Unusually intelligent Jim Carrey movie - a provocative and prescient media satire. Puts Big Brother and the current spate of docu-soaps firmly into perspective
Truman Burbank (Carrey is a happily married insurance salesman living a normal life in a small American town so perfect that he has never felt the need or desire to leave it. He has a loving wife (Linney, and a loyal best buddy (Emmerich. Life is good until one morning a stage light drops from the skies and shatters on the ground perilously close to him. It is the trigger that sets him questioning everything around him. What is behind the facades of the buildings he has never entered? Why do people seem to be travelling around him in a perfectly synchronized loop? What is going on outside his home-town? Truman is, it turns out, the unwitting star of a top-rated 24-hour-a-day TV docu-soap.
Under the careful critical scrutiny to which it has been subjected, the plot turns out not to be watertight. This is to miss the point of what is a hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire which also allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy.
The Truman Show is also oddly moving and has, as you would expect from a Weir film, a pronounced metaphysical slant with Ed Harris playing the show"s archly named producer/creator Christof.
Verdict
One of the cinematic highlights of the 1990s, The Truman Show is up there with Weir"s very best work.
楚门是个普通人,普通得就像生活在我们身边。他有许多的,又很容易满足。因此,他有时欣喜若狂,有时如丧考妣,大多的时候则彷徨郁闷,不知所措。这时,天才的导演又有了用武之地,他不断地制造新的刺激,使他的长剧变得波澜起伏,吊人胃口。他在楚门快乐的时候便给他制造些麻烦,在其沮丧的时候,则不失时机地给其开启一线生机。他让金发女郎如言情小说般突然出现在楚门的视线中,开启他爱欲的阀门,又让她突然离去,使其心灵坠入无底的深渊;他让楚门从未谋面的“已故父亲”突然现身,夸张滑稽的相认场面令其热泪盈眶,同时也赚取了电视观众的热泪;他又让楚门的知心朋友在其情绪恶劣的时候去关怀他、开导他,令其感受到这“荒漠中的甘泉”而重生信心,虽然那位朋友只是一个演员,而且正背着大段台词……
很佩服电影中那位才华横溢、不可一世的天才导演,他让人想到了上帝,同时看到那个软弱、疲惫、徨惑的楚门被一次次的虚伪所玩弄,还是对生活和前途充满了乐观时,我的内心就一阵阵地酸楚,我不忍面对——不忍面对一个真实的“我们”!
“人生如戏,戏如人生”,哲人如此感叹,但人生舞台上的演员——我们,是不是时刻都有一种演戏的自觉呢?还是在上帝的欺瞒和安排下,忘我地做着无意义的事呢?快乐,不
足以使我们热爱这个世界;挫折,不足以使我们抛弃这个世界。上帝就像那个天才的导演一样,掌握着很好的度,他知道该在何时给我们当头一棒,何时又给我们烧起暖暖的火炉,他使我们在痛苦中保持希望,在希望中忍受痛苦,因为痛苦制造着剧情的波澜,也制造着收视率,希望则是赏给我们的出场费,使我们不至于中途罢演。
电影的末尾,楚门是觉悟了的,他对着摄影机,真的向“上帝”罢演了。天才的导演恐慌了,他将失去观众,他竭力挽留楚门,告诉他离开了导演控制的世界是很危险的.,但楚门还是走出了那扇门,走向那个黑漆漆的未知世界,他说不管那个世界中等待他的是什么,他都不在乎。佛家有“顿悟”一说,并说人的本性自足圆满,是人世的尘埃覆盖了它,使它迷失。看来楚门是顿悟了,他要找回那个失去的自我,那个自足圆满、自由自在的本性。
《金刚经》语:“凡所有相,皆是虚妄,若见诸相非相,则见如来。”戏装迟早要褪去,布景也迟早要撤下,演戏的时候则生龙活虎地演一场,只是别忘了过过看戏的瘾,随时让另一个“我”——本我,走下舞台,在观众席上,呷一口茶,看看戏台上的“我”和“他们”,鼓几下掌,流几滴泪,明白了这一点,便接近顿悟了。其实,我们跨不跨出那扇门又有什么关系?因为我们的心灵已经跨了出去。
On the afternoon of October 28, the weather was particularly sunny. The day I had been looking forward to for two weeks finally came. Today, we are going to the emergency rescue training base of the Municipal Red Cross Society to learn first aid knowledge and skills.
We took a bus to our destination. First of all, the volunteers of the Municipal Red Cross Society explained to us the origin, functions and components of the Red Cross movement.
From his introduction, I know that may 8 is the World Red Cross Day every year. The bright red red cross represents the spirit of humanity, fraternity and dedication. Then, we started the practical operation. The first one was cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Volunteers introduced the operation process of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and simulated first aid.
Secondly, volunteers also teach us four skills of trauma rescue: hemostasis, dressing, fixation and handling. When learning hemostatic bandage, volunteers showed us triangular towel head bandage, stirring rod bandage, etc. Finally, we carry out practical operation.
Under the careful guidance of volunteers, we studied very hard, and everyone mastered these first-aid skills.
Time passed quickly, and the afternoons study soon came to an end, and the students were still not satisfied. Before I took part in this activity, I didnt know what the Red Cross did, and I never wanted to know it. Through this afternoons study, I deeply felt that the Red Cross Society is really great. I want to inherit its spirit and be a loving person. Thank you very much for allowing me to participate in such a meaningful activity!
When I first saw 'The Truman Show' I came out of the theatre amazed. This is your first clue that you are watching something different from your normal Jim Carrey movie. I love the dialogue, camera shot, performances, direction, music, and running time of this movie. There is nothing I would do to change it. I came away from 'The Truman Show' feeling inspired which is the goal of good filmmaking Jim Carrey was outstanding as Truman, underplaying him, not making him too comic or too dramatic, but giving true sincerity when asked. He deserved an Oscar nomination. Ed Harris has always been a good actor, but in this movie he's a great actor. He plays Christof with such arrogance and bullheadedness that you don't know whether he's helping or destroying Truman. He and the director, Peter Weir, deserved their Oscar nods.
Weir, who directed the great 'Witness', uses different camera angles to make you feel like you're actually watching 'The Truman Show' and not a movie. He ends it before you get tired of the concept and helped Carrey and Harris give immaculate performances. Andrew Niccol script is a real star in the movie too because of it's inventiveness and ingenuity. Overall, 'The Truman Show' is what I like to call a true American classic.
I'm Lily and I want to invite all my classmates from class 71 to my birthday party.T
he party will take place at my house on April 26th.
There will be Chinese food, drinks, and games. Hope everyone can come.
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