What it could have been

Rating: 7/10 (20 April 2001)

Imagine the film this way
Let's say the film is called "Truman" and it's about a guy who keeps finding things wrong with his world and begins to believe nothing is real. It starts, WITHOUT an introduction to the "Truman Show," and as far as the audience knows, there IS NO "Truman Show." The story unfolds about a man trying to find something that's real, like the romance with that girl who was taken away. He doesn't know why she was taken away and neither do we... you see where I'm going with this? Now this would have been a tiresome narrative in such a long movie, so naturally, it would be very short, perhaps it would never be a full-length film. The realization that his life is a television show would happen at the same time for him as the audience and it would be a great twist ending rather than what it is: a clever short-film idea stretched into a full length film.