World within world - POSSIBLE SPOILER

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2004)

This movie is undoubtedly one of those movies that are so original among movies, that you could say they are out of this world, like for example fight club, the matrix 1 etc. Just the story in itself is already something that one might never imagine in their wildest dreams. Even though it has the air of a nice and sweet, and especially funny family movie, and I guess it is meant to be just this, the story is one of wild imagination. One could not imagine living in a world for 30 years, not knowing and not noticing that all the people, and I mean all the people that he knows, are actors, and thus not really the people he thinks they are. I mean, your father, your mother, your wife! How can this happen! It seems not possible, but when I got more comfortable with the idea, it seemed to me that this could be reality to a certain extent. All it takes, I guess, are some very strong actors close to a person that likes more to be noticed than to notice people around him, and Jim Carrey puts such a person down with great virtuosity, and a big group of part figurants, part actors, who are dedicated to their job, and ready to act when they have to. And then to think what he must have thought when he found out. You can see him getting more and more suspicious, and when he first starts to get this suspicion, you see him trying to act inconspicuous, not knowing which people are part of the conspiracy. Imagine the train of thought he had when he realized the vastness of this conspiracy, containing all the people he knows in it. This is too big for words. Normally when a person has this kind of ideas, people say he is mentally ill, and probably he is. But then to slowly find out it is real! What a tremendous doubt this would bring in a person! Not in the person Jim Carrey plays, because Truman has enough of a childs mind left to be able to accept this far fetched an idea. If I would have to choose one word for this movie, I would most humbly choose the word: Outrageous!