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Summary: Possibly The Most ORIGINAL Film Ever Made
Review: Brilliant, thought-provoking, paranoid, intriguing, amazing, original, well-acted, astonishing, incredible, perfectly-written, depressing, uplifting, inspired, provocative, earth-shattering, ground-breaking, and utterly phenomenal.
This film is an absolutely brilliant piece of paranoid cinematic art.
...and it is scary how realistic it is...could all life be fake? This film really makes you think about alot of things.
Truman is a man that lives in an artificially-created world, a giagantic, elaborate set for the most popular TV show ever created.
When Truman begins discovering the true nature of his world and remembering the love they tore away from him, he questions his entire life.
This film is an absolute must for anyone who loves the art of movies. Just incredible.
When you watch this, think about just creepily plausable it seems. How many times have you had weird things happen to you where you could nearly swear everyone was out to get you? Like they are all in on "it"?
See this film.
Just one question remains...
"How's it going to end?"
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Summary: The Ultimate Paranoid Fantasy
Review: For those of us who think that Hollywood studios are incapable of producing anything but loud, violent and mindless garbage (think "Gone in Sixty Seconds," but one could cite endless examples), "The Truman Show" is proof positive that great movies are still possible. Truman Burbank is a bright, imaginative 30-year-old account executive at an insurance company with a pretty blonde wife and a best friend who fills vending machines for a living. He lives on Seahaven Island, a near-perfect community where the sun shines and life is good. But Truman, like George Bailey in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," has the urge to explore. To see what's out there in the world beyond Seahaven Island. And, especially, to find out what happened to the beautiful girl he briefly loved and lost in his college days when she abruptly moved to Fiji. The truth is, of course, that his whole life is a lie. Truman's life, 24-hours-a-day, is a television show broadcast live and without commercial interruption to the entire world -- and has been from the minute he was born. It's the ultimate paranoid fantasy. They really *are* watching him. "The Truman Show," while playing with some interesting ideas about the nature of reality, is not a heavy, didactic film. It is both dramatic and, due to a brilliantly clever screenplay and the performance of Jim Carrey, surprisingly funny. I especially liked the luminous Laura Linney as Truman's put-upon wife, who finally cracks under the pressure of living with a man who's beginning to comprehend and question the faux-nature of his reality. Natascha MacElhone is oddly believable in the tiny but crucial role of the woman who loves Truman for who he really is. This DVD edition is pretty sparse -- no extra scenes, no extra commentary by the star, the writer or the director -- but it is definitely worth the price. While I would have liked to have heard director Peter Weir discuss, among other things, why Dennis Hopper was replaced in the role of Cristof (the "creator" of The Truman Show) by Ed Harris, the film itself is so good, so dense and so intriguing in its dramatic explorations of its themes and ideas that you can easily do without the extra goodies. My one peeve with the DVD is the stupid blimp that you have to sit through in order to access certain features. *That* I could have easily done without. While the 1990s were a pretty pathetic era in American filmmaking, I would nonetheless put "The Truman Show" alongside "Good Fellas," "Deconstructing Harry" and "Avalon" as one of the best mainstream films of the decade. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent, Wonderful Movie
Review: This is certainly one of the bests movies out there. The story is compelling, the characters are believable, the camera angles increadibly interesting and the music is simply breathtaking. The fil shows us the story of a man living a boring fantasy of safety and routine, and how he tries to escape from it. This movie, i believe, is open to many interpretations, which is what makes it so interesting. In my opinion, this movie is about a very, very old story: The Garden of Eden. The set in which Truman lives is his own Eden, although he doesnt know so. However, as the movie develops, we see that in this version of the story, it's not God who kicks Adan out of Eden, rather than try to stop him from leaving at all cost. The film is about the human spirit, his nature and his power to change things.
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Summary: Great shaw, very emotional
Review: If you haven't seen it yet, or just seen it on TV or cinema, just buy it, buy this excellent DVD.
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Summary: Sea Haven - An actual mirror of our todays media culture?
Review: Nothing is like it seems to be. The today media culture offers a lot of human stories in the TV-landscape. 24 hours of destinations, lies and Talkshows. Problem of every kinds of television-projects like soaps, talkshows or Big Brother is that it is reality, but every person plays a roll in this drama. So: what is the next step in the media culture? The Truman Show brings us to the next step. Real reality show. An interesting film about this future. Nice to see, but in the end a bit dry. Truman has to die on his way to step outside (t)his world. And the whole world keeps watching. And nobody helps. Thirty years Truman lived in this worls calles Seahaven. Nobody cares about his feelings. Only Sylvia. A good reflector of the modern media world. 90 percent egoism and 10 percent solidarity. Good shown in this movie. An Truman is only one example for this society-mirror. Problem of this film is only the fact, that it is a product of Hollywood too. A classical happy end story that keeps every shock from the viewer away. So it lost its thought provoking character.
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Summary: A recommended film
Review: A recommended film that shows the pressure of a person after personal freedom. Truman behaves like each normal person very naturally and without forced however after that several chances happen, like the crashing floodlight, he no longer believes that is all thing normally in his city. He wants out out of his regulated, protected and carefree life. He wants to be live that a maker before life. He wants to be decide alone and independent over his life. This film is therefore a wonderful illustration on that freedom urgent of each person.
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Summary: Jim Carrey proves what a versatile actor he is
Review: Directed by Peter Weir - that's a good thing to start with. If you're sceptical about Jim Carrey after all those silly movies he's done - rest assure, he proves that he can really act in this brilliant film. The film is a sad tale about a man unaware that his life is being broadcast on its own devoted channel (since he was born). He eventually discovers the truth and it leads to some interesting scenarios. It also makes you realise how bizarre Reality TV is, and how viewers can be so dependant on television to satisfy their own boring lives. DVD SUMMARY:
The print of this film is simply awesome, crystal clear with an impressive 5.1 soundtrack to boot - take note of the scene where the rain is falling on Truman (the sound is incredible in surround). The DVD is let down however by sad lack of extras - I mean, c'mon ... there must be some deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage? A trailer and teaser trailer is thrown in, so that's better than nothing. Aside from these issues, the movie is so fantastic, it's worth getting the DVD! A brilliant film!
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Summary: Interesting but unrealistic
Review: The movie tells the story of a young man who lifes in a closed world. Since he was born cameras follow his steps and on TV many people watch him every day and every minute. But he don't know. Until...
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I think....
The Truman Show is a new generation of film. I have never seen a film like that before. It has a special kind and after you look the film you think about it and thought if that could be real some day. After the second or third look, you will notice more and more details and understand more and more. But don't think the story is complex. It's a very nice satire with many good jokes and the right quantity of austere. And if we never hear again...
...good Afternoon, good evening and good night!
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Summary: Freedom Fighter
Review: The film deals with the human "need" to know what is going on behind someone elses curtains.
The plot centers around a man named Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey. Right from his beginnings (meaning his birth) he has been the subject of a TV show in which everyone he knows is not really who he thinks they are, but merely actors playing a role. He alone is unaware of this fact. He is broadcasted live and with an audience all around the world. The frightening thing about it is the fact that it worked perfectly for over 30 years, without the notice of its star. Nevertheless he someday discovers that something is happening around him, that certain things seem planned or fake. Truman has the courage to encounter the truth with knowing that his world could shatter. That is why I think it is not only the producers ambition to reveal what is possible in times of Reality TV, he also wants to show that it is our (the viewers) choice to watch it and support it or to go back to our own lives and experience them. Jim Carrey gives an excellent debut in non-comedian acting and makes the film worth looking.
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Summary: Where will this all end?
Review: When I saw the Truman Show for the first time, I liked the film, but it wasn't the best film I ever saw. The film shows the way Hollywood could work in future.
But there is one thing in this film I don't like, the film shows many people who are fans of the Truman Show and Truman himself, but there is only one person shown, Sylvia, who tries to help Truman out of this faked world. In my opinion it is not realistic, that there is no riot, when a babychild is addoped by a company.
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