Quiz 1 By DentonWilliams

One day in class we watched a few minutes of a motion picture named Pleasantville.  The film stars Tobey Maquire and Reese Witherspoon. Twins, David and Jennifer get zapped into a black and white television sitcom called Pleasantville, due to a magical remote from a mysetrious man played by Don Knotts.  For the sake of getting home David and Jennifer must play the parts of the characters that they have become and hope that the repairman will get them out.

However  the they realize that the Pleasantville characters do have feelings, desires and urges, they just didn't know that they existed.  Through the discovery of sex, reading books and romance, some characters start changing colors and by the end the whole town is colorful.

This movie speaks of the beginning of the feminist movement where the housewife doesn's stay in the house anymore.  There is a sense of prejudice between the black & whites and the coloreds.   There is a sense of being confined into a town that never changes and nobody leaves Pleasantville.  Also there is a sense that there is such thing as free will in a world where everything seems to stay the same but with the introduction of a few things free will is discovered.  Of course with free will comes violence which quickly appears.