Pleasantville

[viscousmemories]

I finally saw this on :cd: tonight. It was a cute, touching movie with a blatantly obvious moral, but I'm a sucker for such things. And Reese.

So I say :super:. Definitely worth the price of admission.

[Blake]

It was a cute, touching movie with a blatantly obvious moral, ....
Goodness me! I thought it was a great deal more than that. If nothing else, the uniformly wonderful quality of the performances places it above most other movies. Sure, the allegory is blatant--I can't say I thought there was a terribly prominent single moral, or that it ended moralistically--but in my case, anyway, the serious turn of the movie was very much an astonishing surprise. I think it easily belongs on any "top movies" list.

[viscousmemories]

It was a cute, touching movie with a blatantly obvious moral, ....
Goodness me! I thought it was a great deal more than that. If nothing else, the uniformly wonderful quality of the performances places it above most other movies.
Okay, okay. I confess I liked it a lot more than I let on. I just didn't wanna come across looking like a pussy for being all moved by such an overtly sentimental flick. But yeah, the performances were spot on. Particularly Jeff Daniels, but also Reese, Tobey and William Macy. Well hell, all of 'em. :)

Sure, the allegory is blatant--I can't say I thought there was a terribly prominent single moral, or that it ended moralistically--but in my case, anyway, the serious turn of the movie was very much an astonishing surprise.
Yeah! Allegory! That's the droid I was looking for. I didn't mean moral, I meant allegory. I didn't find it overly moralistic either. I guess I'm a cynic 'cause once they started talking about coloreds I actually expected a much more dramatic turn for the worst than there was in the end.

I think it easily belongs on any "top movies" list.
I'll go along with that. :)

[freemonkey]

I loved this movie, too! Keeping in mind its been a couple of years since I saw it (I should see it again), did we get the same stuff from it?

For starters: Open your eyes? Live your life like you really mean it?

[viscousmemories]

For starters: Open your eyes? Live your life like you really mean it?
Yeah, don't trade passion for security. Accept change. Don't take art and literature for granted. Be yourself. Think what you like and say what you think. :didi:

[Dingfod]

Holy crap, that movie is old. I saw it in Spanish on a flight to Venezuela back in 1999. Loved it. My wife didn't get it. Figures.

[livius drusus]

That's just 5 years ago, warrenly; surely that doesn't qualify as old quite yet. ;)

I love the movie as well, just for the record. There are so many beautiful moments: Tobey and his girl driving through the slow shower of pink blossoms while Etta James sings At Last; Tobey putting the black and white makeup onto Joan Allen; Jeff Daniels looking through the art book.

Joan Allen is amazing. She's beautiful and willowy and genuine and so, so expressive. The whole movie plays itself out on her face. I think she's terribly underrated, both as an actress and as a beauty.

[Clutch Munny]

William H Macy, summing up in a half-dozen camera-pauses on his face the incomprehension, sweet if not for its pathology, of a man coming to grips with the idea of his wife as a person. A fine movie, in my estimation.