I forget what a great movie Pleasantville is. Okay, it’s a little over-obvious at times, though I’m passive enough that most of the obviousness actually surprised me the first time (“Coloreds”! Of course!). But allowing for that, it’s still a great movie. More than that, though, it’s a movie that I’d want to shape people’s moral and philosophical outlook, like Pratchett’s Discworld books. (That may be the oddest set of fiction ever selected for a moral framework…) The single sentence “It’s not supposed to be anything,” could spare a lot of people a lot of grief, if they believed it, I suspect.

At any rate, if you haven’t seen it, you probably should. You won’t like it as well as I do, though; I’m pretty good at telling when I like things idiosyncratically, and I think this is one of those cases.

(Also, thing I never noticed before: The role of Random Teenager #38 is played by Buffy’s Jonathan. Huh!)