«It's not Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a life»

Rating: 7/10 (14 August 2007)

"The Truman Show" is a completely original motion picture. For good and for bad, it is very different and a unique movie experience.
In general, "The Truman Show" is okay but far from perfection. Some moments are a bit boring. It was directed by Peter Weir, the same guy who directed "Dead Poets Society".
"The Truman Show" is a movie which makes us question this: «What if my whole life was nothing more than just a reality-show? What if my whole life was just a television program? What if the whole world knew everything about me and my life?».
That's exactly what happens with the character Truman Burbank. He doesn't know about this, but as the movie runs he suspects that something's wrong and slowly he finds out the truth. He also finds out that even his wife, his best friend Marlon and most people he knows are actually hired actors. However, Sylvia (Truman's dream woman) is the only one who supports him and feels ashamed about what they are doing to Truman.
Jim Carrey does a great job as Truman Burbank. However, Jim Carrey is hilarious as usual in this movie but at the same time he does a very good job as a dramatic actor. Yes, this was his first dramatic role ever, which was a challenge for Jim Carrey, but ended up as a victory.
Ed Harris is great as well in the role of the arrogant program's creator Christof. But the other actors do a good job either.
This movie is distinguish for being so different and fresh, but at the same time it has the power of letting me paranoid. It's notorious how after this movie came out lots of reality-shows were made (naturally inspired by this movie's idea).
This movie looks simple in many ways, but it also has some amazing and original things: a perfect sunset, a nice and lovely town (Seahaven), beautiful sceneries, stunning views of Seahaven surrounded by the sea, the moon which is Christof's studio, different and good camera angles which give us the impression that Truman is being watched (including from the inside of the electronic climate controls of Truman's car - somebody explain me how did they do that?), the rain falling on Truman, the incredible storm caused by Christof's selfish orders and even that final part - when Truman walks through the sea and Christof talks to him from the sky. That final part is so well made that we can consider it magical.
By the way, I can't finish my review without talking about the soundtrack. This movie has brilliant and very smooth classical music by Frédéric Chopin. It's so beautiful and wonderful! Besides, there's plenty of more instrumental songs (not classical, however), which are equally awesome and very relaxing to hear.