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** And in some cases, to avoid [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]. For example, ''[[Pleasantville]]'' was quite blunt in its message of "The good times you felt in your childhood were not as great as you think they are." This is because if it weren't obvious, a lot of its audience would see the idyllic [[The Fifties|50s]] [[Suburbia]] [[Sitcom]] setting as something to strive for because life is so peaceful and innocent, rather than the sterile, meaningless, and stagnant world that it was.
*** [[Your Mileage May Vary|That's you're opinion]]. The '50s may be portrayed too nostalgically, but right now can be described as crude, shallow, meaningless, and (if the entertainment industry is any indication) increasingly unimaginative (read: boring as hell).
*** Here's the thing: it didn't work. Yes, ''Pleasantville'' was blunt, but if the intention was to keep people from thinking the fifties were great and feeling nostalgic for them anyway, well, some did that anyway and just complained the movie got it wrong. That's exactly why this trope is so pointless... you can turn your point into a giant anvil and smash people in the face with it all day long, but if they were going to get it they didn't need the anvil, and if they weren't going to get it the anvil's not going to work anyway.
** It mostly depends on how relevant it is to the real world and/or how strongly people feel about it. Oh, and how many people feel strongly about it.
** It's essentially intellectual masturbation. "I like this anvil! I agree with this anvil! So it was ''so important'' that it be dropped!" Generally, not really. Most of the uses of this trope on the wiki apply to differences of opinion or issues that are decades or even centuries out of date. It's basically the tropes opinion of a tumblr reblog saying "This is so important you guys".
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