Pleasantville

In the movie the two main characters are polar opposites at the beginning. When they show Pleasantville on TV it is seen as really appealing because of Toby Mcguire's character. You see his own life and it's pretty pathetic. He can't find the courage to talk to the girl he likes, his parents are always fighting, and his sister is for lack of better words a slut. He doesn't have to deal with all that when he's watching Pleasantville, though. He is enthralled by it and he knows everything about it. It's seen as the perfect life. Once him and Reese Witherspoon's character get sucked into the TV, you start to see the downside to the show. Everything is so repetitive it eventually becomes boring and just plain weird. Even though everything is seen as perfect, none of the people know anything and they are afraid of anything that's different. The scene in the bowling ally is a perfect example of this. It can be seen as the grey people vs the colored people.