The Truman Show

The Truman Show is an American film of Peter Weir left in 1998.

Synopsis

Truman Burbank carries out a quiet life, in a peaceful small town, filled sympathetic nerves people. And yet Truman wants to see the world, and to find a girl whose glance envouté it. But all seems to force Truman to remain where it is, including the travel agency which posts photographs of broken planes.

Because Truman is in fact, well in spite of him, the star of an emission of Télévision reality, and this since its more tender childhood.

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Distribution

Rewards

  • Golden Globes 1999
    • Better actor in a drama for Jim Carrey
    • male Best supporting role for ED Harris
    • Better film music for Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass
  • Price Hugo 1999 for the best dramatic presentation

Comment

The Truman Show is a film which was made known by the criticism of the contemporary emissions of Télé reality that it would carry out. However, the vision of a man in catch with a very powerful system, alive in ignorance and the banality, is not new thing and of many bringings together can be made. Nevertheless, the film is not a simple repetition and raises new questions.

Sources of inspirations of film

Truman lives in a world where all is organized by only one person (the realizer), a world orwellien near to 1984 and of sound Big Brother . But it is also about a man ( a priori ) quiet who doubts reality gradually. What brings it closer to the novel of Philip K. Dick Time désarticulé of which it takes up the starting idea. To finish, the research of the reality of Truman evokes us Matrix by the means of the Allégorie of the cave, and by certain elements with the series the Prisoner. It is interesting to note that “Truman” is a Homonyme of “true man”, which means in English “the true man” or “the true man”. At the beginning of film, certain “observers” make it clear that it would be about a Expérience to see how really a man at the time of situations worthy of a Televised series would react, like the false disappearance of his father.

Film analyzes

This film denounces the life of Truman on the ton of the comedy, more than on that of the science fiction. It is locked up in a world where only one person controls all (the realizer). This one is placed all in top of the studio, in the moon. One can thus see an allegory of very powerful God there.

On another side, the Master of Truman also seems to be the spectator and publicity. Indeed, the spectator decides by the choice of his chain of the future of the emission and thus of that of Truman. But publicity has also a very important role in its life. Its close relations address themselves regularly to him by using advertizing slogans.

The omnipresence of the cameras and the presence of actors return an atmosphere choking, near to Big Brother. The realizer has all the capacities on the life of Truman. At the end, when Truman tries to flee, he proposes D erester to him to avoid undergoing the difficulties of the outside world. However, Truman refuses. This part of film is a praise with freedom.

To finish, the film also seems to treat impossible total control of the individuals. Its escape is not due to an enlightened will to discover the world of which it is afraid but with the insane desire of a woman hardly met. By this history, this film is close to the novel 1984 because it is also the love which causes the rebellion.

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