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Pleasantville
1998 · Film · 124 min
Directed by Gary Ross
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
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I feel like this is one of those prescient movies like Pleasantville and Idiocracy we should force voters to watch again before voting.
> The 80s and 90s will forever be stuck in lousy low resolution.
You are off by few decades though. 35mm film photography and cinematography was still dominating until the end of 90s. Nikon D1 and Canon 1D were released in 1999 and 2001 respectively, and Star Wars EP2 in 2002 was notably first major movie recorded with digital cameras. Pleasantville (1998) and O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000) were early examples of using digital intermediates.
> It's that I've drawn a different conclusion
You've drawn the wrong conclusions, evident by you leading your argument with "pedo guy".
> The fact that he works as many hours as he claims isn't a good thing.
Good is too vague. Good for what? It's probably not good for his general well being. But then neither is sitting and watching Netflix. Long hours is necessary to achieve his goals as he has laid out for Tesla and SpaceX. And not just for him, for everyone who works at those companies.
> It's not good that he has had so many romantic partners
That's his private business. You should perhaps look into swinging. That may broaden your horizons about what is good and isn't in respect to number of romantic partners.
> it isn't good that he has so many kids that he clearly isn't raising
He's raising them better than 99.9% of parents out there (and he better, given the resources he has).
> it isn't good that he is publicly so out of balance
That doesn't mean anything!
> It isn't good that he now is facing sexual misconduct allegations.
So did Assange, and then they dropped it. An allegation by itself is not a proof of anything. It is however a very good signal that someone is either getting too famous, too powerful and nothing else has worked to stop them.
> None of those things are respectable.
None of the things you listed are valid or of any significance.
> None of those things are OK for a role model to be modeling.
He's led people to do their beyond best effort to achieve things that have been deemed impossible over the last 20 years, and made the world better for everyone. That's what you should be paying attention to, not his number of romantic partners.
> We need to stop idolozong people for simply being rich and famous and good engineers
He's rich and famous, because he's a visionary and a leader. The fact that you think people idolize him for being "rich" is yet ANOTHER clear evidence that you know little of him. You're basically equating Musk with Kardashians.
> Elon isn't a good human.
Watch the movie Pleasantville. :)
There is a huge difference between positive news, and news represented with an overly positive tone.
A new tech/drug/math/specie/dino bone is, to me, positive news. It don't need the reporter to scream "awesome" and add kittens when presenting it.
The problem is not positive news. It's that the US is becoming a parody of a 1960 sitcom, like in the excellent movie "Pleasantville", where everything is "fantastic".
Everybody is "so excited" about their new project, or "passionate" about their work. Their "best friend" is "amazing".
Everybody wants to hype up everything, and there is no more space for appreciating reality as it is. You can't say chicken wings are breath taking. What will be left to talk about your greatest achievements or the birth of you child ?
This is what depresses people.
Not positive news.
MTV just kind of blends in with every other white middle-upper class neighborhood in America, it is as bland as off-brand vanilla ice cream to the end of blunting your senses. To a lot of people living in such a place is a huge mark of success... to many other people, that is the environment they grew up in and are trying to escape. See also: the movie Pleasantville.