The Truman Show Review 楚门的世界影评

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THE TRUMAN SHOW REVIEW BY YAN ZIKUN
Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), born and bred in the artificial town of Seahaven, wherethere are five thousand mini-cameras hidden in plants, car radios, shirt buttons and the like. All these cameras are following every aspect of Truman's daily life and broadcasting it 24 hours every day to an eager world. Actors play his friends and relatives, while Christof (the director) manipulates this micro-reality from an office concealed behind the fake Moon. Suddenly, a series of on-set accidents appeared.Atheatrical light falls out of the sky and Truman's car radio picks up a conversation between the show's crew tracking his movements, those subtle abnormalities within his regular day-to-day life arouse Truman’s s uspicion. Then our hero starts to question the world around him.
The scene stoke me most intensely is when it approaches to the end, every audiences clapped and cheered for Truman’s freedom, and then came to the last sentence of this movie——What else is on? Where’s the TV Guide?That’s a poetic irony.
The idea behind The Truman Show is based off of Plato's Allegory of the Cave concept. It's a really brilliant way of displaying the ignorance of believing that one's own knowledge represents a comprehensive and definitive view of the entire world.Basically, Plato discusses a hypothetical situation in which someone spends their entire life chained up in a cave, facing a wall. Whenever a person walks by, the prisoner sees their shadow on the wall. Over time, the prisoner would begin to believe that the shadows are the people, because their perception of reality is so limited that they don't know any better.
One day, the prisoner is set free, and sees what people actually look like for the first time. It is at this moment that they understand that everything they thought they previously knew about reality was inaccurate.
This corresponds with the moment in which Truman realizes that his entire life was a scripted reality show, and that everything he previously believed to be sincere human behavior was all just acting.
Everyone can be Truman,。