genius movie that strongly applies to todays society

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2005)

The Truman Show is an original and brilliant idea. It is a satire for how the media consumes us. Truman is a metaphor for the public. He is born into a false reality of life which is controlled by a corporation (christof). This relates to us because most of us grow up glued to the television, and hanging onto every word the media tells us. Most people don't realize the power of the media. It can run your entire life, as it did Truman's. The media shapes who we are in real life. We are shaped by about 5 or 6 major corporations, which own everything around us. In Trumans case, he is controlled by one corporation. Christof will go to any extreme to give the fans what they want. At the end of the movie, he makes the whether so stormy that he almost kills his movie star for the sake of ratings. This is only a slight exaggeration of the extremes that the real corporations will go to for higher ratings. The real corporations tell you everything wrong with you, and they tell you the exact way you have to be in order to be acceptable to society, just so you will buy their products or watch their t.v shows. All of these ideas about the media are expressed in the Truman Show. Their are so many subtle, but important details about the media that are overlooked, so you pay close attention and watch it over and over if you need to.