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Pleasantville (was Re: Land this sucker)

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Subject: Pleasantville (was Re: Land this sucker)
From: Don Smith <dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:35:00 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

I still think that to criticize Pleasantville's portrayal of the 50's misses
the point.  That film wasn't a criticism of the 50's as they really were: it's
a criticism of someone in the 90's who wants to escape into a version of the
50's that never was in the first place.  It's that false nostalgia that is the
focus of the film.  I think the director also said something to that effect in
the DVD commentary, if memory serves.

Yours,
-- 
Don Smith                           Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
donaldas at umich_edu                                 http://xte.mit.edu/~dasmith/

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