After a long drought, a great movie!

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2002)

I had an absence of serious movie viewing for about 6 years and this is the first movie that I saw after that period and I thought it would be worthy of my first imdb review. Jim Carrey, though he has great talent as an impressionist has not faired greatly in the movies. But this movie is a shining exception. It evokes the echoes of Network making us think about the television intensive world we live in. It predicts the proliferation of reality tv shows. And better yet it is a great time at the movies. You care about Truman. You want to break out like Truman. You want your life to have meaning like Truman does. You want to tell the world that you are as mad as h*ll and you aren't going to take the mediocrity that the tv spoon feeds every day to you. You feel a little more joyful and courageous about life because of the last 2 hours that you spent in the theater. The Truman Show is what the best movies are all about. Helping us to see something we need to see in a better light. What a great movie!