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Pleasantville the movie directored by Gary Ross showed the audience two worlds: The 1950’s and the 1990’s. In both these worlds to begin with values of the societies differed greatly. David and his sister Jennifer environment was a wholesome place with small-town values, solid families, low crime rates, conformity and continuity. Everyone was always smiling, moral, and saccharine. David is overwhelmed by the complexity and difficulties of life. He lives in the modern world of divorce and drama, of overcrowded classrooms and dangerous people. His high-school classes drum in the "facts" that there will be no good jobs aft