Movie Review: The Truman Show

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A Story Within the Story The Truman Show revolves around an all around nice guy named Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey). Truman is a loving husband to Meryl (Laura Linney) and hardworking insurance salesman in the town of Seahaven. What Truman does not know is that everyone in town is an actor and his entire life, from birth to present day, has been televised to the entire planet. This ultimate experiment in voyeurism, which goes by the same name as the movie, is the brainchild of Christof (Ed Harris), who watches and controls the details and even the weather in Truman’s world. However, after a few strange occurrences in Truman’s daily life he begins to question and test his reality. The setting for The Truman Show is the town of Seahaven. …show more content…

There are a few exceptions such as at 15:01 and 1:16:06 we see women wearing pants but this subtle push of showing gender or sex difference in costumes accentuates an era when women and men were expected to dress in a certain manner. This unwritten dress code is also shown in the amount of body exposure we see in the movie. The actors are all dressed very conservatively and the only wardrobe in the film that may be interpreted as attempting to be sexually attractive is worn by Meryl at the 13:25 …show more content…

We begin watching it with high hopes of laughs thanks to the film’s star Jim Carrey, and we do get a few chuckles. However, the movie has a slightly darker undertone to it as we watch Truman try to figure out what is going on in his world and his attempts to escape Seahaven. Seeing Jim Carrey out of his normal role as a pure comedy actor was interesting to watch and he did a great job, but I still prefer him as one of my “go to” comedic actors. I enjoyed watching this movie as I have in the past and during this assignment I even got my Dad to sit down and watch it with me. Dad’s final review of the movie – “hmmm…wasn’t bad”. That’s high praise coming from

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