jackandginger: Friday I'm in LOVE...with pastels

Today I have mostly been...falling in love! I have a very lovely boyfriend but this week has been all about pastel colours – I just can’t get enough ice-cream shades!

There is something about minty green, dusky pink and soft pastel yellow that makes me think of summer holidays, 1950s style prom dresses and the film Pleasantville.

If you haven’t seen it then it’s a great film where Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon find themselves transported to a 1950s American TV Show and become Bud and Mary Sue Parker.

Whilst they try to stay in character they can’t help but start to influence the characters in the show. Slowly the town begins to change from black and white to glorious colour as people start to experience passion and emotion. Some of the town’s elders begin a campaign to ban ‘coloured people’ from public venues, which starts a riot amongst the enlightened town residents.

Bud and the owner of the local diner paint a colourful mural to show the beauty of the colourful world and are arrested. Finally, one of the few black and white people left – the mayor – feels such strong anger about the changes to the town, the rebellious children and the independent thinking wives that he becomes colourful!