Pleasantville (film)

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Pleasantville is a New Line Cinema film first released in Canada on September 17, 1998 starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels. Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Marley Shelton, Jane Kaczmarek and J. T. Walsh are also featured. The film was written, produced, and directed by Gary Ross.

In the film two modern teenagers are mysteriously transported into the fictitious community of Pleasantville, the setting of a black and white 1950's television show. Through their actions the people of Pleasantville begin to experience strong emotion and consequently, events in town begin to deviate from the accepted norm.

[edit] Cultural Marxism

The film allegory for the Marxist social theories of the Frankfurt School.

"PLEASANTVILLE advocates a self-contradictory, therefore false, moral relativism that attacks traditional morality while at the same time setting up its own permissive morality that the audience is supposed to support... It also accepts the neo-Marxist view of psychological, sexual and social 'repression' developed by the Frankfurt School, the neo-Marxist think tank that influenced those confused 60s radicals. American public schools and colleges, using taxpayers' money, have force-fed this insidious new morality to our nation's youth for the last 50 years. It has also infected the secular mass media, including film critics and many nationally-known journalists"- Dr. Baehr[1]