Unusually intelligent Jim Carrey movie - a provocative and prescient media satire. Puts Big Brother and the current spate of docu-soaps firmly into perspective
Truman Burbank (Carrey is a happily married insurance salesman living a normal life in a small American town so perfect that he has never felt the need or desire to leave it. He has a loving wife (Linney, and a loyal best buddy (Emmerich. Life is good until one morning a stage light drops from the skies and shatters on the ground perilously close to him. It is the trigger that sets him questioning everything around him. What is behind the facades of the buildings he has never entered? Why do people seem to be travelling around him in a perfectly synchronized loop? What is going on outside his home-town? Truman is, it turns out, the unwitting star of a top-rated 24-hour-a-day TV docu-soap.
Under the careful critical scrutiny to which it has been subjected, the plot turns out not to be watertight. This is to miss the point of what is a hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire which also allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy.
The Truman Show is also oddly moving and has, as you would expect from a Weir film, a pronounced metaphysical slant with Ed Harris playing the show"s archly named producer/creator Christof.
Verdict
One of the cinematic highlights of the 1990s, The Truman Show is up there with Weir"s very best work.
When I first saw 'The Truman Show' I came out of the theatre amazed. This is your first clue that you are watching something different from your normal Jim Carrey movie. I love the dialogue, camera shot, performances, direction, music, and running time of this movie. There is nothing I would do to change it. I came away from 'The Truman Show' feeling inspired which is the goal of good filmmaking Jim Carrey was outstanding as Truman, underplaying him, not making him too comic or too dramatic, but giving true sincerity when asked. He deserved an Oscar nomination. Ed Harris has always been a good actor, but in this movie he's a great actor. He plays Christof with such arrogance and bullheadedness that you don't know whether he's helping or destroying Truman. He and the director, Peter Weir, deserved their Oscar nods.
Weir, who directed the great 'Witness', uses different camera angles to make you feel like you're actually watching 'The Truman Show' and not a movie. He ends it before you get tired of the concept and helped Carrey and Harris give immaculate performances. Andrew Niccol script is a real star in the movie too because of it's inventiveness and ingenuity. Overall, 'The Truman Show' is what I like to call a true American classic.
小时候,我和姐姐经常住在奶奶家。因为我比姐姐小三岁,所以姐姐经常捉弄我。那时候,我很讨厌我的姐姐,觉得她是一个十足的大坏蛋。
记得我四岁时的一天,雨过天晴后,奶奶家的院子里形成了好多好多个小水坑。我和姐姐很想在水坑中踩水取乐。姐姐统一了我们的意见后,就自告奋勇的向奶奶说我们想做的游戏,并希望奶奶能同意。没想到,奶奶真的同意了。我和姐姐十分欢喜,立刻挽起裤腿,脱下鞋子,光着一双小脚丫,一个蹦子跳进水坑里,小水坑里溅起了高高的浪花。我也学着姐姐的样子,把腿抬得高高的,再使劲往下踩,希望能比姐姐溅的浪花还高。姐姐偷偷地看了我一眼,奸诈的一笑,然后对我说:“豆豆,我们来比一比谁在水里下压的`最低,好不好啊?”我不知是计,便同意了。我学着姐姐的样子,一个劲的往下压腿,只听“扑通”一声我坐在了水坑里。我提着湿漉漉的泥裤子,不知所措。姐姐见状,诡秘地笑着去告状。结果,我挨了一顿打。当我委屈的哇哇大哭时,姐姐却幸灾乐祸地哈哈大笑。
转眼间,我们都长大了,姐姐已经是一个初中生了。现在的姐姐可不一样了,她时时帮助我,鼓励我。
姐姐是个电脑高手。每到星期天,我写完了作业,就去向姐姐学电脑技术。首先,姐姐教我怎样打字,怎样排版、保存。后来姐姐又教会了我上网查阅资料,让我学到了更多的课外知识。一次,姐姐正在她的空间里制作网页,那优美的音乐、动感的画面和完美的布局,让我惊奇又羡慕。姐姐二话没说就手把手地教我。她先教我从网上下载动感图片,然后存入自己的空间。起初,因为不熟练,我一不小心就把图片弄丢了。姐姐没有生气,一边耐心地给我讲解,鼓励我别紧张,一边握着我的手教我。最后我终于学会了。
哦,我的姐姐真的变了,变得宽容、大方了。
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