If The Truman Show was ever made into a series, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Our fascination with reality TV and hidden cameras is brought to the forefront of allegory in this great comedy where a man's life is completely controlled and monitored by camera for the whole world to watch. Peter Weir is a genius for casting Jim Carrey who brings his various facial expressions and overacting to full advantage when he starts to notice weird things happening that wake him up to realize this whole world revolves around him. It's fascinating to hear that they filmed in this real town in FL instead of a set on the Universal lot which really gives it a fake feel yet you have this full town he can interact with. To me, it's the slow buildup of paranoia that we go through with Truman and the cuts to the people in the real world reacting to his emotion that really make this movie great. Using over 5000 hidden camera that follow him everywhere, it almost mirrors our current culture of paparazzi chasing movie stars around where we as an audience almost know what's happening before they do. The classical music gave me an almost silent movie feel at some points where we're only seeing him through the intentional lens techniques to make it look like the camera is in a radio, map, or pencil sharpener. The concept of this movie works because the world that's created for Truman is almost a hyper reality, designed as a movie within a movie so that it's almost undetectable to know what's real and what's fake. This idea of breaking out of your mold and knowing there is something greater out there is always a theme that i've been interested in as I continually find ways to just get away and find out who I am just like Truman.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Truman Show (1998) (Blu Ray) - 9/10
If The Truman Show was ever made into a series, I would watch it in a heartbeat. Our fascination with reality TV and hidden cameras is brought to the forefront of allegory in this great comedy where a man's life is completely controlled and monitored by camera for the whole world to watch. Peter Weir is a genius for casting Jim Carrey who brings his various facial expressions and overacting to full advantage when he starts to notice weird things happening that wake him up to realize this whole world revolves around him. It's fascinating to hear that they filmed in this real town in FL instead of a set on the Universal lot which really gives it a fake feel yet you have this full town he can interact with. To me, it's the slow buildup of paranoia that we go through with Truman and the cuts to the people in the real world reacting to his emotion that really make this movie great. Using over 5000 hidden camera that follow him everywhere, it almost mirrors our current culture of paparazzi chasing movie stars around where we as an audience almost know what's happening before they do. The classical music gave me an almost silent movie feel at some points where we're only seeing him through the intentional lens techniques to make it look like the camera is in a radio, map, or pencil sharpener. The concept of this movie works because the world that's created for Truman is almost a hyper reality, designed as a movie within a movie so that it's almost undetectable to know what's real and what's fake. This idea of breaking out of your mold and knowing there is something greater out there is always a theme that i've been interested in as I continually find ways to just get away and find out who I am just like Truman.
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