At the end of Picnic Madge packs her bags and leaves town to follow Hal Inges desire to portray young love as sexually charged and rebellious revealed an America hidden behind the perfect world so often depicted in 1950s entertainment a world that would further reveal itself in the films music and plays of the coming decades While ignoring the realities of the Cold War the Korean Conflict and other prevalent threats of the era television and film generally tried to convey American life as roman