Seen on 31-7-2009 - HBO movie
Cast: Jim Carrey (Truman Burbank), Laura Liney (Meryl), Natascha McElhone (Mary), Ed
Harris (Christof)
Dir.: Peter Weir
Truman the common man happy working as a salesman for an insurance company suddenly begins to suspect that the social context in which he works and lives is all set up and that all the people around, including his wife, are play acting. Little did he know that for nearly 30 years, 24X7, since his birth, he had been on a popular reality tv show. When he tries to run away, say to Fijii islands, his paths are all blocked and he starts to feel trapped. To boot, all sense of privacy and spontaneity are lost when he knows he is being watched on tv. The apparently real world suddenly starts to look unreal and controlled from outside by the producer of the "Truman Show", Christof.
This experimental film make a difference with this new idea of life being a stage set-up and therefore unreal.
This is Peter Weir's dystopian cautionary fable. It's prophetic about the insidious effects of technological society.
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