i'm more curious to speculate as to what the idyllic lifestyle in the 2010s will be seen as in the future
like how our idea of idyllic 1950s USA was...well, basically Pleasantville's black-and-white segments. father with 9-to-5 office job, stay-at-home mom who happily serves the family's every need and has some leisure time, a daughter and a son who are in school, and a firefighter whose sole function is to rescue cats stuck in trees
y'know i was always impressed at how real that thing was
they literally had signs discriminating against "colored" persons in Pleasantville
in the film of course they meant people who weren't black-and-white but we know very very well what that exact same word means in real life U.S. history
that was a really really elegant and meaningful coincidence / choice of word
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like how our idea of idyllic 1950s USA was...well, basically Pleasantville's black-and-white segments. father with 9-to-5 office job, stay-at-home mom who happily serves the family's every need and has some leisure time, a daughter and a son who are in school, and a firefighter whose sole function is to rescue cats stuck in trees
and no colored people of course
they literally had signs discriminating against "colored" persons in Pleasantville
in the film of course they meant people who weren't black-and-white but we know very very well what that exact same word means in real life U.S. history
that was a really really elegant and meaningful coincidence / choice of word