J.T. Walsh plays the bad guy. He's chairman of the commerce committee and invites David's father to join. The emblem for their club is a very freemason-looking handshake. The committee comes up with some rules such as no color paintings, and dinner should always be ready when the husband gets home. They smash the place up.
Book burning is next.
We'll live a lacklustre life of ignorance and will never experience the millions of different challenges and experiences awaiting us outside Pleasantville. There's no progress without curiosity, there's no changing the status quo without an opinion, there's no beauty without art, there's no love without fear of rejection.