has anyone seen this? Not a super super movie, but the underlying message was powerful. I feel as though this movie would make a great discussion about the meaning of life and since I am having a quarter life crisis it seems like the perfect time.
has anyone seen this? Not a super super movie, but the underlying message was powerful. I feel as though this movie would make a great discussion about the meaning of life and since I am having a quarter life crisis it seems like the perfect time.
Each of our 'realities' are a series of crafted events-from our govt, media, parents. We're just as ignorant as Truman
I'm going to get a little over the top now. But most authors and directors who produce social commentaries such as this are kind of lashing out. However, they never provide any answers. So they are just as trapped as anyone else even though they think they have beat the system. How is criticizing society any more noble than being a participant in it?
There are no answers, and the critics are of course participants in society.
That being said, I'm not sure I see many deep parallels to our society beyond a criticism of reality TV. Care to explain what you see in this movie that I'm missing?
TTS was more than a commentary on a voyeuristic society. Whether or not you bought the premise it forced each viewer to ask themselves the fundamental question "is what I believe to be reality real?" And once you have asked that question, you can never completely answer it.
drunk and pretentious wrote:
TTS was more than a commentary on a voyeuristic society. Whether or not you bought the premise it forced each viewer to ask themselves the fundamental question "is what I believe to be reality real?" And once you have asked that question, you can never completely answer it.
I'm not sure if it went quite that deep,(for the Matrix I'd say that), but it certainly had its moments. Truman certainly knew which honey he wanted.
After seeing this movie as a child I was too busy being paranoid that my life was a big lie like truman to start thinking about the underlying messages.
Took me a few years to get over that...
Read Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and it is clear that the Truman Show is based directly on this famous work of Plato.
A very engaging film about how we perceive the world around us and our notions of reality.
nwmaster wrote:
Read Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and it is clear that the Truman Show is based directly on this famous work of Plato.
A very engaging film about how we perceive the world around us and our notions of reality.
Directly? I don't recall Jim Carey's antics portrayed in Allegory of the Cave. Let's not get carried away here.
You can say the same for the Matrix as well as Inception. Both are allegory of the cave-esque.
I just had a dream in which I was posting on a website forum. And there were others posting on this website forum. And we were all enslaved to this one website forum and thought it was the font of all knowledge. And nobody got information from anywhere else, not books, not classes, not TV, not seeing people, not other websites, just this one website forum, in fact, posters had heard about these other sources of information but no one had ever experienced them. And everyone thought that this one website forum represented all there was to reality. . . .