It's not just the sex that's bringing color to Pleasantville.
To me Pleasantville was a huge surprise. Like it is listed on Epinions, I had thought it was a comedy. It should be classified as a drama in my Epinion. I found it one of the most moving pictures I had seen in years.
You might think the screenwriter or author was being paid for each literary device used in Pleasantville; the entire story was allusions, allegories, metaphors, and hyperbole:
Biblical -- From the burning bush to the Garden of Eden and the Forbidden Fruit.
Historical- From the Civil rights movement to Book Burnings. (yes discrimination against "colored folk", (groan))
and Literary, From freedom discovered in Huckleberry Finn to a "Code of Conduct" right out of Animal Farm.
Midway through the movie, the female protagonists states aloud: I've had ten times as much sex as the others, how come I'm still black and white. The color was not about sex, at least not for everyone -- more so about "Coming of age". Generally a coming of age movie is marked by a character or characters who go from:
Ignorance to Knowledge
Innocence to Experience
False Views to Correct Views
Idealism to Realism, and/or
Immature Responsiveness to Mature Decision Making
As each character, and the town itself evolves in one or more of these areas, the town starts to become "colored in", one leaf, one bird, one person at a time. The coloration is a metaphor for their completeness of character, their transformation and coming of age. The rain, the first rain in a previously "perfect world" also helps wash away the gray, the innocence.
While there are many humorous things that happen in the movie, I caution those so inclined, this movie can be a tear jerker. If all of Ted Turner's colorized black and whites had this much character, there may have never been another movie made.
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