Women In Pleasantville

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Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross (1998), is a movie about a small town named Pleasantville. In this town everything, from the behaviors of citizens to the way the houses appeared, was perfect. Throughout the film, the town slowly began to change from black and white to colored showing how the citizens began to realize it was okay to be different. In the end, nothing and no one was the same. This was a great example of how times have slowly been changing for the better especially for women. In the film Mona Lisa Smile, directed by Mike Newell (2003), women were shown as up and coming. They were doing male dominant jobs like being a professor and studying new classes. Ms. Watson, their professor, pushed these women do follow their dreams

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