I think it is an interesting, thought provoking movie, but I can't quite get a handle on where they were going with it. I'd just like to hear people's thoughts on the movie.
2006-10-19 05:56:49 · 14 answers · asked by BaseballGrrl 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
What was the color representing?
2006-10-19 06:22:11 · update #1
i think the message is that there are Good and Bad things in both Traditional and Modern times; we need to always seek what is Positive and Healthy and keep our minds Open. being ignorant and staying "traditional" without learning and growing is NOT good: look at how the prim, proper young boys suddenly turned so nasty when joanne woodward character was "colored".... also, look at how reese witherspoon's character ended up going the "traditional" route of college and reading instead of being slutty and having attitude as she did in the beginning of the movie.
pretty much, i think the movie is trying to say Learn from the past, and keep the Good things from the previous generations..but be able to adapt and change in a Positive way in the future. :)
** i think the color represented Knowledge.. opening of eyes to full Wonder of life.. appreciating EVERYTHING blesses us with.... categorizing sex, speaking ur mind, having new ideas as "bad" was the black and white, and breaking those categories, finding the good in All things, was the moment of "truth", where they turned "color"....reese witherspoon turned to color NOT because she was having sex, but because she was reading a book!! so it's not just "oh they found sexual pleasure, they turned color"..that's not the case!
2006-10-19 06:08:59 · answer #1 · answered by sasmallworld 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think the movie has several messages. One being that the grass is always greener on the other side. Whether he realized it or not the time he was living in was actually a better time than the 1950’s which, while seeming to be perfect, Utopian, idyllic, was actually stultifying and repressive. The people in that town were in a sort of prison, a gilded cage, where they went through the motions of happiness. There was no real history, the seasons never changed, there was no color, no passion. Not until the sister introduced sexuality to the citizens. A vital human force that unleashed what was simmering just below the surface of everyone in Pleasantville. It’s interesting too that in unleashing the towns people’s hidden passions, desires, needs and strengths the protagonist unleashed his own. He was in a kind of Pleasantville of his own living a drab, dull, repressed existence in not facing the demons in his own life. You could also think about this movie as people for whatever reasons, repressing their authentic selves and then finding them again. Everyone was transformed in the end. Or a simpler message could be the importance of the arts, self-expression and intellectual freedom.
2006-10-19 06:19:41 · answer #2 · answered by inquiringmind 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love that movie - I think it works on so many levels. One of its major themes is Pleasantville as a microcosm of America. It shows some of the ways in which American culture changed during the transition from the 1950s to the 1960s. During the 60's, society grew more accepting of many concepts, particularly the concept of personal freedom. Women's liberation, enjoyable sex, artistic expression (including music)...none of these happened overnight. They were accepted by one person or small group of people at a time, and the movie showed how other people reacted to it.
2006-10-19 06:14:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it's telling the viewer to let some color into their life and not see everything as black and white or in shades of grey. Life is much more interesting in color!
2006-10-19 05:58:43 · answer #4 · answered by Scotsman 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
anything is possible if you just accept change and go on with your life
Jennifer would have never gone on to college or even picked up a book if it wasn't for going into pleasantville and accepting who the girl she was supposed to be playing and letting herself change into her
2006-10-19 06:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by TBird 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i love that movie. life isn't black and white...or even shades of gray...it is living color and all the messy stuff that comes with it. and as safe and comfortable as you think having everything in black and white and spelled out for you looks....in just a short time....you see the short sightedness and short comings of it all. Nothings perfect..but it sure doesn't have to be dull.....
2006-10-19 06:09:50 · answer #6 · answered by Cheryl E 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The message is to watch one TV show all the time until you know everything about it. Who knows if one day you have to warp into that show and interact with the characters. It would be embarassing if you didn't know anything about them.
2006-10-19 07:08:27 · answer #7 · answered by Scotty B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The color represents racial diversity.
The giveaway is the sign in one of the stores "no blacks allowed".
It's much more gratifying to figure out the underlying message of art and literature for yourself:-)
2017-03-03 19:38:35 · answer #8 · answered by Doug Richards 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't judge people by the way they look. it reminded me of the fifties problems with whites and blacks but this time whites against whites. it was a good movie telling us to look inside the person to find their true self
2006-10-19 06:07:25 · answer #9 · answered by pmktabbycat 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Being different is the beauty of life.
2006-10-19 05:59:54 · answer #10 · answered by Billy K 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋