A great satire, more relevant with each passing year.

Rating: 9/10 (18 September 2007)

This was a movie that intrigued me from my first viewing of the trailer. It seemed so fresh, so new. (Too often trailers seem to advertise a movie you have seen many times before.) The concept is audacious (if not entirely plausible) but the real strength is in the dialogue and the performances. Jim Carey grates very occasionally but the rest of the cast is spot on. The ways in which Truman's "friends" and "family" profess their affection while simultaneously betraying him are funny, sad and lacerating all at the same time. Repeated viewings have not dulled the edge of this modern morality tale.
Reality TV was not such a ubiquitous presence when this movie was made (and I hope ardently for it's eventual demise) so that this movie has become more relevant and less unlikely with every passing year.