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Pleasantville When "90s popular culture collides with 50s values, chaos results," reads the film promo, but what really happens when 90s values collide with our popular culture representations of the 50s? In order to discern this puzzling question we must first understand what were the 90’s values. The nineties was unlike any decade before it. It was a time of libral mindedness and expementation. The nineties was so libral that Lawyer Daniel Foley filed suit in Hawaii on behalf of gay couples in pursuit of same-sex marriage. A lower court rejected the suit but in 1993 the Hawaii Supreme Court reinstated it. In the society that we live in today we would just regard this as every day occurrence and not be at all surprised. This is because our generation is very tolerant to all corners of society. Things that did come, as a shock however was the Sex scandal of the Clinton administration in the late nineties. Bill Clinton was ultimately acquitted of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. The point is that what happened in the nineties would have shocked the fifties but instead it came as a commonplace to the nineties decade. The more the generation of the nineties saw these atrocities the more they became commonplace