What I want to know is when is “Roundup Day”, Wednesday? And what are the five titles for the days? I can only think of three: “Guest Star Day”? “Anything Can Happen Day” and “Roundup Day”.

"I’m no fool, nosiree. I’m going to live to be eighty-three…"

Chap, here's a link with all the lyrics to each day's theme!

http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/mickey.htm

Thursday was "Circus Day"!
("Talent Round-up" was Friday)

"... I play safe for you and me, 'cause I'm no fool!"

"Beauty is as Beauty does, that's what wise men say..."

Nard- I kind of thought pleasentville was far too preachy, and out of touch with the reality of the true moralty of this country. Who was it aimed at, really? The moral majority? Thats been out of existance for years.
It was a little over-rated, I think. I watched it recently and found it rather grating.

The "true morality of this country" is probably not exactly what the media would have us believe it is.

Braling II is right about the media. But I think there are a lot of moral people out there, all over. Remember, lots of people are scared so they act mean and wear masks but deep down they’re ready to save a kitty or help a wee old woman with her groceries.

Its almost as if, (and forgive me if I interperated (spelling?) the film wrong) the film makers are making commentary on the countries aversion to sex and sexuality, almost making it seem like its, far too moral, when in fact, that hasnt been the case for years, in my opinion, I feel like the film is beating a dead horse, or making an already dead point.

The writers and directors of PLEASANTVILLE are playing to an audience indifferent to the general day to day American reality after a world war that just wiped out 65 plus millions. In the film, families as well as individuals are looked upon as sexually stupid. They needed sexual activity, and we see their breath-giving colorization resulting from being suddenly really alive. The writers must have been writing about themselves...



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Still, I found the piece irrelevent and preachy.

I found the movie obnoxious as well. But I don't understand. What can you possibly find preachy about Pleasantville? That everyone was dumb back then?

Chronological Snobbery, perhaps.
(q.v. earlier discussion of same)

I feel like they were making the allusion that there are people who are still too repressed and moral, and live life in black and white, so to speak, and a fifties sitcom was the symbol for that. Then I sit and wonder... who? who in this day and age is like that at all? middle america? the right? who? Thats at least what I sensed.

The Brady Bunch movie was funny in a really surreal way, because the Bradys were not only living in 1972, but in an artificial version thereof, where the rest of the world made them look like from another planet!

My vote would probably go to the film 'Crash'.
Any movie that dares to show human actions and emotions in a no-baloney way is always dangerous. When you watch the movie, you cannot imagine someone actually WRIITING the thing. The writer is invisible. The movie just IS, and that is why I think it is 'dangerous'.

If you have not seen it, you should.

Dangerous? Hmmm. I'd say any movie that not only portrays opinion or an agenda as fact (like Oliver Stone or Michael Moore or Al Gore films - and I would add "Back To The Future" to these), but counts on the lamentable ignorance of young Americans as regards actual history; thereby creating a generation that believes these "documentaries" to be historical - with all the ensuing cultural consequences!

Extremely good and thoughtful choice there.