THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) *** The social counterpart to the more political The Matrix. Those illuminated veins running through the darkness of a framework that must have boundaries, somewhere. Jim Carrey's life is filmed moment to moment, with actors and sets and without his knowing about it, and broadcast worldwide as a television show. Well, I guess we've all thought about such possibilities, especially as children. As adults maybe we're more inclined to hope that we aren't boring God. Jim's life's unbelievably boring, which makes this something of a prophecy with regard to the incoming "reality tv" wave. So Jim's life opportunities and decisions are largely shaped by the producers, as ours are by family and culture. When Jim discovers the fraud, will he break free? Will you, will I? If I think that I already have, wouldn't that make it less likely that I really will? Natascha McElhone plants enough on him that he's ready to...climb every mountain and ford every stream, you know what I mean. I'm glad. They say that there's someone for everyone. I don't know if that's true, but I do know that nothing makes me happier than that I've found mine. And then keep running together. Never stop.
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