Truman is adopted from birth and grown up with a fake family, when he grows older into an adult he becomes restless and suspicious of the events around him. Like giant pieces of pruduction falling from the ‘sky,’ to picking up a radio frequency describing his every move.
I think The Truman Show is an excellent film, Jim Carrey carried the film tremendously because of his superb acting and a huge amount of emotion as the character Truman.
In one scene Truman’s wife is arguing with Truman, the camera changes to a spy look from Trumans wife, this showed how detailed the cameras were and gives the impression how complex reality-T.V can be.
An exciting scene is the storm sequence, it showed Truman attempting his escape plan by dodging cameras out of his home, and onto a boat and out to sea. Christof (Ed Harris) is shown to be controlling the waves and storm and puts Truman in serious danger.
Truman is shown to be thinking of a girl written out of his life, although Truman doesn’t know, she was an actor who tried to tell Truman the truth the truth, but was forcefully fired.
The film explored imprisinment, the idea that we are all controlled, isolation and loneliness, how it feels to be seperated from the world, and betrayel, because of Truman’s friend who has lied since he was 7, not to mention his other friends and family, who are all actors.
The Truman Show relates to the genre of reality T.V, which has angered much of the T.V audience and community. A good of example of this is Big Brother, which broadcasts a group of people in a house and are not allowed to leave it and are deprived of certain activities. Ed T.V is similar to the Truman Show. It tells the story of a man followed by a camera crew for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He at first likes the attention, but then becomes worn out by the intense media intrusion. I think that these types of films started to be made on the late 90’s because it deals with a question a lot of people have been thinkign of, Are we all being controlled in some way?
I think people who like to watch serious films would enjoy this, because it deals with aspescts and themes of life.
People who are Jim Carrey’s comedy fans would like this film, because it shows the other aspects and talents of an actor, which all good actors should have. Compared with his role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Carrey shows more of his Oscar winning potential, although ironically he didn’t get an Oscar on this occasion.
By Sanjay Gambhir
