Review of The Truman Show (1998) by Huseyn B — 03 Oct 2012

Hero of the American paintings called Truman Burbank. Our viewers may have associations, perhaps, only to Harry Truman, the U.S. president, went down in history because it was he who ordered the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But for the Americans, who, by the way, with an unprecedented responded enthusiastically to tape Peter Weir with popular actor Jim Carrey, there are two clues can immediately feel the hidden irony of the narrative. Truman - sounds almost the same as True Man, that is a "real man", and the name of Burbank general is cinematic, as it is located in Burbank several Hollywood studios. Thus, in the first and last name of the main character is a paradox that becomes decisive for the movie "Truman Show" - are adjacent to the cinematic, authenticity combined with vydumannostyu.

Insurance salesman Truman Burbank, who lives like a puppet Siheyven town for 30 years, literally from the moment of its birth, is under scrutiny of cameras, in fact, is not aware of it, the true star of the series called "Truman Show" which is broadcast "live uncut 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the viewers of the Earth" (from the advertising slogan, sounding in the film.) Still giddy and careless Truman begins to notice some strange stuff and suspicious inconsistencies, which indirectly confirms the seemingly crazy phrases that once uttered by the sea his sweetheart Lauren Cancelled (actually - Actress Sylvia Garland: that's more one cinematic hint!): "All of this - a lie, and we only play their role.".

That is, after Shakespeare, the hero of "Truman Show" to discover in the end that all reality around him is really composed, would repeat: "The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors." Well, in the application of its own history of Truman Burbank, which was developed by the laws of the successful "soap opera", it would sound like this: "The whole world - as a show, and people - just a puppet." One for the time being invisible puppeteer telemagnate Christoph, also plays a special role - almost the creator (or, if we continue the Shakespearean allusions, Prospero "Storm"), manages the unreal world, which is placed in a large pavilion near Hollywood - while "neobuntar" Burbank do not try to open "new horizons" and it hits a painted sky. And then he will run away from this "paradise on earth", not wanting to listen to his exhortations Teleottsa and thus putting an end to the TV show's own name. At the ends and the movie "Truman Show.".

Before its release in theaters in the U.S. journalists and critics were some doubts that the second attempt of Jim Carrey, the most successful comedian mid-90's, the time to change their roles and appear in a black-comic, tragicomic quality will be as sweet adopted as the film "The Cable Guy" for two years before that. Incidentally, there has played Carrie obsessed TV technician, clients connect to cable television. He's still a child, they say, obsessed with the series, got hooked on this "teleiglu" and began to confuse reality with a fictional reality. However, the American public seems to gradually got used to the new mania of his idol, who wished not only to gag and pull a face, portraying another "dumb and dumber", but also inadvertently make citizens think about the stay-bytem, â.