A Great Satirical Movie

Rating: 8/10 (15 September 2015)

One of the most sinister, but still humorous, satirical movies to date, The Truman Show shows an actual world of reality TV. With an obvious target of reality TV shows and their viewing audience, this movie uses numbers of satirical tools to take stabs at what is a problem in the US and the world. From inflating the idea of advertisement in shows to the immense amount of irony, including a show filled with actors pretending not to be actors, The Truman Show carefully pinpoints the silliness of reality TV. This movie is also still extremely significant to today's world of reality TV. One show that comes to mind is The Bachelor. The Bachelor is viewed with much the same fanaticism as the Truman Show is viewed with in the movie. The Bachelor even has much the same concept as the Truman Show. People trying to do normal things in front of millions of people. The Truman Show even ends with a scene that is very similar to my sisters after the season end of the Bachelor. The show is treated like a life or death moment for them, then five minutes after the show is done they seem to forget about its existence. Overall a great movie that includes concepts that can even be used in present day.