An underrated pearl

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2017)

Just watched this film last night, and found that it is such a great file that I can't understand why I have missed it for so long.
I would put it in the same tie with The Matrix (1999). The concepts in both movies are similar, and more importantly, The Truman Show came out before The Matrix did.
Dunno why there was not a single Academy Award for this great movie. I just love it and couldn't stop thinking about it.
Just one question about it (a little spoiler in it, but...): When Truman was sitting in the beach, why was the rain falling on himself only but not anything else? If the crew's purpose is to make Truman believe in the "world" he was living in, they shouldn't have made this error, should they? I mean, if I were part of the weather crew, I would downpour the beach area where Truman was sitting. From the movie, it looked to be an important prompt for Truman to realize that there was a plot around him. The crew has been controlling all this for about 30 years, and it is hardly believable that they would have made such a stupid error.
By the way, I found the director character Christol is quite likable. I happened to find he was also the Marine General in The Rock (1996). The opening speech by him in front of the Marine cemetery was touching and the following mutiny his command staged was pretty impressive.