Real TV, Unreal Life.

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 2012)

When "The Truman Show" was concealed as a script, reality TV was something brand new and exciting, a fresh thing which would shake the world of entertainment for a while, before it grew old and went into TV history like everything else. What the scriptwriters probably didn't know is that "Reality TV" is going to last until the present days and sprout into uncountable degenerate alterations. I guess "The Truman Show" was a form of social satire, an Orwellian vision of the future which will never come. Boy they were wrong. Watching Truman Burbank back in 1998. made me laugh, though these days it very much resembles all other TV surrounding.
What does this mean for the movie? It's still brilliant. A rare and shiny gem in the sludge of Hollywood, as well as Jim Carrey's role of a lifetime. The film is great, but the fact our world is becoming more and more like "The Truman Show" is what scares me. Furthermore, people these days crave to have their privacy invaded, much unlike poor and oblivious Mr Burbank.
If Truman knew back in 1998. what the world of Reality TV would look like now in 2012., I guess he would have tied a rope around his neck and jumped off that boat into the storm.