Easy-going insurance salesman Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is the star of the most popular reality show in the history of television known as “The Truman Show”. The 1998 film The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, anticipates the media’s manipulative influence over the public view, while embroidering the idea of living in an artificial world. Filmed from when he was only a fetus in his mother’s womb, Truman’s whole life became the legendary source of entertainment people turn to everywhere, anywhere, at any time of day as long as a television screen was in sight. It's a cautionary tale about the corrupting nature of civilization that believes it has the right to watch anything. The Truman Show was born on the year of 1998 where, according
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He shifts the film from a serious social mockery to a thought-provoking reflection on the forces that control our existence. Weir skillfully directs The Truman Show with conspicuous camera angles that accentuate on the fact that cameras are following Truman around. In addition to that, innovative techniques were accomplished through the use of random displays of advertisements in “The Truman Show”, or small undetailed errors like when a satellite falls from the sky and into the street where Truman lives in, consequently influencing in the unfolding of this perfect world. These approaches were all to stimulate the viewer’s brains and remind us that the world Truman lives in isn’t real and that he’s living a lie. The screenplay by Andrew Niccol, recognized for the directing of 1997’s movie Gattaca, further emphasizes on this revelation by inserting clever touches of reality to The Truman Show, like Truman’s traumatic experience of the sea or his abandonment issues, making it difficult for viewers to differentiate the authenticity of the world, what’s real and what’s not, along with discovering ingenious ways to cover the questionability of it all. All in all, The Truman Show deserves high marks for its persuasive acting and exceptional directing. Weir and Niccol allows us viewers to create our own imaginations of Truman’s fate thanks to the use of their subtle cunning ways. The Truman Show is a film that can be enjoyed by anyone and is bound to leave the audience on the edge of the seat. Will Truman leave his comfort zone and continue to live a lie? Or will he step into a world he knows nothing
He shifts the film from a serious social mockery to a thought-provoking reflection on the forces that control our existence. Weir skillfully directs The Truman Show with conspicuous camera angles that accentuate on the fact that cameras are following Truman around. In addition to that, innovative techniques were accomplished through the use of random displays of advertisements in “The Truman Show”, or small undetailed errors like when a satellite falls from the sky and into the street where Truman lives in, consequently influencing in the unfolding of this perfect world. These approaches were all to stimulate the viewer’s brains and remind us that the world Truman lives in isn’t real and that he’s living a lie. The screenplay by Andrew Niccol, recognized for the directing of 1997’s movie Gattaca, further emphasizes on this revelation by inserting clever touches of reality to The Truman Show, like Truman’s traumatic experience of the sea or his abandonment issues, making it difficult for viewers to differentiate the authenticity of the world, what’s real and what’s not, along with discovering ingenious ways to cover the questionability of it all. All in all, The Truman Show deserves high marks for its persuasive acting and exceptional directing. Weir and Niccol allows us viewers to create our own imaginations of Truman’s fate thanks to the use of their subtle cunning ways. The Truman Show is a film that can be enjoyed by anyone and is bound to leave the audience on the edge of the seat. Will Truman leave his comfort zone and continue to live a lie? Or will he step into a world he knows nothing