Eye opening

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2014)

The Truman Show is a very entertaining and eye-opening satirical movie about a man whose life has been secretly recorded and broadcasted to the world 24 hours a day. This film targets reality TV stars, producers, and its audience. The star of the show, Truman Burbank, has no idea that his life has been recorded and televised since the day he was born and that his entire life, including the very city he has grown up in, is a lie. The Truman Show inflates the scale of reality TV today, but not by that much, honestly. Though this movie was created a while ago now, but it is still just as relevant in today's society as it was then, if not even more pertinent. With shows like Jersey Shore and Big Brother, reality TV has become a large part of our lives today, but we never really stop to think about the people on TV's privacy. Our generation has become so desensitized to knowing everything about celebrities that we never stop to think about how the celebrities must feel. These stars are no less of people than the rest of us, and The Truman Show really opens your eyes to that fact.