Paradise In Pleasantville

What would happen if you the only emotion you felt was pleasant? What if there was nothing else but pleasantness? This is what the movie Pleasantville tries to present to the viewer. Pleasantville is based off the very old story adam and eve. Adam and Eve, is basically the story of how humans became who they are today. Pleasantville takes certain ideals from adam and eve and brings them to the present, through a story about two teens sucked into an old tv show. Although gary yoss (director of pleasantville) reuses the idea of knowledge and paradise from the story of adam and eve, the transformation of whether knowledge is a good or bad thing and the idea that paradise is not what it seems ultimately leads to an idea of individuality that is justified.
One of the biggest similarities between pleasantville and Adam and Eve would be a paradise. The idea of a paradise is somewhere full of happiness, delicious foods, beauty, etc. Pleasantville shares the idea of a perfect place with Adam and eve (but does add its own twist to it). Another similarity between the two works would be the corruption of a
In Adam and Eve, knowledge was basically a sin and the root of all evil. But in pleasantville, knowledge was very good and let people be themselves. Another big difference that is very important is the gender switch on who Adam and Eve portray in pleasantville. Adam is represented by Jennifer, and Eve is represented by David. Eve wanted to change by eating the fruit, which is analogized in pleasantville because david eats fruit that margaret gives him. This shows david being tempted to eat the fruit like eve did. In the beginning Jennifer is wild but starts to live by rules and to respect them, which Adam always did in the story. As you can see by the end, jennifer starts reading books, studying for quizzes, not going out with friends. This is represented as Adam is very obedient to the