Great movie with a deeper meaning

Rating: 9/10 (12 September 2016)

The Truman Show is a movie about Truman Burbank. Truman is an insurance salesman whose everyday life turns upside down when he figures out his life is a TV show. HIs whole life is broadcast ed 24/7, to billions of people who watch across the world. Truman lives in a dome in Hollywood, California constructed by creators for the purpose of the show. Everyone in his life is in on the show and are actors. Eventually Truman starts to figure out that his life is not as normal on the "island" of Seahaven as it seemed. His life instantly turns upside down as he becomes aware and he tries to find normalcy and get out of his life on the "island".
Personally I feel like this satirical film was a good movie and something I would watch again. I especially appreciate the meaning and substance to this film. The purpose of the film is, to expose and display how the media in our society today controls and skews our perception of the world around us. The fact that a form of media was produced to portray this purpose about today's media is pure irony in itself. Throughout the film there was exaggeration of the way today's media sells and advertises products. All of the people in Truman's life would continuously exaggeratedly look into the camera and display various products. This displayed how we force products down people's throat and use every opportunity to exploit them. Also this is shown by the creators using everything in the show to make money off of Truman and his life. The whole idea for this film is inflation of the issue with media in our society. The writers of this movie exaggerate and make the problem huge using the plot of the film to prove and teach us that it is a big issue in our lives as consumers. An interesting quote from the movie is from the creator of The Truman Show, Christof, "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. It's as simple as that" (The Truman Show 1998). This I feel is the main purpose of the plot and really speaks to the audience of the film, which is the everyday consumer. This quote really spoke to me and I hope it speaks to you too. This quote really gets the point across that we need to be more skeptical of the information given by the media. Overall, I feel like The Truman Show is an extremely effective form of satire and I recommend you watch it for some laughs, and some new reasoning in your lives.