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.
楚门是个普通人,普通得就像生活在我们身边。他有许多的***,又很容易满足。因此,他有时欣喜若狂,有时如丧考妣,大多的时候则彷徨郁闷,不知所措。这时,天才的导演又有了用武之地,他不断地制造新的刺激,使他的长剧变得波澜起伏,吊人胃口。他在楚门快乐的时候便给他制造些麻烦,在其沮丧的时候,则不失时机地给其开启一线生机。他让金发女郎如言情小说般突然出现在楚门的视线中,开启他爱欲的阀门,又让她突然离去,使其心灵坠入无底的深渊;他让楚门从未谋面的“已故父亲”突然现身,夸张滑稽的相认场面令其热泪盈眶,同时也赚取了电视观众的热泪;他又让楚门的知心朋友在其情绪恶劣的时候去关怀他、开导他,令其感受到这“荒漠中的甘泉”而重生信心,虽然那位朋友只是一个演员,而且正背着大段台词……
很佩服电影中那位才华横溢、不可一世的天才导演,他让人想到了上帝,同时看到那个软弱、疲惫、徨惑的楚门被一次次的虚伪所玩弄,还是对生活和前途充满了乐观时,我的内心就一阵阵地酸楚,我不忍面对——不忍面对一个真实的“我们”!
“人生如戏,戏如人生”,哲人如此感叹,但人生舞台上的演员——我们,是不是时刻都有一种演戏的自觉呢?还是在上帝的欺瞒和安排下,忘我地做着无意义的事呢?快乐,不
足以使我们热爱这个世界;挫折,不足以使我们抛弃这个世界。上帝就像那个天才的导演一样,掌握着很好的度,他知道该在何时给我们当头一棒,何时又给我们烧起暖暖的火炉,他使我们在痛苦中保持希望,在希望中忍受痛苦,因为痛苦制造着剧情的波澜,也制造着收视率,希望则是赏给我们的出场费,使我们不至于中途罢演。
电影的末尾,楚门是觉悟了的,他对着摄影机,真的向“上帝”罢演了。天才的导演恐慌了,他将失去观众,他竭力挽留楚门,告诉他离开了导演控制的世界是很危险的.,但楚门还是走出了那扇门,走向那个黑漆漆的未知世界,他说不管那个世界中等待他的是什么,他都不在乎。佛家有“顿悟”一说,并说人的本性自足圆满,是人世的尘埃覆盖了它,使它迷失。看来楚门是顿悟了,他要找回那个失去的自我,那个自足圆满、自由自在的本性。
《金刚经》语:“凡所有相,皆是虚妄,若见诸相非相,则见如来。”戏装迟早要褪去,布景也迟早要撤下,演戏的时候则生龙活虎地演一场,只是别忘了过过看戏的瘾,随时让另一个“我”——本我,走下舞台,在观众席上,呷一口茶,看看戏台上的“我”和“他们”,鼓几下掌,流几滴泪,明白了这一点,便接近顿悟了。其实,我们跨不跨出那扇门又有什么关系?因为我们的心灵已经跨了出去。
“哈哈,春游去啦!”同学们怀着愉快的心情,开始了春游的旅程。一路上,我们说说笑笑,打打闹闹,在大家的期盼中,我们终于到了目的地——南安香草世界。
我们去了花园餐厅,那里环境优雅,并且十分阴凉。走进去,你会感到阵阵凉爽,坐在很休闲的椅子上,就让你顿时神清气爽。这里很美,风景怡人。你瞧,小草在微风中翩翩起舞,盼着自己快快长大。树上的花儿穿着雪白的纱裙,从远处眺望,它那婀娜多姿的样子令人陶醉。蹲在地上捡一朵落花,嗅一嗅,它的芳香沁人心脾。我们在这里美美地休息,十分惬意。过了一会儿又出发了。
“啊,快看!这里有大黑熊,好胖的大狗熊!”我们寻声而来,挤进了人群中。这五只黑熊不但乌黑,还戴了一条白色的“围巾”,走起路来非常笨拙,摇摇晃晃的。它们的耳朵尖尖的,眼睛小得像两颗豆子。它的鼻子漆黑,有点儿扁,嘴巴有些长长的,露出了锋利的牙齿。我看大黑熊很可爱,就趴得很低,好奇地俯视它。突然,它张开血盆大口,吓得我以为它要跳上来咬我,便连连退后,谁知大黑熊只是打了个哈欠,真是虚惊一场!大黑熊有时友好地互相拥抱,并且亲亲对方;有时突然立起来做“广播体操”;有时趴在一起窃窃私语……真有趣!
走着,看着,我们一口气爬上了观景平台,兴高采烈地去看风景。那儿真美啊!绿树成荫,鸟语花香,我兴奋不已,眺望着远方,欢呼群山,它们连绵起伏;欢呼森林,它们郁郁葱葱;欢呼楼房,它们高耸屹立;这一切真是太美妙了!
大家又向前走,看见了漫山遍野的樱花树。山坡上这儿一棵那儿一棵,多得数不胜数。樱花白里透粉,粉里透红,小小的花瓣紧紧地挨在一起,伸出了一点花蕊。树上零零碎碎的几片碧绿的叶子也不甘示弱,披上嫩绿的小礼服,在微风的陪伴下,开始翩翩起舞。
我们还去了温莎城堡、荷兰风车、天池……非常开心!
我们玩得乐不思蜀,意犹未尽,但也只能依依不舍的离开了。啊,我爱家乡,我爱大自然,我爱一切美好的事物!美丽的香草世界,我爱你!
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