Film Techniques in Pleasantville

Also the lack of knowledge is one of the main reasons that make the utopian world not the most ideal place to live in. Firstly in the book, Jonas knows nothing about the community. He goes to school pointlessly, until he is twelfth and gets allocated for a task or assignment. On the other hand, if Jonas was not assigned to be the receiver, he will know nothing about the community and knowledge therefore he will live pointlessly.

When Jonas has his first lesson with the previous receiver, he notices something about colour. Something different to his friend’s hair. Then today, just now, outside, it happened with my friend Fiona. She herself didn’t change, exactly. But something about her changed for a second. Her hair looked different. After Jonas went to the giver for a few times, he starts to see something beyond which is colour. The community did not teach Jonas or other people about colour because they are afraid that discrimination would happen between them. If people start to see colour, discrimination might occur and that will spread all over the community which make it not prefect anymore. The community can not change the genetic code within the human body, so there is difference between everybody. By not teaching or telling their citizen about colour, they will not notice the odds. Which will keep the utopian world functioning. The lack of knowledge makes the utopian world not an ideal place to live in because the community choose what to teach their citizen. And they choose it because it will make their work easier. Furthermore in Pleasantville, Mary Sue taught her mother about sex which apparently her mother knows nothing about sex and relaxing.  Mary told her mother about sex when she got home. Her mother was listening with a lot of curiosity. Mary Sue told her mother about sex and how to relax. The lack of opinion makes the Pleasantville world not an ideal place to live in because they did not consider their citizen’s will.  They choose what they should know about instead of putting their destination on other people else.

Those two texts both taught us about that knowledge is not a thing that everyone can choose to know about in a utopian world. Moreover, they did not stand a chance to choose what they want to know because they know nothing besides what the community had taught them which makes this utopian world not the most ideal place to live in.

Finally the lack of privacy also makes the utopian world not the most ideal state to live in. Firstly In the book “The Giver”, all the citizen living in the community have no real privacy. Doors is just a furniture or to make the house more dissent instead keeping people out who wants to come in before Jonas are assigned to the receiver, no doors use to have lock. When Jonas first arrived his working place with the present receiver, his assistant need to unlock the door to let Jonas In which is a very new thing to Jonas. She Smiled, pushed a button, and he heard a click that unlock the door on her left. “You may go right on in,” she told him. Then she seemed to notice his discomfort and to realize its origin. No doors in the community were locked, ever. None that Jonas knew about. Doors are meant to keep the people living in the house safe and keep the strangers outside and have their own privacy. Moreover, as Jonas was thinking, No doors in the community were locked, every. None of that he knew of. Which means the citizen living in that community are already used to the environment without privacies. The point of privacy is that people can keep what they are doing to themselves or to have secretes. Because it is a utopian world, no one have secretes or privacy. No one has something to hide from the community. They are live not to lie; they are live with doors without locks. This is how the people in that community grow up with so they are unaware of lies, theft and privacies. The lack of privacy is one of the main reasons that make the utopian world not the most ideal place to live in. Furthermore, the movie “Pleasantville” also proofs that the lack of privacies is one of the main reasons that make it not the most ideal environment to live in. when Bud and his friend started to turn into colour, they need to hide form the others. The others crash the burger store, destroy the painting. Finally they make up some rules for the coloured people and the black & white people. Every thing is restricted, even the music that they want to listen, or the book they want to read. Bud got the notice from the officer of the rule to agree about living together. Due to any reasons, privacies should remain and belong to everyone else in the world. That shows that the officer want to take control of every thing else and keep it the same when it first started. So he decided to eliminate people’s privacy. In the book “The Giver” and the Film “Pleasantville”, they all provide evidence that the lack of privacy is one of the main reason that make a utopian world not the most ideal place to live in. In the book, all doors Jonas knew about were not locked and in the film, people are limited to listen to the certain music. The two text both bring out the same massage that privacies is vital to human

Because they both put the community’s future before the citizen’s instead of the other way around. Both the book and the film show us that because of the lack of privacy also make the utopian world not the most ideal place to live in

The utopian world is not the most ideal place to live in for many reasons, the lack of choice, the lack of knowledge and finally the lack of privacies. These are only few of the main reasons that make the utopian world not the most ideal place to live in. To be general, it is because the community eliminate the most basic human rights, of the citizen the choices that people want to make, the knowledge that people want to learn about and the secrets that people want to keep to themselves.

Although a utopian world might look perfect because there are not conflict going on, every one is successful, no worries. On the other hand, we must consider the things that you have to sacrifice if you want to live in a utopian world. The choice all depends on you and to make the own choice that is the best to yourselves.