The If and Pleasantville films both share a setting in an ideal place to demonstrate truth quests. If takes a place in a British boarding school for boys where it seemed traditional, well organized and a perfect place to learn cooperation and discipline, yet it revealed self-destructive seeds. Whereas Pleasantville on the other hand is set in a fictional society where every person is pleasant with no curiosities, doubts, and enlightenments. The weather in Pleasantville is also always pleasant. Both places played important roles to develop characters’ conflicts and showed changes which would inspire audiences to think about truth quests in their own life.
In addition, both of these movies contained political significance of subculture and their movement of countercultures. When the flow of the mid-1950s; oppression of imagination, freedom, and dreams triggered the social criticism and it affected schools and work. The government had no interest in individuality and unfortunately it …show more content…
However, their methods of seeking freedom is very different from each other. For example, “One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place”. This is a direct quote from Malcolm McDowell as Michael Arnold “Mick” Travis in If. It represents rabid characteristics of Mick and his friends, rebellions attempting desperate bids; including shooting guns and breaking disciplines for freedom in public schools. Interestingly, this quote also reminds me of the root of World War Ⅰ. Initially, World War Ⅰ was caused by the death of Austro-Hungary’s heir to the throne. By the death of this one person, there were many casualties that followed and the world was forever changed. On the other hand, Pleasantville depicted relatively a gentle process of how a big change can be made. It described vividly on people’s fear toward the newness and changes, yet it also allowed audiences to sympathize with its
In addition, both of these movies contained political significance of subculture and their movement of countercultures. When the flow of the mid-1950s; oppression of imagination, freedom, and dreams triggered the social criticism and it affected schools and work. The government had no interest in individuality and unfortunately it …show more content…
However, their methods of seeking freedom is very different from each other. For example, “One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place”. This is a direct quote from Malcolm McDowell as Michael Arnold “Mick” Travis in If. It represents rabid characteristics of Mick and his friends, rebellions attempting desperate bids; including shooting guns and breaking disciplines for freedom in public schools. Interestingly, this quote also reminds me of the root of World War Ⅰ. Initially, World War Ⅰ was caused by the death of Austro-Hungary’s heir to the throne. By the death of this one person, there were many casualties that followed and the world was forever changed. On the other hand, Pleasantville depicted relatively a gentle process of how a big change can be made. It described vividly on people’s fear toward the newness and changes, yet it also allowed audiences to sympathize with its