freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Rating: 9/10 (3 December 2002)

I have just watched this fabulous film on video for about the twentieth time and I am smiling.Why? because this is a film that says wherever there is an individual there is hope.Jim Carrey should have won something for this film because he is outstanding as Truman.It does not surprise me at all that this film was completely ignored by the motion picture academy awards, after all, there is an intelligence at work here that the movers and shakers of Hollywood just would not understand.In 1967 in the UK we had a TV series called 'The Prisoner'that was the forerunner of The Truman Show.In it's time it was villified and sanctified in equal measure.Because public opinion forced the TV networks to broadcast this series without explanation or apology, for nearly forty years the argument has raged as to what the hell this programme was all about.Now, if The Truman Show can do have the same effect,then it has done it's job.See this movie at all costs and think about it.This is NOT a Jim Carrey comedy,but it might save you from drowning in a sea of apathy.