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Summary: Entertaining new plot.
Review: New plot to a story. Very good, well done. Plot was so good they could have been much deeper in the delivery than they were. Never the less found it to be different and entertaining.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!!
Review: THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT WONDERFUL MOVIE. IT WAS SMART AND IMPRESSIVE. JIM CARRY PLAYS A WONDERFUL CHARACTER. HIS FIRST SERIOUS ROLE PROVED TO BE HIS BEST! A MOVIE FOR ALL AGES. ONCE YOU SEE THIS MOVIE YOU'LL WISH YOU HAD SEEN IT IN THE THEATER! SISKEL AND EBERT GAVE IT TWO THUMBS UP; WELL DESERVED!
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Summary: Very good movie, very well made!
Review: This is one of the best movies I have seen in along time. When I walked out of the theater I thought it was as good as Titanic! This movie was very well made and it was nice to see Jim Carey in a serious role for once. He is a very good actor. I liked this movie even more because it was different then all the other movies. The plot was very interesting and different. I am so sick of movies about aliens and stuff blowing up!! When I saw this it was very different I think thats why I enjoyed it so much. Shame on the Academy Awards for not giving at least one Oscar for this movie. It deserves at least five! When this movie is available to buy, I will be the first in line.
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Summary: A COMPLETE PILE OF HORSE MANURE
Review: THIS IS THE WORST FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN, MABEYE THE WORST FILM OF ALL TIME. I WOULDN'T BLAME IT ALL ON JIM CAREY. HE DOES ALL HE CAN WITH A 2 DIMENTIONAL CHARCHTER. THIS IS NOT HIS TYPE OF ROLE - STRAIGTH ACTING THAT IS. THE SCRIPT IS NON EXISTENT. THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THE MOVIE IS WHEN THE CREDITS ROLE. : I THINK CAREY SHOULD STICK TO HIS TRUE DOMAIN COMEDY FILMS SUCH AS DUMB AND DUMBER, ACE VENTURA AND THE MASK.
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Summary: I like these paranoid movies
Review: Ever notice how the people who give a good movie like this one star have absolutely terrible punctuation and syntax? Ever heard of periods, guys? This was a very good, creepy, and visually stunning movie. Some of the subtle things are what makes it great. I definitely recommend many viewings of it, for you can't catch it all the first time. Jim Carrey proves he is a real actor and not just some rubberface. I hope his portrayal of Andy Kauffman is good.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: THIS FILM IS BRILLANT, TAKE MY ADVICE AND BUY IT NOW.I,VE GOT IT ON TIME CLOCK
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Summary: A surprising but great performance by jim carry
Review: Truman show is spellbounding!Its definitly the must see of the year!Jim carry gives a stunning performance!I think its a film for everyone to see I was very surprised that jim carry made a movie like this and played a dramatic charecter.He should of been up for the nomminee for best actor.Its got a terrific story line.
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Summary: Ingenious Film, expected more from DVD
Review: I was definatly expecting more from the DVD, but Paramount rushed it out. This film need some commentary, badly. And its got 2 trailers for extras. This is a low down dirty shame. The prostitution of Truman by a corperation continues.
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Summary: More than just social commentary about media saturation
Review: Well, it seems that most people who discuss this film focus on the blatant satirization (is that a word? well you know what I mean) of the media addiction of the present day TV generation. While in my view this is an aspect that is brilliantly presented, it seems that the movie works on many other layers that aren't being addressed. I'll just give brief examples: 1) Psychology--the use of Watson-esque Behaviorism to modify Truman's fear of water, not to mention Watson's bold statement that he could mold a person into a specifically predetermined type through constant behavioral manipulation. 2)Philosophy--actually there are a few different fields of study under this topic, probably most notably Existentialism and Solipsism, the belief that nothing beyond the self can be verified ("We believe the reality of the world we are presented with"). 3)Theology--the comparative power of a god over his subject--which has the real power? (You'll notice very deliberate Christian imagery in the film, starting with Christof's name). Well, that's all I can think of right now (4:05 AM) on a thematic level, but on a technical level let me just say that I think that this is the most deft and successful "meta-film" I've ever seen (don't know if that's a word either, but I'm utilizing the word in the same vein as "meta-fiction," which in a nutshell is a story that's self-reflexive). The fact that we can "see the strings," so to speak, and yet for the main character the strings are invisible and his reactions to them are genuine nicely adds fictional layers / structural complexity to the story, and much credit goes to Peter Weir's sure, subtle direction. I recall that film critic Roger Ebert lamented the fact that the audience knew that it was a television show from the get-go, which I guess meant that he wished that the audience saw the world through Truman's eyes. To this, I say that the fine critic somehow missed the boat here. We are supposed to know what is going on because we are meant to be implicated of being complicitous about his situation, along with the creators of the show, the audience in the bar, in the tub, and so on. Besides, from Jim Carrey's lovely, perfectly-pitched performance, we get a sympathetic, peripheral view of the sense of wonder which accompanies Truman's process of peeling the layers of his programmed existence (it's nothing less than a crime he wasn't nominated). Mr. Maltin states that the premise for this film wears thin after half an hour, that it is only a short-story's worth of material and that similar subject matter has been dealt with more successfully in Twilight Zone shorts. To this, I say that the awful critic predictably missed the boat here. Let me just say that no less than Vladimir Nabokov wrote a brilliant, densely textured novel around similar thematic material ("Invitation to a Beheading")--but I guess that would be going over Mr. Maltin's head. Actually--and I may be digging a bit too deep here--there may even be a Nabokov reference in the film itself, when Truman looks in the mirror and proclaims his soap-bar illustrated planet "Trumania." If you break it down phonetically, "true mania," it could be a reference to a malady of one of Nabokov's characters in the story "Signs and Symbols" who suffers from "referential mania," which is the belief that every detail in the world around him is part of a conspiracy against him. Well, maybe that's going a little too far, although I would be surprised if screenwriter Andrew Niccol isn't familiar with Nabokov's work. Anyway, these are just some of my thoughts on the movie, which--did I mention?--I think is pretty darn great (much better than the technically marvellous yet thematically rehashed Saving Private Ryan, the only nominated movie I've seen as of yet).
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Summary: "You never had a camera in my head!" - Truman
Review: This movie is a "MUST SEE"-movie. Peter Weir once again has done great work. Jim Carrey has the chance to show his talent as a dramatic actor. He really deserves his Golden Globe. Just like B. Dallwitz for his beautiful score. So, join Sylvia Garland and FREE TRUMAN - JUST TURN OFF YOUR TV!
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