A Brilliant Story Still Relevant for the Common Man

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 2016)

The Truman Show starts off as an unsuspecting movie. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is, for all intents and purposes, a normal man living a normal life. White picket fence, lovely wife, friendly neighborhood and all. Like every man with everything though, Truman starts to suspect that there's more to life than his simple desk job and white picket fences. The Truman Show is a masterful work that gracefully comments on various themes of life in a brilliant manner. These themes include existentialism, freedom of choice, and the power that media holds over human life.
It's also worth noting how much the Truman Show reminded me personally of the Matrix. Both Neo and Truman are a sort of "chosen one" character type. Not only that but they're both given choices to stay in the fantasy, or to leave and see the world for what it really is. The comparisons can even be found in the sort of "captors" of the two. Both of their captors believe that they're doing them good by keeping them in a fantasy world where everything works.
In all, I believe the Truman Show is definitely worth a watch and provides quite a lot of thoughts.