Discuss The Truman Show
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Interesting but not entertaining
posted by intothenightaloneSTAFFMOD on March 30, 2017 at 9:24 AM
Great conversation piece but not really an entertaining venture.
Reply by theburbs
on March 30, 2017 at 7:25 PM
Ha, I randomly watched this movie the other week and I have to disagree! I find this movie entertaining. I love the character of the woman who tries to tell Truman he's being filmed all the time, but the people behind the scenes go to lengths to shield him from the truth.
It's not my favourite movie or anything, but I love the concept and see it as a good satire of the ridiculousness of reality TV. This movie if I recall is pre-social media, but I feel there are parallels to what happened to Truman and all of the blogger/Instagram parents who post their kids's entire lives online without their consent. I always report photos of naked kids when I see them on Instagram. Do you really think your kid is going to thank you for posting that when they're older?
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on April 1, 2017 at 4:53 AM
I probably find it the most entertaining of all Jim Carey's films.
It's not actually a satire of reality TV because reality TV didn't exist back then. Same goes for EdTV.
Both Truman Show and EdTV were satires of the media and our obsession with other peoples lives. At the time the films came out we would never have guessed they would film real people and put it on tv like they do now. Or that people would even watch it. The films seemed so out there. The film makers probably didn't even think it would ever actually happen. Yet now we're living in this crazy sci-fi world. It was supposed to be a joke, but the joke actually came true.
Shows like Big Brother may even have been inspired by these films.
I guess the films kind of lose a lot of their power now because their concepts don't seem so crazy. It's just the norm.
Reply by intothenightalone
on April 1, 2017 at 8:38 AM
It's actually funny how people now film and upload their whole lives on YouTube. There are a few "bloggers" as they call them and they have been documenting their family's lives for years and have 100,000 views per day.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on April 1, 2017 at 10:11 AM
Really? That's pretty crazy. As sad as that is, it'd be very valuable to future historians.
Reply by intothenightalone
on April 1, 2017 at 4:28 PM
Good point. I wonder if universities download these videos in case the channels get shutdown?
I found a family of video bloggers by looking up reviews of hover boards. They're called "my family nest".
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on April 1, 2017 at 4:48 PM
Your not writing these posts from the future are you?
Reply by intothenightalone
on April 1, 2017 at 5:21 PM
From the past 2015
Reply by Renovatio
on June 4, 2018 at 10:49 PM
I find the movie troublingly prophetic...
the parallels to social media are scary, in that WE have become not only the TV corporation and teams of people that controls Truman, but also the ridiculous audience that enables this to happen... Yet, we, on the whole and individually, have forgotten that we ARE Truman!
Unlike Truman, we cannot just sail to the edge of the world... It's a much darker movie rewatching it and considering the world today than it was seeing it 20 years ago, but it's mostly us amd thw world that has changed...
We no longer idolise celebrities, yet we have chosen personal micro social media celebrity as the model for our own lives... Truman recognises that he is on TV and that is the climax of his awakening, but we put ourselves on our screens without recognising what it means or who we have become...
The question are faced with having rewatched this is can we be True Men? As true as he was as he walked through that door in the sky? I'm not sure that is even possible anymore... I doubt people have the desire...
But yes, the movie itself is not entertaining in the way Pleasantville was entertaining... Yet it is very much the more relevant movie...