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Movie name

The Truman Show

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present world

Live performance

Film genre

Drama/comedy

The length of a movie (according to the screening time)

103 minutes

Country/region

United States of America

conversational language

English

colour

colour

Match to the original tape

Dolby digital surround sound

grade

Theme elements and mild language rating PG.

grade

Australia: PG Singapore: PG Portugal: M/ 12 Argentina: 13 Chile: TE Netherlands: 12 Peru: PT Sweden: 1 12 Britain: PG USA: PG France: U Iceland: L Hong Kong: I Spain.

cost of production

(estimated)

Property in copyright

Paramount Film Company, 1998

loan

be in charge of/supervisor

Peter weir peter weir

dramatist

Andrew niccol Andrew Niccol ... (Author)

executant

Jim carrey jim carrey Truman burbank.

Laura linney laura linney Meryl burbank/Hannah Gill

Ed Harris. Ed Harris ... Christopher

Natasha McElhon natascha mcelhone ... Lauren/Sylvia

Noah emre noah emmerich ... Malone.

Philip Baker Hall Philip Baker Hall ...

Blair Slater ... Young Truman.

Peter Krause Peter Krause Lawrence.

Plot introduction

Omnikon TV production company adopted a baby 30 years ago, and they deliberately trained him to be the protagonist of the world's most popular documentary soap opera "The Truman Show", which made the company a great success. However, only one person knows nothing about all this. He is the only protagonist in the play-Truman.

Truman lived in a small town called Seascape (actually a huge studio) since he was a child. He is the agent of an insurance company in this small town. Truman seems to live the same life as ordinary people, but he doesn't know that there are thousands of cameras on him every second of his life, and the whole world is watching him all the time, not to mention that everyone around him, including his wife and friends, is an actor in The Truman Show.

Although it seems that everyone is paying attention to him, everything he has done since childhood has some unexpected dramatic effects, but these have not made this simple-minded young man care too much. However, in order to seek more special effects, the program production team actually let the "father" who died as a child because of Truman show up again, but did not let them meet. It was not until Truman was extremely sad that they let their "father and son" know each other, thus achieving the desired effect.

However, all this makes a young girl, Mary, who is both a loyal audience and an extra of Truman Show, feel very sorry for Truman. She gave Truman some kind hints, which forced him to start to understand his life again. Gradually, Truman found that in the company where he worked, everyone didn't start real work until he appeared. The same people and cars come and go repeatedly on the road near his home every day. What makes him even more unbelievable is that his wife who claims to be a doctor and works in the hospital every day is not a doctor. Truman began to suspect that the world he lived in, including his wife, friends, father, etc., were deceiving him, and a heartfelt fear arose.

From a painful experience, he decided to escape from the seaview town at all costs to find someone who really loved him in his real life. However, Truman underestimated the power of Christopher, who is the producer, director and producer of this soap opera. Christopher designed almost everything perfectly, keeping Truman steady in the surreal seascape world for nearly 30 years.

After several failed attempts to escape, Truman decided to leave the town by sea. However, he desperately found that the big sea and the sky in front of him was also a part of this huge studio. At this moment, Christopher came out. He told Truman the story and told him that he is now the most popular star in the world. What he has achieved today is unimaginable to ordinary people. If he wants to stay in the sea view, he can continue his star life. Truman, unmoved, resolutely towards the distant.

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Comment in one sentence

An absurd fable of life

A strong satire on the social phenomenon of mercenary and trampling on human rights

Strongly criticize the values of "media omnipotence"

An inspiring and thought-provoking black comedy.

It shows people the world infiltrated by the media in an ironic way.

It strongly criticizes the value of "media omnipotence" and implies the "caged bird" type of survival sorrow with a virtual perfect world similar to "Utopia".

Story of a lifetime

On the radio. Not knowing.

The whole world is watching.

We like to watch!

See what happens.

short review

The The Truman Show, a black comedy, shows us how an ordinary nobody was turned into a famous TV star without knowing it, but was completely deprived of his freedom, privacy and even dignity, and became a victim of the mass entertainment industry. This film reflects the hope and anxiety of human beings, and at the same time, it has attracted much attention because it touches the most sensitive social issues today. With modernist artistic style, it profoundly exposed the ugly behavior of mercenary and trampling on human rights in western commercial activities, and strongly mocked the negative side of American morality, human feelings and the world.

Famous comments

The Truman Show is a unique and creative film, which is thought-provoking, touching and humorous at the same time. King of comedy Jim Carrey is innocent and complicated in his films. He put aside all the shackles and showed touching feelings in his usual comedy performances. Although his performance was not favored by the Oscar judges, at least he conquered most ordinary audiences. The success of the film has proved to the world who is the real king of comedy-although it is only the uncrowned king at present. Generally speaking, this is definitely a good movie with laughter and tears.

-Richard Schaekel, film critic of Time magazine.

On the surface, the film seems to tell an absurd fable about life. However, if you go deep into it, you will find that the meaning contained in it is profound and will make you shudder, because maybe one day, you will start to worry about whether the same thing will happen around you.

-Reggie Smith, a famous film critic in new york

I think this movie has many levels, not just any Hollywood movie. At the same time, its theme concept is also very creative and empathetic, which makes people ask themselves: "Maybe everyone around me is acting?"

-A movie starring Jim Carrey.