Smile, you're on candid camera!

Rating: 9/10 (14 January 2000)

I cannot understand those reviewers who wrote it's a good comedy and you will have a lot of laughs. I don't remember myself laughing not even once. I consider though this film one of the best I've ever seen. An excellent idea, with excellent scenario (I guess both go to Peter Weir) and an excellent performance by the protagonist, Truman. Once again the Academy ridiculed themselves by not giving the Oscar to Jim Carrey. It is one of those movies I call a cinematic experience. The perennial story of the fight for freedom, told in a truly original way. If you think you are left unsatisfied with the end, you are potential viewers of the fictional Truman Show. But the most annoying scene for me was the very last, where the two cops take the remote and change the channel to find something else... At their faces I recognized everyone of us. We search for the next excitement, forgetting instantly all the past. Enough with the analysis, just go and see it, it's a piece of gold, even if it's too slow in the beginning and too predictable in the end.