the creation of family. Sex before marriage in the 1950 was a sin at one point the movie is viewed promoting promiscuity in Pleasantville. The duty of the family was clearly strict and sex before marriage was a no. In Pleasantville males, would work outside the home while females took care of the household chores and the children. Furthermore, teenager relationships were pure and innocent, then change was introduced by Mary Sue, who was unhappy with this dull life. What begins to develop in Pleasantville is the ideal that the colorless world is becoming to be coloured. The Introduction of color represented in Pleasantville was the pluralization of society and the freedom of self-determination of people in the future that brings meaning such as happiness and pleasure. The pluralization of Pleasantville included sex, pleasure art, books and lust. Sexuality began changes and a revolution of sex has begun with a symbolized by a striking red rose. It also made Skip introduce sex to the basketball team thus it was described as an infection and others lose their innocence. As infectious as it was it made the players unable to score perfect

goals.
Initially, at Pleasantville the people lacked autonomy and character in various ways. Their lives were all the same they spoke identical words and greetings this seemed so unreal and could have been identical as plastic facial expressions just like a doll. The features that were present in the film was the monochromatic various shades of greys this was so significant in the scene. This presented the reflection of the loss of individualism within the American citizen lives in the 1950s, their lives were set out as being a perfect life that meant that everyone had restrictions on the way they behaved, expressed themselves and the way they thought.
In conclusion, the set of Pleasantville was changed it could be said the code of conduct was varied. The new citizens could differentiate the way of living in the town, this coursed destruction within society of Pleasantville. This concept of change was welcoming as people were not in a robotic kind of living anymore. The introduction of colour was greeted openly from the boring old monochrome greys to the bright coloured world.