Reality TV

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2009)

Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) lives on a small town of Seahaven, is married to a pretty nurse Meryl (Laura Linney) and has a job as an insurance sales man. He's afraid of water because an accident that drowned his father and he is generally very well liked among the people of his little community. Yet he dreams of going away.
One day a series of curious incidents lead him to believe there's something strange about his environment, like if the whole world is revolving around him. And funnily enough it is: Truman is, with out his own knowledge, a start of a reality show, that had begun the very day he was born. Among unwanted babies he was chosen to be a star of the Truman Show, a live broadcast viewed by millions of people all around the world, dreaming of more simple world they live in.
The Truman Show is a well woven satire about the extremities of reality television. Despite it feels like a show revolving around a single clueless individual would be far fetched, it doesn't feel like that at all, when you compare it to a stream of "reality" nonsense in the TV today. While the movie itself comes a tale of a man, who is trying to travel to the edge of his own reality, the other aspects of the movie good deal of criticism and very justified questions about the whole nature of reality TV graze.
All in all the cast is solid and does a very good job. Ed Harris is especially good as Christof, megalomaniac director/creator of the show, who is trying his hardest to keep Truman in his place. Jim Carrewy gives one of his best performances, showing he can do serious work, if given good enough script to work with. While the music is used sparingly, the soundtrack contains some very memorable tunes.
The Truman Show is one of those movies I usually watch from beginning to the end, if I happen to catch it from the TV. It is very well made movie and I would even consider it a classic on its own right.