Disturbing and Great

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2001)

REVIEW: THE TRUMAN SHOW **** out of ****
The Truman Show rocks! It is BY FAR Jim Carrey's best drama so far. The movie takes a look at our obsession with TV and would work even better now in 2001 because of the reality show trend. The movie somehow manages to be weird, original, funny, and disturbing all at the same time. However, if you haven't seen it, be warned. When I saw it the first time I didn't have a happy feeling. However, after watching it many times, I really liked it. The story goes like this: Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is an ordinary guy, with an ordinary house, and an ordinary wife...or so he thinks. But he's actually the subject of the biggest, most controversial reality show of all time. His world is controlled by the God-like Christof (A Brilliant Ed Harris) who runs Truman's world from the "moon". Meanwhile, Truman wants to travel and go to Fiji and find a girl who he fell in love with in high school but was taken off the show because she was determined to tell Truman of what was really going on. All through the movie he grows more and more suspicious of his surroundings wondering "Is this all real"? Jim Carrey, who once made his butt talk, really shows that he has come a long, long way from doing a slapstick Kung Fu routine in Dumb & Dumber. And Ed Harris...he really makes you hate and love his character who has locked Truman up in a prison and videoed him for his own profit. Truman is really the only likeable character in the movie because everyone involved with the show, except him and Sylvia, are all the meanest kind of criminal. An emotional criminal. Everyone from his wife to his own mother has falsely loved him and are manipulating him for their own profit. But the strange thing is...they are truly horrible people but the actors who play them make them very likeable. The Truman Show is a very uncomfortable experience yet it is extremely great.