Would you be unerved if you were taken to a 1950s Style Town where everybody is happy and everything is perfect?
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I'm a black woman so that would be a giant no thanks for me. I would absolutely be unnerved and freaked out and looking for a way outta there.
1950s sitcoms set in white suburbia had about as much in common with real life as Full House had in common with San Francisco in the late 80s/early 90s
These time travel threads might as well be tagged "White's Only"
Not putting any blame on you OP, it's just time travel to the past in the US is just inherently not too appealing if you're not a white dude
Not putting any blame on you OP, it's just time travel to the past in the US is just inherently not too appealing if you're not a white dude
Yup. I'm trying to get the fuck out asap. I don't want to stay for a drink, I don't want help with anything. I want nothing, and I trust NO ONE
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Yes i am Scottish. I will admit i don't know much about 50s suburban culture in the US outside what I've seen on TV.
Thinking on being transfered to a 50s sitcom would probably have worked better rather then being transported to the 1950s
The plot-twist is that all the people there are black aswell.
If it was filled by just white people, I'd worry. If it was JUST stylized as a 1950s town, but inhabited by diverse locals, all happy and there was no injustice to be found, maybe I'd be less suss. Though at that point, it would be like living in a dream. The 50s weren't perfect. They were a shitty time for certain people, but the idealized take on it, similar to an idealized take on the 80s, where you have similar pop cultural cues minus the racist, homophobic, mysogynistic crap, could be appealing to many different people, especially those without the luxury or privledge t experience such lifestyles (as in, middle to wealthy class, white, straight, Christian).
But yeah, as a person with brown skin, anytime I come across a town that's all white, I try to steer clear of it. A town all white, but literally living in the past... nothing good can come out of it. Like I said, a 50s fantasy town with a multi-racial/multi-cultural/LGBTQ+ friendly population that just lives in an idealized sense of the 50s, maybe interesting. An all white town stuck in the past of the 1950s... that's literally Trumpville!
But yeah, as a person with brown skin, anytime I come across a town that's all white, I try to steer clear of it. A town all white, but literally living in the past... nothing good can come out of it. Like I said, a 50s fantasy town with a multi-racial/multi-cultural/LGBTQ+ friendly population that just lives in an idealized sense of the 50s, maybe interesting. An all white town stuck in the past of the 1950s... that's literally Trumpville!
You are correct. My mom (born 1945) says that reality was nothing like we see on old TV shows and movies. In fact, she says that people would laugh and make fun of the Andy Griffith show and other similar "perfect 50s" media.
I think it's comparable to someone looking back at Friends and thinking that was a realistic look at New York life in the 90s.
If the town treats PoC as second class citizens and women are seen as nothing more than housewives, then no thanks.
As great as it may have played out on surface, the entire lifestyle was propaganda to push people into their roles, forget their WW2 trauma, and rev up capitalism.
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Truman Show is more of a hybrid. A town created from an amalgamation of different timeframes. It looks like it's from the '50s but everyone drives modern cars with modern radios in them. But at the same time I don't think TV exists in that world to make it easier to control Truman. (I mean how fun would it be to be watching a guy watching TV all day?) Since they controlled the narrative, they could decide what goes where and Truman wouldn't have any frame of reference. He probably didn't even know what a TV was. However if I'm wrong and TV did exist in that "world" then obviously Christof would control what is shown on it as well.
It's more like Pleasantville like people are saying. That movie is literally about modern '90s teens being absorbed into a stereotypical "perfect" '50s town.
Edit: That Experts movie sounds interesting. How have I never heard of it before? Is it any good?
Probably depends how 1950s style we're talking about. But generally yes, I've seen horror movies.
Yeah, I'm bla-
Oop, never mind, looks like I'm covered here.
I'd be creeped out a bit, and then if Mr Sandman started playing from somewhere I'd be even more creeped out.
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I might enjoy myself for a bit but then i would be like...this feels too artifical
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I wholeheartedly believe that quote Smith made. Our brains are logic calculators built for this specific purpose. Even if everything was perfect the human brain would thinking something is wrong because it needs a problem to solve.
I wholeheartedly believe that quote Smith made. Our brains are logic calculators built for this specific purpose. Even if everything was perfect the human brain would thinking something is wrong because it needs a problem to solve.
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Yep i think everyone would be a bit worried if everything seemed perfect on the surface