One of the most relevant movies of our times

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2005)

I watched this movie with a friend when it came out in 1998 and we discussed it for days. It is so multi-layered that you can spend hours and hours discussing and dissecting it and still you may just have missed one important aspect of it.
On the surface it is a story of Truman a 30 something guy who realizes one day that his whole life has been actually a TV show. Everybody around him, including his wife and best friend, are mere actors and everything around him is a studio set. Bizarre concept but not so bizarre if you think about all the reality shows these days. The movie is kind of prophetic because it came out before the reality shows had not yet flooded our cable. One can also interpret the movie from the way media creates, manipulates and destroys personalities these days.
Jim Carey has given an excellent performance but it is sad that it went unnoticed by the academy. But they can't be blamed because he has become a prisoner of his own image so much so that no one takes him seriously. Had it been Tom Hanks instead of him I am sure this movie would have made a clean sweep that year.
One of the most relevant movies of our times.