What we all would like to do

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 1999)

One way to look at The Truman Show is as a satire on modern television. Another way to look at it (and the one I prefer) is as the story of the only modern day man to ever go up against God. That is something we all would like to do at one time or another in our life; to just go up against the omnipotent force in our lives and ask questions, make demands, defy them, etc. When Truman is facing both his fear of water and the power that controls his life at the same time, it was one of the only two times a movie has made me cry (the other being the ending to Cuckoo's Nest). Nobody else can say that they have first stared down the being that guides their universe, let alone say that they have triumphed over them. How many people have even shown a tenth of the courage Truman showed then?