Laura Linney
Ed Harris
Noah Emmerich
Natascha McElhone
The movie tells the tale of an insurance salesman, Truman Burbank (Jim
Carrey), who lived his entire life, since before birth, in front of cameras for
The Truman Show.
Unaware of this fact, Truman's life is filmed through thousands of
hidden cameras, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and broadcast live around the
world, allowing executive producer Christof (Ed Harris) to capture Truman's
real emotion and human behaviour when put in certain situations concocted by
the writers. The thrill about Truman’s life is that everything is arranged for
him, down to the woman he married and his best friend, things change when an
encounter made him realise that his life seems a bit to convenient.
The Truman Show was written by Andrew Niccol, who got the inspiration
from an episode of The Twilight Zone called "Special Service".
After the script had gone through some re-writes, Jim Carrey was picked
for the role, and I feel he was made for it. Made with a budget of over $60
million, The Truman Show was a financial success and was nominated for three
categories at the Academy Awards but did not win any.
The movie cinematography is done in such a way that you get to see
mistakes from the show makers and how they arrange things in the back end to
make Truman do some particular things, feel a particular way or try to cover up
their mess so he does not find out.
The script and the movie lines are fun, especially when the actors had
to advertise on the show. There could be a conversation going on, then one of
the actors will just drift to talk about an object in such a manner you wonder
if they have lost it, only for you to figure out seconds later that it was an
advert in the show. That was very creative.
The movie has wonderful actors, fantastic performances all round, but it
was too comedic for me. What I mean is, this is actually a dark issue, someone’s
entire life is being manipulated for the pleasure of others, but the movie
takes a lighter tone on the subject matter. Also, wouldn’t it have been amazing
if we too are suckered into the lie just like Truman, instead of being told from
the start that this was a show?
Anyway, this movie is fun and I recommend it, you will love the discovery and how he tries to get his life back.
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