Pleasantville a great movie that tells us that every person have the right to show their feelings or emotions. In the movie, the people in Pleasantville living according conservative values, but that they didn't really choose those values in the first place. I can see how some people would perceive it as merely another mouthpiece of liberalism, but I watched it twice, and I only noticed it attacking bigotry and censorship.
This movie is about to live life to the fullest -- to truly feel "alive" -- you need to take the good with the bad. Sweeping things under the rug and just acting "pleasant" all the time, is no way to live. That's what "Peter Parker" speech at the end to his mother. Bad things happen, it's part of life. Having passion brings with it positives and negatives -- but suppressing true feelings for the sake of "pleasantness" is an empty life.
Another thing people in Pleasantville are afraid to change that was happen from the start of time until the end. I know that it still happen in our time. That when we are afraid of certain things in ourselves, we show those fears onto other things. This film is about more than the way things were and how change is good. It's about the way we see ourselves inside and out. If life is dull and non-changing, then all you get is black and white (emo colors). "It can't stop at once, because it's in you, and you can't stop something that's inside you" -David. One of the famous quote in the movie Pleasantville. There is always something inside us that want to go out.
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