The world according to Truman

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2000)

MAY CONTAIN A LITTLE SPOILER
On the air - unaware. Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey, is the star of a TV-show, but he doesn´t know it. He´s married, he´s got a good job, everything´s fine. Until the day some strange things happen. Sylvia (Natasha Mc Elhone) - a former actress of the show and Trumans secret love - tries to warn him. He wants to find out, what´s going on.
"The Truman show" is the story of a man who tries to break out of his life. He´s been betrayed for a whole lifetime. Betrayed by actors, who pretended they were his friends. That was the point that moved me most. How far can TV go? It seems that there are almost no limits in these days. Truman had no private life, he was a public man until the day he found out the truth. Christof (Ed Harris), Trumans spiritual father and the creator of the show, said it´s not the show that is mad, it´s the real world outside that is mad - Truman lived in a save world where nothing could happen to him. I could really feel Christof´s pain - when Truman leaves the show in the ending, it looked like a child that tries to grow up and wants to stand on his own feet, like a child that leaves his father.
Peter Weir, the director of "Dead poets society", amazes me ever and ever again. His movies are so uncommercial and "un-american" (he´s australian...), that it´s a miracle they´re mostly successful. But also Jim Carrey is a true gift. He shows that he can be a real character-actor. It´s a shame that this movie was ignored at the academy awards 1999. "The Truman show" is a true masterpiece. Poetic, funny and touching.