The Ultimate Reality Show...

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2017)

...before there were reality shows. While I'm sure it wasn't intended, this movie is the perfect spoof of all reality shows, and demonstrates just how ridiculous they really are.
Truman is a man who was "enlisted" at birth to be the sole focus of a new wave in television, a 24/7 reality show that runs continuously over his lifetime. The whole world watches his progress throughout this "scripted" life, where Truman's every move becomes a fanatical obsession with viewers.
Truman becomes suspicious of the ploy, and begins to be disillusioned, seeking ways to exit this created world that has boundaries...
As a different movie it shines, but as an epic it falls short...it does, however, make you wonder about our link to television, and how it has taken over our lives...