The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167696   Message #4050298
Posted By: DMcG
04-May-20 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: Video Recommendations for lockdown
Subject: RE: Video Recommendations for lockdown
Daughter-of-mine is recommending Pleasantville. Here is a "copy and paste" of a thread on Messenger about it:

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Her: I think that I loved this film but didn't know the words for it
I just didn't know enough Sartre

I think that we watched it when I was about 15? It has so many avenues of interest and something that I now find more interesting as an adult

The idea of colour representing existentialism or free thought

"They are happy like this"

"No woman is happy in a poodle skirt"


Me: Clever, yes, but also probably really critical timing in making it. Having every frame partially colour and partially not was probably impossible earlier, and later films needing that depth of thought were not "box office"
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So if your Sartre is up to scratch, it is worth a try.