Summary:
From birth to adulthood, Truman Burbank has been starring in his own 24 hour television programme. Though the eyes of the world are upon him, he has no idea about the true reality of his existence. Strange occurrences, without any explanation, make Truman begin to suspect his friends, family and the world which he has lived in his entire life, may not be as real as it’s always seemed.
Analysis:
“The eruption of the Real within the symbolic order creates a destabilisation of our frameworks of understanding...Peter Weir’s film, The Truman Show provides a beautiful illustration of this process. Truman’s life (unknown to Truman) is totally constructed by a media mogul, Christo. All the people in Truman’s world are actors who play his friends, business colleagues, even his wife. His entire life is lived within a gigantic film set. However during the film incidents occur, like the crashing to earth of a large spotlight, which Truman finds totally bewildering, they puncture his understanding and create instability within the symbolic order of existence” (Hardy, 2011:155)
Hardy. T. (2006) Art education in a postmodern world: collected essays. Wiltshire: Intellect Books
Release:
1998
Director:
Peter Weir
Screenplay by:
Andrew Niccol
Produced By:
Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Adam Schroeder
Genre/subgenre:
Science Fiction, Drama, Comedy
Country:
United States
Cast:
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone
Selected Director Filmography:
The Cars That Ate Paris, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, Fearless, The Truman Show, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Way Back
Related Films:
The Matrix series, Inception, Tron, eXistenZ, Total Recall, Blade Runner, Abre los Ojos, Vanilla Sky, The Nines, Dark City, Synecdoche, New York
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