Kandace Eck
Formal Assignment #3 Movie Argument
English 101 TR 8:00 a.m.
Brittany Rigdon
4/30/2013
Pleasantville is an entertaining movie with a good message. It has an obvious message
that reality was very different from what was shown in the ‘50s black-and-white TV shows and
that everything was not as perfect as they want to make us think they were. John J Puccio, critic
for Movie Metropolis, has it right when he says “In retrospect, the Fifties may have seemed like a
time of supreme innocence, high moral standards, and strong family values, but the film reminds
