The Best Film of 1998

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 1999)

Jim Carrey couldn't have asked for a better role to express his dramatic side. We watch Truman Burbank for two hours, and although it's only a movie, we become part of the TV audience sitting on the edge of our seats wondering "How it will end". Peter Weir creates a world that seems unreal, but in truth isn't far from reality. In world of MTV's "Real World" and Jerry Springer exposes, we have begun to crave voyeurism. The Truman Show isn't about Truman, it's about society.