Revolutionary Film

Rating: 10/10 (15 September 2015)

The Truman Show is not a movie that one can just casually watch, it is a work of satire that manages to provoke thought in the heads of all people through its ability to show how powerful the media is, and what impacts it has on society.In order to achieve that message it goes on to inflate the lengths that we would go to entertain by creating a display of horrible ethics in the way that Truman was used without knowing or giving consent. The whole movie manages to be one big hyperbolic metaphor for the societal problems and manages to strive towards fixing them in a blame by praise format due to the way that they show how great the show is, even though they are being incredibly unethical. Even with the beauty of this film's satirical elements, the movie managed to show other incredible aspects in the form of Jim Carrey performing in a more sensible role with none of the slapstick that he is infamous for, and the other thing to consider is that the biggest of the movie impact is the popularity of reality television that was sparked by its release, and how those shows still dominate a plethora of channels to this very day.