But as my son and I left the theater, we saw a scene that could have been Main Street in the film Pleasantville.
Red bricks pave the street.
Gary Ross's version of Pleasantville has to be taken as a fable. There are too many unexplained motives and twists. Once you have suspended your disbelief, however, Pleasantville is a pleasant diversion, one that is filled with delightful effects that generate fascinating ideas. I was concerned that Pleasantville would jump on the bandwagon of cop-outs that dismisses large parts of the past as inferior and incorrect. But the film is out neither to put down the past nor to pique our nostalgia.