January 15, 2010

The Truman Show [6]




Jim Carrey plays Truman, who is the star of the show he doesn’t even know he’s on. The shows been running since he was born and he didn’t catch on till recently. Everyone around him is a paid actor; he’s never really connected with anyone. He did once but she let his secret loose and the “perfect” world around him got rid of her. He’s feeling out of place, like he’s missing something, he wants to get out of his safe little world and explore. The director of this show won’t have it, he goes to great lengths to make sure that Truman stays inside the huge cage he’s built for him.
It’s sort of a dark comedy, we get all these trippy flashbacks though and I don’t know about you but I started feeling bad for Truman. Once he realizes that nothing around him is real, that everything’s just a lie and he just wants to leave but no one will help him or let him go. He starts catching on to everyone’s “cues,” how his neighbors walk around the block about twenty times a day. Everything works accordingly, synchronized to his every move; it’s really trippy to watch.
Funny thing is that it might be what so many people want, to be praised and watched. Everyone on the outside world is hooked onto his show, they don’t want him to leave either because then they won’t have anything else to do >.> Truman doesn’t want this, he wants to get out there, see the world, feel real things and find the girl he’s in love with.
Jim Carrey really outshines everyone in this film, it’s not one of his hilarious films, this one is deep. There are a few laughs here and there but it’ll get you thinking and wondering. I won’t ruin the ending, its too damn lovely <3.

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