No, wait! Maybe it was just a commercial product.
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movie review by: Louis Plamondon
There are things that most of human kind have in common. Family, friends, car, house, job. It's the American way of life that Truman Burbank (geniously played by Jim Carrey) has adopted. That's also what most of us have in our lives. How would you react when you discover that all of that is fake? Which means you have nothing in life? Except the fact that you are the most popular man in the universe. In other words, you're a commercial product. That's one of the visions of our society that The Truman Show wants us to see. The story begins at day 10909 of a live to the world broadcasting soap opera where the star, Truman, doesn't know he is. We can see that everything (except him) is Hollywood fake stuff. Then we discover two obsessions that are in the nature of Truman: His secret love for a high school girl who disappeared in Fiji Island, and his passion for traveling and exploring. Unfortunately, that's not what the creator of the show, Christof (Ed Harris) has planned for the show. That's why he tries everything make Truman forget his passions. (Some of these scenes includes funny stuff.) The fact is that the subtlety of the creators is pretty poor. And they also do a lot of mistakes on the set. This makes Truman starting to doubt about the world around him and developing paranoia (he couldn't expect how right he is). And as the proofs continue to show off in front of him, Truman decides to get away and to go right where his obsessions are. The movie, wonderfully directed by Peter Weir (Death Poets Society) makes us laugh, cry, but most of all, think. Carrey's character is similar to Tom Hanks's Forrest Gump. An honest man, with childish reactions and who doesn't know anything about what's going on around him. There are a lot of lessons of life in the flick. Maybe even more than the production team expected when they did it. First of all, when you are born to accomplish something and you really want it, nothing (even the biggest storms), nothing can stop you. It shows us also that you cannot control human emotions. Christof wanted Meryl (Laura Linney) to be Truman's love and created the most similar character for Truman so he can love. Unfortunately, his heart was for another cast member called Sylvia (Natasha McLehone) which wasn't expected by anyone. Another lesson is in the choice that Truman has to do at the end of the movie. It shows us that nothing (even fake perfection) is as good and exciting as reality... All those 20th century inventions such as Virtual reality, video games, Internet and most of all, television are just a way for people to hide their fear of real life. Why would you play baseball on a Nintendo when you can go with your friends in a field doing a real game? Because most of us are shy, of just don't want to get up and try. Spending his life in front of a TV set makes you a nobody. It entertains, but you have no life, dude! Anyway, some people also see in The Truman Show a kind of myth where the Christof is a god and Truman his creation. Just like in such famous stories as Frankenstein, we see that when the creator loses the control of his creation (when no more cameras can get Truman), he will try to eliminate it (the weather options). Also the fact that the society are too hungry about other people's private life. When you look at such publications as The National Inquirer of TV's Entertainment Tonight, you see how crazy we are to consume this. And I am sure there are a lot more meanings in Jim Carrey's masterpiece, which is also one of the smartest movies that Hollywood ever made...
movie review by: Louis Plamondon
http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/9090/truman.htm