The Truman Show 1998
- Director: Peter Weir
- Seen by this director: Dead Poets Society, Witness, Mosquito Coast, Gallipoli
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natasha McElhone
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Jim Carrey – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bruce Almighty, Peggy Sue Got Married
- Laura Linney – Genius, Jindabyne, Driving Lessons, The Squid and the Whale, Love Actually, Mystic River, The Life of David Gale, Dave, Lorenzo’s Oil
- Ed Harris – Cymbeline, Snowpiercer, Gone Baby Gone, Copying Beethoven, a History of Violence, The Human Stain, The Hours, A Beautiful Mind, Pollock, Glengarry Glen Ross, Swing Shift
- Noah Emmerich – Beyond Borders, Beautiful Girls
- Natasha McElhone – Ladies in Lavender, The Other Boleyn Girl, Solaris, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Miss Dalloway, Cold Lazarus, Karaoke
- Why? I remember it as good.
- Seen: Once before. Now 10 February 2024
Truman Burbank (Carrey) lives in a boring
life with a boring but annoyingly cheery wife (Linney). He dreams of fleeing to
Fiji, he remembers Lauren (McElhone), the girl he was in love with in college,
even though they try to make him forget.
They who?
What he doesn’t know, what Lauren tries
to tell him, is that ‘they’ are the ones filming him 24/7 and broadcasting his
life for everyone to see. And everyone sees. His life is followed religiously
by millions the world over.
What’s reality? What’s TV fiction? How
can we tell? What can we do about it?
It’s an eerie, thought-provoking, even disturbing film. But fascinating. Even Linney’s incessantly manic smiles work better here than in other films.
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