The Truman Show

THE TRUMAN SHOW

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  The Truman Show is a comedy-drama with Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone. The film chronicles the life of a man who is unaware that he is living in a constructed reality television show, broadcasted around the clock to billions of people across the globe. Truman becomes suspicious of his perceived reality and embarks on a quest to discover the truth about his life. It was written by Andrew Niccol and directed by Peter Weir.

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  This film, in my humble opinion is one of the most interesting films of the late 90's. At first glance of the poster, I thought that it would be a standard Jim Carrey comedy flick and with its colorful cinematography and its cheesy music, that was exactly what it was to me on my first viewing when I was around the age of 9. Not that there's anything wrong with that as Carrey is excellent in those types of movies. The Truman Show is not like that though, this movie is actually somewhat dark and eerie and it really makes you think and question reality. This movie can be seen as a modern adaptation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave in the sense that Truman is the prisoner and the cave is represented by the town he's living in and he only knew what he was being fed to believe.

  I'm not going to spoil the movie any further for you guys (another way of saying I'm just lazy to keep going) so I really recommend watching it for yourselves. I guarantee you will not be disappointed....or maybe you will be, as movies are subjective after all.

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