Comments on: Pleasantville vs. The Truman Show http://www.electrolund.com/1998/05/pleasantville-vs-the-truman-show » I solder the body electric « Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:53:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: patty http://www.electrolund.com/1998/05/pleasantville-vs-the-truman-show/comment-page-1#comment-621 patty Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:10:38 +0000 http://www.electrolund.com/1998/05/pleasantville-vs-the-truman-show/#comment-621 hmm. pleasantville is one of my favorite movies. we had to watch it in one of my grad school classes and analyze it for postmodern theory. i can appreciate your review and interpretation- really, i can. for sure i can accept the idea that pleasantville can be interpreted as a criticism of traditional values. in addition, though, what i like about the film is that it also defies maintaining tradition just for tradition's sake. it allows for multiple perspectives and complex existence. one "right" way does not have to prevail. with six years distance do you still feel the same way about it as you did in this review? hmm. pleasantville is one of my favorite movies. we had to watch it in one of my grad school classes and analyze it for postmodern theory.

i can appreciate your review and interpretation- really, i can. for sure i can accept the idea that pleasantville can be interpreted as a criticism of traditional values.

in addition, though, what i like about the film is that it also defies maintaining tradition just for tradition’s sake. it allows for multiple perspectives and complex existence. one “right” way does not have to prevail.

with six years distance do you still feel the same way about it as you did in this review?

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