PLEASANTVILLE

ditulis pada tanggal 6 Pebruari 2007

Title:

Pleasantville (1998)

Written, Produced and Directed by Gary Ross

Cast:

William H. Macy, Tobey Maguire, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, Reese Witherspoon

Plot

David, single, lonely and not happy with his life, flees reality by watching Pleasantville - a 1950's b&w soap opera, where everything is just...pleasant. His sister Jennifer, sexually far more active than her brother, gets in a fight with him about a very strange remote control - given to them just seconds after the TV broke by an equally strange repair man - and they suddenly find themselves in Pleasantville, as Bud and Mary-Sue Parker, completely assimilated and therefore black and white, in clothes a little different and with new parents...pleasant ones. David wants to get out of the situation as well as his sister, but whereas he tries to blend in (effortlessly, with his knowledge), she does what she likes to do. One event leads to the other, and suddenly there is a red rose growing in Pleasantville. The more rules are broken, the more colorful life gets in Pleasantville, USA.

Note

Akhirnya ketonton juga nih film. Setelah melalui ‘perburuan’ panjang atas film ini, akhirnya dapet juga di M2M (bajakan sih) bulan lalu. Barusan nonton bareng istri gue.

Begitu David dan kakaknya ‘masuk’ Plesantville dan mulai ada reaksi atas munculnya warna warni di sana, gue langsung teringat FPI! :D Iya, FPI dan beberapa ormas Islam lainnya (katanya sih Islam!) yang kepingin dunia ini dalam ‘warna’ yang sama dengan dunia mereka. :(

Padahal manusia dan kehidupannya penuh dengan ‘warna’. Hal ini bagus banget divisualisasikan dan disampaikan di film ini.

Tagline-nya Pleasantville jelas bagus banget: Nothing is Simple as Black and White.

Film ini well recommended.

PS:

Sayang sekali Almahum Bokap gue belom sempet nonton film ini.

Gue pingin banget tau comment beliau atas film ini.

I miss You so much, Dad