wolven7 | Insane Ramblings on Fictional Works

Miles Davis - [Take Five]--- By the way, in the movie Pleasantville, am i the only one disturbed by the fact that they Never address the fact that the daughter Stayed in the Television? She stays there, he goes home, the mother never says anything about it. Really, any explanation, at all, will do.

Nellie McKay - [Work Song]--- Tell me she doesn't Exist, outside of tv, anymore. Tell me that Pleasantville now Exists, in the Real World. Shit, tell me that the mother did ask, but he said "She stayed in the TV, Mom," and she was like "What?" And he said "Yeah, see, we got transported into the tv, and we were In Pleasantville, and we changed things, and she stayed there to go to college," and then she'd be all horrified, like "Oh my fucking god, you killed your sister and buried her in the woods," and then you'd see him in the mental institution. Just Explain it. Damn.

My only point is that, yeah, everything else is all neat and tidy, and everyone is pleased and there's that Unfinished quality to the whole thing, but there's something about the Question of "Wait, you're here, but where's your sister?" that just kind of Bugs.

And, yes, i'm analysing and picking at a piece of fiction, but i don't think that this is something that falls in the realm of suspension of disbelief. I think there could have even just been a "David, where's your sister?" and he'd have said, "Well, mom, that's a long story," and fade to the rest of the end sequence. (Nellie McKay - [Toto Dies]). Nothing lost. From now on, that's how it ended, in my mind.

Heheheh. Yeah.