"The Truman Show" is a satire about a man named Truman Burbank, whose life is the world's most popular television show.

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2017)

Truman Burbank (played by Jim Carrey) has lived in the small town of Seahaven his entire life. He has a supportive mother, a loving wife, a fun best friend, and a tragic backstory; his life is practically a television show, complete with product placement, too-enthusiastic actors, and the fact that, no matter how hard he tries, Truman can't leave his hometown. Eventually, he begins to realize exactly what's going on. Christof, a producer, comes up with the genius idea to create a reality show centering around Truman's staged, perfectly drama-filled life. Everybody in Seahaven is an actor, except for Truman. It takes him years to figure out what exactly is going on, but once he discovers the truth about his life, he begins trying to escape his utopia. This satirical film shines a light on the objectification that media stars are exposed to every single day. Truman's television show is broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week every day since he was born. This is a direct hit at how celebrities are constantly being observed and analyzed by the general public. There is a clear audience being targeted by the making of this film, and it is, ironically enough, everybody watching the film. The movie is meant to show audiences just how detrimental their objectification of television and movie stars really is to the people in front of the camera. The film gets this message across extraordinarily well, many thanks to Jim Carrey, who has audiences both in the film and real life rooting for him to leave the world his producers created for him, and start making his own.