Role-play. 46 Imagine Moses Caldor has recently seen the film "Pleasantville"
46 Imagine Moses Caldor has recently seen the film "Pleasantville". This generated a lot of controversy in him and he is between minds now about his initially good intent to share the library resources. He will presently talk to Mirissa about his apprehension. She will be inquisitive, thirsty for knowledge and look on the bright side. Fantastical writer Gary Ross makes a directorial debut with this inspired and oddly touching comedy. When a somewhat unusual remote control transports youngsters from the real world to TV land, David and Jennifer get into the sweet 1950s sitcom "Pleasantville." Everything is in black-and-white and everything is perfect – if you shoot a basketball in the air, it will ALWAYS land RIGHT in the hoop, guaranteed. Everything works like clockwork – the father comes home from work and the mother has the dinner on time. Everyone respects each other. But once David & Jennifer start interacting with everyone, that's when everything slowly becomes imperfect – and everything slowly changes to colour. "Pleasantville" tells the story of two strangers who bring colour to a black-and-white town of the late 1950s by upsetting the traditional value-system of the locals and leading them into various temptations. "Pleasantville" targets the «normalcy» of suburbia in the US of the 1950s. Their conservatism is soon challenged by these two youngsters who introduce them to the values their decade inherited from the sixties and all the iconoclastic eras of history: abstract art, rock’n roll, women’s liberation, "Catcher in the Rye", pre-marital sex and adultery – to which, if the movie had not been so cautious not to blow its family-movie cover, might have been added tobacco, alcohol and drugs. Now the "enlightenment" in this black-and-white town never goes unnoticed, for all those who bite into the apple suddenly acquire colour. So soon war breaks out between the inquisitorial black-and-white forces of reaction and the persecuted «coloured people», a bunch of enlightened liberals who just seek the freedom to «express themselves».
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