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Dispite the difficulties the characters in Pleasantville are

 

            Dispite the difficulties the characters in Pleasantville are better off for experiencing change in their lives. Discuss.
             In the film, Pleasantville, all characters experience change -- not progress, which suggests all change is for the better, all innovation immediately positive. Indeed, along with sex, art, and literature, characters experience difficulties like prejudice and rioting. While David experiences initial insecurity he develops into a self-confident leader, and while Jennifer suffers initial rebellion, she matures into an intelligent and meaningful woman. The film most definitely takes the side of those people who in spite of difficulties work to embrace change or at the least to accept it and face it unafraid. Pleasantville opens by pointing out many negatives in our current world -- but soon enough hints that there are problems if the fantasies we use to escape are too unreal. In the end, the best world seems to be one that balances both our supposed ideals and the real world. .
             Dispite David's initial resistance to change, David is better off for experiencing change in his life. David changes from a socially inept individual through his own insecurity and inner belief to the self-confident and reassuring leader at the end of the film. In David's first appearance, he timidly asks out a girl who is standing far too far away to hear him. David's social dismay has evidently lead to his search for comfort, predictability and security -- Pleasantville. Soon after David is seen watching the sitcom Pleasantville where he proceeds to quote what the characters on the show say prior to them saying it. David is obviously attracted to Pleasantville's predictability and comforts both contrasts to his current social and home environments. After being cast into Pleasantville David, a rabid fan of the sitcom, is first reluctant to change anything in this new world. David proceeds to argue with Mary-sue/Jennifer that you cannot change the Pleasantville world, the citizens don't know how to deal with it.


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