The Triumph of Free Will

Rating: 10/10 (24 May 2005)

There is something very emotionally affecting when you watch someone slowly start to realize that they are caged. How Truman was totally controlled by a corporation. What they insisted to call real, yet controlled. It was controlled in that this young boy's (Truman) father was taken away from him, he was deprived the joys of growing up with a father, not because it was his father's time to go, but because a board of advisers thought it would be good drama, and would help to keep him where he was. In their prison. It doesn't matter that Seahaven Island might in fact be the greatest place on Earth, and that the real world is "this sick place". Truman should still be afforded the luxury of choice that we all have. And when you consider that he didn't even get to choose the girl that he married, it makes you feel that much more for him. And I think there is SOME truth to the statement that "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented." At least, Christof wasn't so blind that he actually realized, "He could leave anytime, if this was more than just a vague ambition, if he really truly wanted to leave, there's no way we could stop him." He was right.
The line that I believe defines this movie, "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented." My personal favorite, "I like your pin (How's it going to end?), I was wondering that myself."