“This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.”

— Gary Ross

On his film Pleasantville (1998), as quoted in Review of Pleasantville by Edward Johnson-Ott http://www.imdb.com/reviews/149/14904.html
Context: This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.

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“An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.”

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Speech on the Emancipation of South America http://www.bartleby.com/268/9/5.html, House of Representatives (24 March 1818); The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory

“Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"…It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed…None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.”

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“Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/freeway-1997 of Freeway (24 January 1997)
Reviews, Three-and-a-half star reviews

“This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.”

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