few months ago I saw a movie that was released years ago vaaarios that, once seen, I believe that he was not given the attention it deserves. I'm talking about "The Truman Show" (1998), film directed by Peter Weir and starring Jim Carrey , in what would be his first dramatic role . Other actors were accompanied Carey Ed Harris and Laura Linney .
The film tells the story of Truman Burbank (Carrey), a travel agent based in Seaheaven, a monotonous life with his wife NURSES (Linney). By itself, this story has no appeal, but there is something that Truman does not know and everybody else will: the life of Burbank was built especially for him and to be transmitted to millions of viewers the world, in the form of reality . Thus all social interactions are scripted , and even the thoughts and moods of Truman pass through the sieve of production. But there is something they can not silence: desire. The memory of Lauren ( Natasha Mc Elhone ), a teenage bride, chases him since she and her family moved Fiji suddenly confessing something I still do not understand: "this is not real" . is in search of that lost object that Truman is released. The problem is that it continues as object of desire, because the production schedule flatly refuses to re-enontrar with Lauren, or, put another way, the harmony breaks calculated show. For example, an obsession that has is to go to Fiji, it has remained as the whereabouts of his great lost love. Then look for every means to travel to Fiji, but something always stops him ... Not to mention that since the production he created a phobia of the sea (very important, considering that a Seaheaven island) after he lost his father in a storm. Truman claimed that there is no escape in this way.
Also, Burbank always a remainder that does doubt, it does go beyond
everything "knows" . It's all "so coldly calculated" suspect. While he does not know other companies (because even what went on television is ready for it), the fact that all rightly be repeated each day of your life, what is taking place in the distrust that increasingly harder to leave him. The icing on the cake gives it an encounter with his father "dead" Seaheaven on the streets. It immerses you into a deep state of anxiety and coupled to the memory of Lauren, fights with his wife and discontent with the people, it was decided to abandon once and for all the people. To achieve its goal must face his greatest fear : the ocean. But he is so adamant Seaheaven leave it heads without hesitation. The show's producers used all their technology to deter-rays, high gusts of wind, sea storms ... but Truman does not give up and wake hits the walls of reality . I was already
counting the final lol, but no. I'll let you discover the life of Truman the character Truman and human . They also let you finish, do you prefer the safety of what we already know or I risk entering a world where nothing is ready for me and which I must get used, with all that that implies?
For me the movie is great, for several reasons. For starters, it brings up the issue of realities , invention nineties and of questionable quality / taste, where use a group of people to portray a life that, paradoxically, is not real . * Second, How far is able to reach people in their eagerness to explore the intimacies of another?, How to enjoy their misfortunes and joys? Because I want to emphasize that nothing but a media entertainment , we forget that there are a sensitive person involved. If we laugh, it's manic. If we complain, we celebrate that this will happen to them and not us.
* Third, and pointed specifically to the film, the ambition and depersonalization are evident here. Christof scrawny character is painted as a callous, calculating, business and it is true, it is. But there is something to be taken into account in relation to history Truman staff, he is the one offered to give life to a "unwanted" . Of course his desire becomes extremely literal and counterproductive.
Basically, install the idea of \u200b\u200bwhat viewers look on television and how it responds. The reality, star of the current programming many channels offering viewers live different lives , none of them real. Left in which detached consume power that device.
As for performances, Jim Carrey was never my favorite ... even in the comedy genre that handles with ease. As this is one of the first dramatic roles, is still struggling to get rid of exaggerated facial expressions and movements accelerated and clownish (for example, walking with a suitcase in hand). Laura Linney come from another club, and already see the difference. Not to mention Ed Harris, who plays an evil director with a philosophy that even the best defense attorney would like ... and worse, can get to convince.
As for scenery, it seems Wisteria Lane, the people of the Desperate Housewives. All very tidy, nice, very to Bree Van de Camp. Let's face it, that's not the most common. The movie
I give 4 Clare , but the argument deserves 4 1 / 2 Clare . Highly Recommended.
A small trailer:
Well, I hope you enjoy it if you did not see it. And if you saw it, can comment on what they thought. Until next time!
PS: Interesting detail: the name of the protagonist of the show, "Truman" is a play on words between "True" and "man" = real man.
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