Any viewing, any audience, superb.

Rating: 9/10 (24 June 2003)

This movie tends to elicit strong emotional responses. Who doesn't feel lost with Truman against that ocean?
Truman Show is a brilliant movie. Subject matter is equal parts entertainment culture and life in private bubbles, with some interesting side commentary about education, intelligence gathering, little white lies, family matters, mass marketing, and many things.
I'm not too pleased with the Academy Awards to say that Carrey, Harris, and Weir should have each received more than nominations for this. Some people have a quiet modesty about accepting and supporting the choices of the Academy Awards, and there is cultural impoliteness in reaction to criticism of Academy Award judgments. I no longer understand why people should feel modest about a system they do not take part in, but I can understand that people believe they've taken part in that system when its judgments reflect their own. In any case, sometimes seeing great artists receive nothing more than 'Lifetime Achievement' awards as a concession for the judges overlooking them for so long is not very rewarding. People who work very hard should receive at least recognition; people who are good at their work should be rewarded. When an actor's career is marked, as Carrey's is, by numerous upsets against the Academy's judgment, it becomes obvious that the Academy has seriously lost its way.