Pleasantville (1998) does such a beautiful, insightful job of depicting how people and societies struggle with change, and most especially how the only real path forward comes from truly caring about the people whose lives are made better by the forward progress.
Pleasantville shows how opening minds and moving forward is best facilitated by reading books and embracing new forms of art, and that while those things may get stigmatized for a while, eventually the changes they bring will touch everyone, and there’s no way back.
I always liked Pleasantville, but it hits differently after seeing so many people lose their minds over AI and the new colors it adds to the world.
They just want their dinners.
“Nothing went wrong. People change.”
— Pleasantville (1998)