This week we’re introducing Toni to a movie that I’ve always enjoyed, “The Truman Show”.
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People always say he didnt choose that life, but no one chose the life they were born in to.
HIGHLY recommend Stranger Than Fiction with Will Ferrell. It’s similar to this. Serious Drama Comedy. Existential crisis/discovery.
Also L.A. Story with Steve Martin is like that too.
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27:33 the boonies 😆
27:40 david is overwhelmed.
29:17 "does it?"
hmmm…
29:31 more proof for flat earthers. 🌏🚫
I love how this movie ended, honestly. Christof (the creator) keeps saying how important the show is for everyone – and we see how enraptured they all were watching it. But ultimately, the viewers just loved Truman and were happy to see him happy. Once the show ended, they quickly moved on, hence the last line. The only person who really 'needed' the Truman show was the one who controlled it. Kind of shows the delusion of power, in that he felt what he was doing was important to the world when in fact the world didn't care nearly as much as he did.
This is one of the very few movies that should never be re-made. It is a perfectly packaged movie.
Has the missus seen Back to the Future?
I don't think he has to worry about employment – he was the star of a top rated movie for decades. Even at union scale, he is owed a lot of back wages.
You should watch The Number 23. Another great Jim Carrey movie that was NOT a comedy.
I’m glad you watched this, and I’m glad you enjoyed it…but i think you only got half the point of the ending:
1. The part you got: How absurdly fickle people are; no matter how engrossed we may be in a story, once it ends we tend to shrug it off and move on to the next thing.
2. The part you didn’t get: Truman spent literally his entire life with the entire world watching and analyzing everything he did or said…but he finally broke free, to create his own destiny without being snooped on all the time. That includes not being snooped on by us, the real world audience, any longer.
Maybe he found Sylvia, maybe he didn’t. Maybe he had a successful career; maybe not. The point is that it’s not anyone else’s business…including ours: Just because we want to know doesn’t mean we have the right to know.
Great reaction, though! And dude, take your wife dancing!
The majority of people who watch this movie miss the point entirely. This is not a story about Truman per se (which is why there was no sequel and why it ended the way it did). This is a condemnation on society and the nature of truth and existence. Those who would seek to rule over the masses will attempt to do so by creating an alternate reality for them to live by. The current term we hear used a lot today is "gaslighting"; telling a person a false reality enough times that they begin to believe it and accept it as truth. Unfortunately the majority of people in this world are perfectly happy to walk around completely ignorant of the fact that they are being manipulated, even when things happen that would seem to contradict their reality (like when a stage light falls from the sky or you start hearing stage directions being broadcast from your car radio). The powers that be (think media, politicians, movie stars, etc.) are very quick to swoop in and "re-interpret" what you think you saw to try and keep you convinced that all is still right in the world they want you to accept.
But sooner or later you will get some people who begin to "wake up" and start to seriously question the contradictions they observe and will begin their own quest for truth. And like Kristof said in the film, if they really want to find the truth, there is nothing they can do to stop them.
I agree on liking this Jim Carrey role the best.
(On a side note, his small role in "Dead Pool", Jim is a character playing his character.)
The Toni Show. All Toni. All the time.
"That's a great tissue!"
The perfect ending—triumphant resolution for Truman, celebration from his fans, then…”What else is on?”
Like Toni, I have never been into Jim Carey – too over the top for me. But I saw the movie The Majestic years ago, and he was fantastic in it! I don't know why he doesn't take on more serious roles.
My follow up suggestion is "Stranger Than Fiction", which is a non-comedic role for Will Ferrell. While not my favorite character of his, definitely my favorite movie starring him. It has a similar vibe to "Truman Show", in which our main character feels like something is, well, strange. It's more of a romance, though, and one of my favorites. Very underrated, and as such not easy to find online. You'd have to track down a DVD.
Man on the moon is another good film by Carey. It’s about the life of Andy Kaufman.
The movie was directed by Peter Weir, who almost every movie he makes is awesome. Movies I would recommend:
Gallipoli about the horrific World War I battle.
The Year of Living Dangerously a romance set during civil unrest in Indonesia in the 1960s.
Witness, where Harrison Ford plays a cop investigating a murder witnessed by an Amish child.
The Mosquito Coast, again with Harrison Ford, about a man who takes his family to live away from civilization.
Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams as a teacher at an all-boys school.
Master and Commander about a British warship during the Napoleonic wars.