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[Nymphae]

Blackpilled produces some excellent content. I have seen some of his videos before but I was unaware that he also has a website that contains very excellent write ups of his videos, with images.

I thought this was a pretty good critical look at Pleasantville, here's the write up if you don't feel like watching the video but are interested.

A few lines from the introduction:

As much as the baby boomers fought to overturn, and rebel against, (and eventually destroy), the American culture that existed before them, one thing that I have always found interesting is how much these same champions of the counterculture that sadistically dismembered their heritage and mocked every tradition their parents had gifted them would at the same time romanticize this very culture they worked so hard to undo. In the 1980’s and 90’s there was a flurry of television shows and movies that seemed to acknowledge a yearning for something. There was a not so quiet acknowledgement of a loss that nobody could put their finger on and a bitter regret that was much more than what could be explained away by the phenomenon of nostalgia.

It must have been terrifying indeed for the baby boomers, standing over the corpse of this lost culture, the murder weapon still in their hands dripping with blood, as generation X, dazzled by this wonderful paradise that so starkly contrasted the reality they knew, began to slowly piece together what it was that had happened. So, out of self preservation, the baby boomers, fearing what would happen if they didn’t, decided to hide the body.

The movie Pleasantville was part of that disinformation campaign. The campaign weaponized against generation X.

The boomers...told generation X that the 1940’s and 50’s, despite what it might look like on TV, was really a nightmarish hellscape full of misogyny and patriarchy, oppressive Christianity, and worst of all, whiteness. The baby boomers often explained how they had brought revolution, and “fought the man,” and now these times were the real utopia.

Watch the video

 

[Tesseract]

danke, will watch during apex

 

[IntentionalPun]

Those quotes are just ridiculously silly at face value to me; generations aren't monoliths of people.... and a single person wrote, produced, and directed Pleasentville.. guess he ran the disinformation campaign of these 75 million people?

 

[Nymphae]

Those quotes are just ridiculously silly at face value to me; generations aren't monoliths of people.... and a single person wrote, produced, and directed Pleasentville.. guess he ran the disinformation campaign of these 75 million people?

Watch the video?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I can’t think of Pleasantville without that old ass stand-up comedian (forgot his name) who said “this that movie where a bunch of white people learn about fucking?”

 

[Vengrim]

He had me interested for a bit and wanted to see where he was going with it but when he got to satanism, I clocked out.

I was midway through some counterpoints about how his analysis was off and about how Pleasantville is the opposite of what he was trying to argue when something in his phrasing struck me as funny. (I can't believe I'm actually writing this) This guy is an alt right loon. He talks in the video about seeing through the propaganda when spreading propaganda is all he is doing.

Hoping I was wrong, I googled him to see if maybe there was some info out there that might show him in a different light. I found his website which just reinforced my initial observation. I didn't read all the articles but it was clearly garbage. One article is just a thinly veiled attempt at saying African Americans need to be exterminated.

 

[JSoup]

Every time I'm reminded of Pleasantville, I'm also reminded of how dumb Dr. Laura is. She read a synopsis of the movie (she had never seen it) on radio, a moment of silence and then said the world should have gone back to black and white after those know-it-all-kids left. You know, completely missing the point of the damn movie.

 

[Tesseract]

not bad, learned a lot of this in high school film class

race stuff loses me, i almost always tune out whenever the agenda tilts that way

people try to memory hole and zero fill their pasts all the time; destroying themselves, friends, family, whatever

it's especially destructive when you start to think that those who want certain things to unchange want no change at all

(the world we need is a world of mercy and decency, but change will take care of itself)

 

[BEERBEER]

If you enjoyed it, you should really look into the analysis/observation on the corporate culture around OFFICE SPACE.

 

[TheGreatYosh]

Watch the video?

He's too busy thinking about gender swapped male celebs.

 

[Scotty W]

He had me interested for a bit and wanted to see where he was going with it but when he got to satanism, I clocked out.

The way he presented this point hurt his argument. He seems to be connecting the film with Laveyan Satanism, but does not seem to be aware that the film is in many ways an inverted retelling of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. This brand of Satanism is much different.

By the way, I am not saying that the author of the film is basing it on Paradise Lost- but rather a reading if the Genesis story very heavily influenced by Paradise Lost, which is a bit surprising for a Jewish writer.

Anyhow, I have always liked Pleasantville, and I enjoyed this video as well.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

This is probably the most discussion Pleasantville has ever received and that includes the initial release. I remember that movie being pretty bland and having a so-so reception. When I watched it, the main gimmick of everyone turning color wore off about midway through the movie and I kept thinking, “Just hurry up and turn color already!”

It was a nothing-burger of a movie when it came out. And this guy’s writing a dissertation on it

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Oh and as far as the video goes, I made it a minute and half in before the dude’s delivery got on my last nerve. I feel like one out of every 5 or 6 YouTube commentators do this. They speak in “Schatner-ese” They pause in mid sentence for dramatic effect.

I hate that. No one talks like that in real life. Not even William Shatner.

 

[synchronicity]

Most everyone has a sense of nostalgia for their youth, regardless of its content. There is an energy attached to youth itself that amplifies connection to life. But change is an inevitable constant. I see no villain.

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a watch later.

 

[Scotty W]

Oh and as far as the video goes, I made it a minute and half in before the dude’s delivery got on my last nerve. I feel like one out of every 5 or 6 YouTube commentators do this. They speak in “Schatner-ese” They pause in mid sentence for dramatic effect.

 

[Pagusas]

Most everyone has a sense of nostalgia for their youth, regardless of its content. There is an energy attached to youth itself that amplifies connection to life. But change is an inevitable constant. I see no villain.

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a watch later.

Exactly, I grew up in the late 80's/90's, I have heavy nostalgia for that time, those were the "good ol days". Music was good, the world still had magic in it, and life felt free and open. Thats all because it was being looked at with my innocent youthful eyes. To others the 90's were a dumster fire of change and badness.

I think we all yearn for the world to have magic in it, to not be so defined by rules and negative thoughts and "the reality of things". Thats what it means when we lose our innocence though, something everyone goes through (some later or earlier than others though)

 

[synchronicity]

Exactly, I grew up in the late 80's/90's, I have heavy nostalgia for that time, those were the "good ol days". Music was good, the world still had magic in it, and life felt free and open. Thats all because it was being looked at with my innocent youthful eyes. To others the 90's were a dumster fire of change and badness.

I think we all yearn for the world to have magic in it, to not be so defined by rules and negative thoughts and "the reality of things". Thats what it means when we lose our innocence though, something everyone goes through (some later or earlier than others though)

What happens to us in the "loss of innocence" is that we become burdened with the mind, weighed down too heavily with fears and desires born from pleasures and pains. When young, we are in the moment mostly - experiencing the unfolding of life without the burden of unnecessary attachment, not full of anticipation and/or dread. We are open. In that openness, we are free to fully experience.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Ummmm okaaay

 

[Scotty W]

Ummmm okaaay

Simply illustrating the point you made about unbearable youtubers.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Watch the video?

Maybe if I have time. Your snippets didn't sell me on it being anything but garbage though.

*shrug*

 

[IntentionalPun]

Most everyone has a sense of nostalgia for their youth, regardless of its content. There is an energy attached to youth itself that amplifies connection to life. But change is an inevitable constant. I see no villain.

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a watch later.

Yeah I think that depends on your youth.

I had my nostalgia beaten and abused out of me, I am the least nostalgic person I know. My life got exponentially better as soon as I was old enough to move out, and has only really improved since.

 

[Nymphae]

Maybe if I have time. Your snippets didn't sell me on it being anything but garbage though.

*shrug*

Don't watch it if the topic doesn't interest you, I don't care lol

 

[IntentionalPun]

Don't watch it if the topic doesn't interest you, I don't care lol

Oh you care, I just KNOW IT.

LIVING RENT FREE IN YOUR HEAD NOT WATCHING HAHAHAHA!

j/k

 

[synchronicity]

Yeah I think that depends on your youth.

I had my nostalgia beaten and abused out of me, I am the least nostalgic person I know. My life got exponentially better as soon as I was old enough to move out, and has only really improved since.

Well, that's why I said most everyone. And I'm sorry for your rough upbringing. Mine wasn't the most pleasant either, but it was far from the horror show that some, including yourself apparently, have endured. Surely it's not easy to be nostalgic for an abuse-ridden life.

 

[Djau]

Go back to a time of the 'nuclear family', excessive racism and classism, jesus freaks and all? Oooft.

 

[Nymphae]

Go back to a time of the 'nuclear family', excessive racism and classism, jesus freaks and all? Oooft.

lol ok boomer

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Simply illustrating the point you made about unbearable youtubers.

Except the guy you illustrated was not as bad. LOL. I'd probably agree with you on an average day, though. Blackpill guy is way way worse.