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Pleasantville 1998 123movies

Pleasantville 1998 123movies

Nothing is as simple as black and white.Sep. 17, 1998124 Min.
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Watch: Pleasantville 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – David Wagner is a kid whose mind is stuck in the 1950s. He’s addicted to a classic 50’s sitcom television show called “Pleasantville”. Pleasantville is a simple place, a place where all of its citizens are swell and simple-minded folks, a place where the word “violence”, and life outside of Pleasantville, is unbeknownst to its inhabitants; things are perfect down in Pleasantville. One evening, the life of David and his obnoxious sister Jennifer take a bizarre turn when an eccentric repairman hand them a supposed magical remote. After a quarrel between the siblings, they inexplicably zap themselves into the world of “Pleasantville”. Now, David and Jennifer must adjust to a 50s lifestyle of repressed desires and considerably different societal values while trying to find their way home..
Plot: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called “Pleasantville,” and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer’s modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville’s peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
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7.5/10 Votes: 130,420
86% | RottenTomatoes
71/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 1428 Popularity: 14.014 | TMDB

Reviews:

I heard about this movie, but I didn’t know that it would be THIS good….
I knew what this film would be about before I rented it, but I’m stunned that it would be THIS good. Nothing against “Saving Private Ryan” or “Shakespeare in Love”, but this film should have won Best Picture in 1998 and it was a shame that it wasn’t nominated. It’s an even bigger injustice that it did not get a nomination for best screenplay or cinematography.

In the hands of another writer, this movie could have been made as just a parody of 1950’s sitcoms like “Leave It To Beaver” or “Ozzie and Harriet.” But this film isn’t about how clichéd those series look decades later. It’s about the false nostalgia for a past that never existed. We survived the past and we know that everything turned out all right. Because of this, we selectively choose our memories and weed out the unpleasant ones. That’s why the past is sometimes seen as “the good ol’ days.” Pleasantville does not represent how the 50’s actually were but rather an idealization of what people THINK the 50’s were—no one had sex, everyone got along swell, and life was fairly easy. Nothing could be further from the truth, and there are many film from that era which show how real people (even in suburbia) actually lived. This film argues that free will and choice is ESSENTIAL to life and that we should embrace freedom instead of fearing it. It isn’t just about making out, but having the OPTION to make out.

Another reviewer claimed that this film was an attack on the 50’s, but David and Jennifer could very easily have been dumped in the world of “The Brady Bunch”, “Gilligan’s Island” , or “Batman.” But setting “Pleasantville” in a 1950’s sitcom allows for the brilliant metaphor of black and white versus color. Black and white photography is a stylized depiction of the universe, but unless you’re color blind it’s not the way you actually see the universe. When we first see Pleasantville’s citizens, all of them are cardboard cut-outs of stereotypes. As they begin to open up and become real people, color seeps into their world. The catalyst seems to be the willingness to experience new sensations and become vulnerable. Jennifer has slept with lot of guys when she was in the normal world, so sex does not change HER into a color character. On the other hand, when she actually finishes a book (without pictures) for the first time in her life, THEN she becomes colorized. Similarly, David does not bloom into color until he breaks out of his aloofness and defends his “mother.” Compare the way he ignores his real mother at the beginning of the film to how he consoles and comforts her at the end to see how much David has changed.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. There are a lot of films out there that are very entertaining and/or very moving–like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or “Titanic.” Movies like “Pleasantville” which challenge the audience and force them to think are very rare, and should be treasured by the discerning filmgoer.

Review By: Eddie C.
One of the first movies I watched with Tobey Maguire & Reese Witherspoon!
David and Jennifer are a brother and sister of the 90’s. They have a terrible relationship with each other and with their parents, who doesn’t care very much about them and are always discussing with each other. David loves to watch Pleasantville – a 1950’s Black and White soap opera, where everything is perfect and everybody is sweet and polite with each other, what is totally different from the reality that he lives. One day, when they both are alone in their house, they broke the TV remote control in a fight, and a very strange repair man gives David a new remote that is capable of sending them (Jennifer and David) to the Pleasantville soap Opera, inside the TV.

Trapped in a life of old fashioned values, they both need to live as Mary Sue and Bud to integrate themselves into this 50’s life, so different from what they were used. What do they don’t know, is the difference they will make to the Pleasantville’s society and how this little society will also change them.

I watched ”Pleasantville” for the first time when I was 12, and I recently watched again with 23 years old. Even after one decade, the story continues to be good to me. I like very much the interesting metaphor of getting colored/changing inside, after doing something bold or having a challenge in your life.

This film was one of the first I saw with Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon( Who would say they would become such famous actors!) and I totally recommend to anyone who wants to watch an interesting and different movie.

Review By: Lady_Targaryen

Other Information:

Original Title Pleasantville
Release Date 1998-09-17
Release Year 1998

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 4 min (124 min)
Budget 60000000
Revenue 49805462
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director Gary Ross
Writer Gary Ross
Actors Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 18 wins & 45 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA, Hollywood Film & Video, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,412 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, EXR 500T 5298)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format) (some scenes), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Pleasantville 1998 123movies
Pleasantville 1998 123movies
Pleasantville 1998 123movies
Pleasantville 1998 123movies
Pleasantville 1998 123movies
Pleasantville 1998 123movies
Pleasantville 1998 123movies
Original title Pleasantville
TMDb Rating 7.253 1,428 votes

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