Very blunt satire

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2000)

Very polite, VERY VERY pretentious, the religious overtones way too obvious (Christof? A voice in the sky?) and successful because there was nothing better to fill it's niche- copyright suit notwithstanding. The whole point of satire is to have a little bite, like American Beauty, Natural Born Killers, even Cable Guy just to name a few. TTS had no bite at all, more of a light gumming on the media's wrist, which is something the media actually likes- sort of a Friar's Club Roast situation. The media candidly acknowledges the low level of quality in their product and makes very lame attempts to cover it up. The Real Worlders, and the people who watch them, know the show is cut, chopped and edited into something very far removed from what they experienced. And the argument that we as a society watch too much TV has been around from the day TV was mass-produced. The Truman Show doesn't make the media shake it makes them nod their heads like, "Yep, we're that bad. And if we had the resources at our disposal, we'd do something like The Truman Show if we gave them enough reason to tune in." That said, The Truman Show really isn't satire at all, just a copy of a copy with an expensive set to mitigate this fact.