Great movie, but has inappropriate allegories.

Rating: 7/10 (14 May 2003)

It's difficult to add new positive comments to The Truman Show. I fully agree with the people who feel it has a strong script, superb art direction, beautiful music, very interesting ideas in the plot, extreme care in the details,... and, yes, Jim Carrey does a great performance, as well as all the actors.
However, it suffers a sad weak point: I feel that the allegory of God through Christof (Ed Harris) -an allegory built not from the character name but from some events and scenes in the movie-, is very inappropriate. It's out of context, it happens just as a gag. It would be right if the movie portrayed Christof as someone who believes to be a god (which he does)... however, the movie does an effort going an step beyond, using some typical Christian-like imagery to establish the allegoric parallelism, looking like a God's caricature rather than Christof's.
The Truman Show is a great movie. One of the best made movies I've seen in the last decade, despite its inappropriate allegories.
I voted it 7/10.