Beautiful, absolutely beautiful

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2005)

Jim Carrey had been a riot for me as an eight year old boy watching "The Mask" for the first time. "Ace Ventura" was also great. But the routine was old, and I had grown tired of it. I happened to stumble across "The Truman Show" earlier this year, while visiting my grandparents. And it was breath taking.
The mere thought of a television show made solely to keep one man imprisoned was horrible, but intriguing at the same time. It made me want to tear apart the producers of the show, but made me watch in curiosity as we were slowly brought into the world of Truman, a 30-something man who sells insurance and has never traveled outside of his hometown. Everything was created for him and him alone, and everyone is trained to keep him unaware of the world outside the world around him.
You feel sorry for Truman, want to scream, shout, run into the film and wake him up, but you can't. He is like an unborn baby, unaware that this isn't reality.
The cast was incredible, with Carrey delivering his best performance, There's no talking out of his behind, stupid noises or faces. Ed Harris delivers as the TV producer who decided to play God for Truman.
The final minutes of "The Truman Show" are truly beautiful, masterfully filmed. The music, the lack of dialogue, it brought tears to even my eyes as I was left in wonder at how something like this came to happen, and at what was to happen next. It was shocking, but most of all, it was beautiful.
There was no gratuitous violence, language or sex. It was a character driven story, through and through, and the viewer is on Truman's road to self discovery throughout the entire thing.
I can't stress it enough; the film was, for lack of any other word, beautiful, from beginning, and especially, the end.