A Wonderful Piece of Work

Rating: 9/10 (12 September 2016)

The Truman Show is honestly quite a wonderful movie, and I never thought how powerful a satire it was until now. We go through the life of Truman Burbank, following him along oblivious to the fact that he is being watched by millions of people on a television show, and watch his conquest to find out what is going on around him. The creator of this TV show in an interview said, "We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented" as the explanation to why he hadn't sought out the truth before, and I think that speaks miles about what is going on in this show and the meaning in general. This movie shows that we as people should always try and question the world around us and always be adventurous and quizzical, because had Truman never tried to figure out the truth for the reasons he did, he could have gone his whole life in blissful ignorance in a world that wasn't what it seemed. This movie showed that ignorance is not bliss, and the truth is out there somewhere just waiting to be uncovered. After watching this movie you feel the need to question things more, and that shows that this was incredibly effective at doing what it did as a satire.