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Pleasantville
Well produced, but unadventurous, comedy drama about two kids magically transported
into a b/w TV soap. Once there, and trapped in roles as comparatively naïve,
supposedly innocent 1950s teenagers, our 1990s heroes inevitably change the placid
townspeople, resulting in a somewhat disconcerting colorization of the environment and
its inhabitants. Technically, it's a triumph of visual effects but the undercurrent of
racism and eventual emergence of such time-warp comedy elements made familiar by
Back To The Future and its imitators, has an entirely negative effect on
proceedings. The utopian fantasy of TV soaps is revealed to be inexcusably shallow, and
just as empty as the blank-paged books in Pleasantville's library. DOWSE
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