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The Truman Show [Region 2] | ![The Truman Show [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510HPCM1VWL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor
Category: DVD
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Rating:  486 reviews
Sales Rank: 281679
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), Czech (Original Language), Hungarian (Original Language), Polish (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: P451448
EAN: 4010884514483
ASIN: B00005R69F
Theatrical Release Date: June 5, 1998
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The whole world is watching--literally--every time Truman Burbank makes the slightest move. Unbeknownst to him, in this hauntingly funny film by Peter Weir, his entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows--including his mother, his wife, and his best friend--is really an actor, paid to be part of his life. In this intriguing and surprisingly touching 1998 film, writer Andrew Niccol imagines an ultimate kind of celebrity, then sees it brought to life with comic intensity and emotional honesty by Jim Carrey in what may be the performance of his career. Carrey has exceptional support from Laura Linney and Ed Harris, but it's his show, in a portrayal that demonstrates just what kind of range Carrey is capable of. --Marshall Fine
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 Great movie, excellent transfer February 6, 2010
Michael J. Sorensen (Eagle Mountain, UT United States)
This is one of my favorite movies, and I am excited to have a good HD copy.
CARREY SHINES ONCE MORE February 1, 2010
fmwaalex (Austin, TX USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
THE TRUMAN SHOW
We as a people seem to be obsessed with watching other people's lives as if ours is not good enough, it is called reality TV. Sure some watch it to see people more pathetic then themselves but for the most part people watch other people because they feel their lives are more interesting. Whatever the reason ther3e was a movie that kind of touched on that type of thing and may give a look into what may be the future of reality TV. Of course when this film was released a lot of people doubted it because Jim Carrey was acting more serious, how dare he. Well to those who thought that I hope they eventually saw this because it really is good, how dare they to doubt.
Truman Burbank is one of the best guys in the world who is loved by all and he gives that love back. He is the most polite and happy guy ever who has a nice life with a wife and best friend who love him. Or so he thought as his obsession with a lost love drives him to question what is real or fake. As he digs deeper and deeper things get riskier because he may find something he really does not want to know. His life as he knows it may have all been planned including his wife. Everyone around him seems to be in on it except the lady he so longingly wants to find. She is the one person who tried to tell him the truth, and as he tries to find the truth and leave the entire town tries to keep him there. It turns out that everything in his life is fake and he is forced to live out his life in this little bubble of a world, his life predetermined for him. A TV producer who adopted him as a new born has created a whole world around him and made him grow up there. It really is one of the most interesting films I have seen because this film may truly happen.
Jim Carrey is absolutely brilliant in this dramatic comedy showcases both sides of the actor all in the same film. The film does have its comedic moments especially the first half of the film but it is the dramatic stuff were Carrey truly shines. For those who have not seen this he truly gives an award winning performance in my opinion. There is a scene in particular that really shows the pain and struggle of the character. In this scene he appears to be beaten when his boat reaches the end, it is a short scene but it is great. He shows excellent range in this film because up to this point in his career he was truly looked at as just a comedian.
Ed Harris as always is excellent and is brilliant in the lead villain role of a TV producer who wants nothing but ratings. He will go to any lengths to make his show a success and any lengths to keep Truman inside his world. Harris is perfect in this role even making him seem human at times. Laura Linney plays his wife in this film and is great, bringing life to a role were she is an actress, love it. Noah Emmerich as well is great in the film as his best friend; Paul Giamatti and Adam Tomei also are good as assistants to the producer. Everyone in the film do a great job as people who are all actors, I wonder if that was hard.
Written marvelously by Andrew Niccol this truly is a great film that mixes a perfect balance of different types of films. I can find moments for comedies, dramas, action, suspense, even horror because to be honest it is like one big Twilight Zone story. This film could have been a straight up comedy or a complete drama or even a really darker film, and all of them would have worked even with the same cast. While all those would have worked I happen to like the film director Peter Weir gave us. I highly recommend this movie because I have always enjoyed from day one. Skip the rental and buy this like I did, I think any movie goer will appreciate this film. Also there is an excellent and very in-depth behind the scenes feature on here.
The Truman Show: Fully Reviewed January 30, 2010
Michael A. Garcia (Miami)
The Truman Show, though funny at points, deals with a serious theme. Like Plato's Allegory of the Cave, this film deals with a similar situation with a modern twist. The film is the epitome of America's obsession with reality television. The film was released when shows like Survivor and Trading Spaces were conquering the airwaves. How far could reality TV. actually get? The Truman Show, undoubtedly, would be the result.
The film deals with Truman, a man that was abandoned at birth and was adopted by a television corporation. His life was turned into a TV show as he grew up in an artificial town known as Seahaven. Its creator is Christof, who oversees the day to day pseudo-reality of Truman's life. In many ways, he represents the ultimate modern man. He calls himself the creator, but unlike God, his creation is all artificial. The entire TV show revolves around Truman, and the only way to make this possible is to have absolute control of Truman's surroundings. This not only includes the town in which he lives, but the people he comes in contact with and even the weather itself is manipulated to fit the desires of the shows producers, depending on the mood they want to set for a specific episode.
The cost to obtain high ratings comes at a heavy price - Truman's freedom. From the moment of his birth, his life was already decided before him. Everything from his job, his wife and even his father's death, was all scripted. He doesn't even have the freedom to choose to be with the one's he loves most. In the film, he falls in love with Sylvia, who at the time was playing her role as Lauren. As time passes, he tries to seek her out, and when he finally does, they meet secretly in a beach where Sylvia tries to tell Truman that his life is a TV show, but before the message was able to sink in, Sylvia was taken by another cast member to keep her from revealing the truth. Off the show, Sylvia continues to fight the producers of the show by making phone calls, persuading them of the immoral and dehumanizing effects of the show. Truman's longing for Sylvia was his ticket to freedom. During the course of time, since his separation from Sylvia, Truman begins to piece together cut-outs of magazines by taking eyes, mouths, noses, ears and hair from different models to create the image of Sylvia's face. Explicitly, this image represents his longing and love for Sylvia. Implicitly, however, the face he created is the face of freedom. In a sense, Sylvia, for Truman, becomes Lady Liberty. Like immigrants arriving on Ellis Island, the first face Truman would see once he is free from his bondage, would be the face of his Lady Liberty, Sylvia, who at the end of film rushes to greet him into the real world.
Truman's main journey in the film is the discovery of truth. Similar to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Truman must search beyond his surroundings and day to day routines to discover the true nature of his identity. These people and surroundings he comes in contact with constitute his own shadows. These shadows are his world of ordinary things, but if he is to discover the truth of the real world, he must step beyond his own cave into the natural light.
It is man's curious nature which leads him to wonderment. One of my favorite moments in the movie is when Truman asks Christof "Was nothing real?" Christof tells Truman "You were real." Truman was the only one in Seahaven who was authentic. This, thus, brings us to the notion of authenticity and inauthenticity. In many ways, Christof was right; Truman was the only real person (i.e. authentic). Even Christof himself was not living an authentic life. He had fooled himself into thinking that he was some type of god who can control people's lives. Truman desires freedom so much that he yells out for Christof: "If you want to stop me, you'll have to kill me!" As Truman fights for his life amidst the raging storm, an employee implores Christof to cease the storm. He tells him "You're going to kill him in front of a live audience!" To this Christof indifferently responds, "He was born before a live audience." Christof has played the role of God so long that he lost his own authenticity and picked up an artificial one.
Another similar and interesting character is Meryl, the actress that plays Truman's wife. Not only is she a puppet for Christof, but she sells her body for higher ratings. She tries to persuade Truman to have a child with her which would undoubtedly have the same fate as his father. There's no doubt that Meryl would have received a great bonus if she were able to conceive a child on live television. The moral applications to this would be absurd. The meaning of sex would be reduced for the sake of higher ratings. In many ways, this is more implicitly degrading than pornography. When Truman refuses to have a child, and Meryl leaves the show, the producers are forced to hire a new actress to play the role of Truman's love interest. It almost sounds like they're hiring a prostitute with an acting degree. All this trouble for the sake of becoming the first television show to feature the very first live conception.
At the movies end, Christof, in an attempt to persuade Truman to stay, tells him that the world out there is the sick world. He tells him that by staying here in this artificial world he can provide safety. Ultimately, however, Christof cannot control human freedom. He may have had eyes throughout the entire set, but as Truman so emotionally put it: "You've never had a camera inside my head." Truman's desire to be free and authentic leads him to say those famous words which put an end to his inauthentic career: "In case I don't see you, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night."
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Oh, that I could be so lucky as to have Truman's life. Not only does he get to break the spell of consumerism with which we're so bewitched, enslaved by, really. In Truman's "reality," there really is somebody behind the controls and he's actually a very sweet man. The wizard, in fact, is not a munchkin gone power-mad, but just a down-on-his-luck fellow stuck in a box for so long that the touch of a woman is but a distant, stained-glassed memory.
Everybody Loves Truman! What's there to complain about: Are you trying to tell me, Mr. Weir, (you, whose hippie-dippy "The Mosquito Coast" found Han Solo getting preachy, stuck in some frozen-in-carbonite jungle planet dreamworld), that we don't all want to be superstars, gawked at by every living human breathing thing? Do I instead want to discover that my life as an empty consumer chaneling my techno-slave ethics is merely due to somebody pushing a series of buttons behind the temporal screen? And I can forsake that and go meet my merry, beret-encrusted maker in Booth 33. And once ultimately in heaven, to then sit on a gooey cloud and weave tinkles from a 150-pound solid gold harp forever and ever and ever.
I would much rather talk to you through my shaving mirror, wittious, without restraint, oh so very amusing in my "innocent" ways. Forrest Gump teams up with The Prisoner in this hapless, "Thelma & Louise" for the manly man's soul. Tarzan with a twinkle in his eye and a gymnastically inclined eyebrow and a tie hanging from his neck, a robotic Gomer Pyle spreading bland cheer like a throat coughs up the bubonic plague. Blindfolded ministers riding hamsters through the dark alleys with roses in their teeth, forest fires in their hearts.
Saddest of all is how, with nary a quickened pulse, we demote the role of a human to a laboratory animal as a form of wholesome entertainment. No wonder we're going to hell in a ham basket, folks.
Diabolical but brilliant! December 31, 2009
Medusa (Troy, MI)
From the opening interview with Christoph, the creator of The Truman Show, where he very quickly and rather arrogantly states: "Yes, It is staged but it is not fake" I was hooked. Gott in himmel (god in heaven)!, what could that possibly mean? I suppose Cristoph the creator and producer is telling us that, even though every aspect of Truman's life is staged, his reaction to the scripted events are real. While he may have a point it occurred to me that perhaps Cristoph could predict within a fairly specific range of possible reactions, how Truman might react to a particular stimulus. So are we all being played?
What do we learn from the masses who are watching Truman's life as it unfolds? Do they see in the scripting of his life, how scripted and mundane their own lives have become? Do they yearn to break free from the yoke of routine, of sameness or do they, in fact, find some comfort and safety in routine? How will they react as Truman discovers the truth about his life? Sit down, enjoy the ride and prepare your brain and your preconceived notions about what is life and living to be twisted painfully in the wind!
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