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When "90s popular culture collides with 50s values, chaos results," reads the film promo, but what really happens when 90s values collide with our popular culture representations of the 50s? In order to discern this puzzling question we must first understand what were the 90’s values. The nineties was unlike any decade before it. It was a time of libral mindedness and expementation. The nineties was so libral that Lawyer Daniel Foley filed suit in Hawaii on behalf of gay couples in pursuit of same-sex marriage. A lower court rejected the suit but in 1993 the Hawaii Supreme Court reinstated it. In the society that we live in today we would just regard this as every day occurrence and not be at all surprised. This is because our generation is very tolerant to all corners of society. Things that did come, as a shock however was the Sex scandal of the Clinton administration in the late nineties. Bill Clinton was ultimately acquitted of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. The point is that what happened in the nineties would have shocked the fifties but instead it came as a commonplace to the nineties decade. The more the generation of the nineties saw these atrocities the more they became commonplace
. This was even fed to the children of the nineties. For example in the early nineties the supreme court ruled unanimously that sexually harassed students may sue to collect monetary damages from their schools and school officials. This is the right thing to do in a sense that we should protect our children but do we really need to sue the school district what are we teaching our children. These are all examples of what the nineties values consisted of. The language of Pleasantville was so innocent that it made me sick. Their slang words were words like swell and dandy, but my opinion is that this is the pop culture representation of the fifties. The only sign that states that the fifties even used those words are in popular television shows of that time which cannot be accurate depictions due to the nature of their creation, to entertain. Unfortunately I did not live through the fifties decade so I cannot accurately depict what took place, only what pop culture has told me took place. From what I do know it was a time of innocence and bigoted towards anything remotely different. This meant that if you were promiscuous, an alcoholic, or just about anything that was considered out of the ordinary you kept it to yourself. To give you an idea how innocent the decade was in th
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