Pleasantville
The other day while over a friend’s house we started watching the movie Pleasantville. At first I thought it looked terrible and was actually about to leave when I realized that the whole movie was based on the functionalist perspective of sociology.The movie was about a brother and sister from the 90’s who get zapped into the 50’s television show Pleasantville where everything is perfect and nothing ever goes wrong. Throughout the movie their ideas contaminate the people and things are no longer so pleasant. What we see in the end though is that even the things that seem terrible actually serve a function in the way that things work. One of the most obvious symbols in the movie is that when people do something that they normally would not have they become “colored” while everything else is black and white. When people start becoming colored, the others start to discriminate against them. In same cases, through their anger for the colored people, these people did things they would not have normally done, causing them to become colored. Therefore the fu
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Mary Sue, , Mary Sues, read book, terrible actually, serve function, actually serve function, terrible actually serve, getting colors, actually serve, mary sue, functionalist view, people normally, movie pleasantville,
Approximate Word count = 719
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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