This phenomenon completely knocks the Pleasantville residents cuckoo. With David and Jennifer influencing the youngsters of the town, and eventually other townspeople, color is suddenly busting out all over. With Jennifer's 1990s' advice and Dr. Ruth-type sex tutelage, Betty is freed from repression and, in a remarkable bathtub masturbation scene, finds sexual release simultaneous with emerging in glorious color. In no time, she and Bill are getting it on, and Bill, an amateur artist, has placed a full-length nude painting of Betty in his store window. The parallel between color in Pleasantville and odious racial barriers is all too clear.
None knows any of the others.
The implication is that each of these soldiers of fortune was once affiliated with some secret spy agency or another, but for what- ever reason, has been cut off. In other words, there are people who don't want Dierdre and her people to have the case. Frankenheimer has put together two separate thrill-packed automotive chases through the tiny streets of rural Nice and over the boulevards of Paris that are simply the greatest I've ever seen. And, as you know, no action movie these days is complete without the obligatory car chase. You'll be surprised by the double-crosses, betrayals and reluctant heroism and even unselfish acts of buddyhood valor involved.