When “Forrest Gump” escaped “Pleasantville”

Excerpt from the Stories of Restoration Vol4 close to completion.

Outside of the original New Deal era (1929–1939) the cultural work of conceiving and voicing a healthy future for the 99% was ceded to corporate TV and its corporate sponsors. Forming-shaping cultural consensus was handed over to audio and visual entertainment corporations in league with corporate advertisers.

“Pleasantville” Sheeple Matrix

The 1998 movie, “Pleasantville,” artfully sums up the transition from traditional pre-WW I Culture to Post WW II Corporate Culture. In the movie, the town, Pleasantville, takes its look and feel from from the year 1955.

Pleasantvile, portrays the sameness of corporate culture clearly, by way of an visual metaphor. In the real 3D world of Pleasantville, everyone and everything appears in black and white, people see only in black and white.

Gary Ross and Steven Soderburgh use the flat, black and white culture of “Pleasantville” to represent the narrow, limited mental-emotional freedoms which boxed in placid consumers before 1958 (especially the McCarthy era).

Gradually color comes back into the film. How? Color only comes back one person at a time. One by one individuals wake up to…