Could this happen

Rating: 8/10 (18 October 1998)

While watching this film, the whole time I was thinking could this happen. The premise of this movie is a man in a goldfish bowl. Television programmes have been fly-on-the-wall, but this tells the story of a prisoner not knowing he lives a fantasy. Curiosity kills and thus it kills the world that Truman lives in, asking the question why can't we just accept things the way they are, when we question it things go wrong. I loved this movie, it has the tightness within the conventions of the film that makes films like Die Hard so good, the camera hardly ever moves out of the confines of the "studio" that is Burbanks world. From watching this we should question the morality of television, does it have the right to invade our lives, or has it become second nature to our lives and we should simply accept it as the normality of the way we live today. The only real problem I have with this film is it ends too quickly, I would have enjoyed an extra 30-40 minutes at the end to conclude the film satisfactorily.