Pleasantville is about everything. That seems like a sweeping statement, but as I was tumbling about in its various sub-texts and themes and images, I noticed there's even an Adam and Eve moment. And for sure, the film's about education, and self-improvement. And race. And art and music, sex, the 1950s, TV vs. reality. And even... and I was getting that the hands shaking symbol of the Chamber of Commerce - even that starts looking weirdly like some dictatorship / Nazi symbol, the way it's designed and shot.
It seems that after the seventies, Hollywood had quite a trend for fantasy, with films like Big, Back to the Future, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Witches of Eastwick...
Ross carried Tobey McGuire and William H Macy forward to
Seabiscuit... and composer Randy Newman and editor William Goldenberg. It's beautifully photographed by John Lindley. For more info see
here.
It's very good.
Q reminded me that Bowie also had recorded a version of
'Across the Universe'. It was for the 'Young Americans' album.
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