The other day while over a friend’s house we started watching the movie Pleasantville. At first I thought it looked terrible and was actually about to leave when I realized that the whole movie was based on the functionalist perspective of sociology.
The movie was about a brother and sister from the 90’s who get zapped into the 50’s television show Pleasantville where everything is perfect and nothing ever goes wrong. Throughout the movie their ideas contaminate the people and things are no longer so pleasant. What we see in the end though is that even the things that seem terrible actually serve a function in the way that things work.
One of the most obvious symbols in the movie is that when people do something that they normally wou
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