The Truman Show

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The Truman Show

The Truman Show is a reality-T.V style film by director and film-maker

Peter Weir. Unsurprisingly weir has made a nuber of other films which

deal with peaple trapped in small, claustrophobic communities. In 1985

Weir made 'Witness,' which concerns a police man who takes refuge in a

small, isoltaded farming community.

The Truman Show follows the pattern of 'Witness,' Truman is in an

isolated community as was Harrison Ford, the policeman. Truman is

trapped and made to stay.

The community in the Truman Show is an island where Jim Carrey plays

Truman Burbank. Truman lives a fake, artificial life, which is where

the word 'True-Man' comes into mind, Truman only wants to live a true

life. Everybody in Truman's life are actors, from his wife to his best

friend since the age of 7.

Truman is adopted from birth and grown up with a fake family, when he

grows older into an adult he becomes restless and suspicious of the

events around him. Like giant pieces of pruduction falling from the

'sky,' to picking up a radio frequency describing his every move.

I think The Truman Show is an excellent film, Jim Carrey carried the

film tremendously because of his superb acting and a huge amount of

emotion as the character Truman.

In one scene Truman's wife is arguing with Truman, the camera changes

to a spy look from Trumans wife, this showed how detailed the cameras

were and gives the impression how complex reality-T.V can be.

An exciting scene is the storm sequence, it showed Truman attempting

his escape plan by dodging cameras out of his home, and onto a boat

and out to sea. Christof (Ed Harris) is shown to be controlling the

waves and storm and puts Truman in serious danger.

Truman is shown to be thinking of a girl written out of his life,

although Truman doesn't know, she was an actor who tried to tell

Truman the truth the truth, but was forcefully fired.

The film explored imprisinment, the idea that we are all controlled,

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