It's a great moment at the end where Truman just parrots back what he'd been trained to say every day. The Director wanted a real human moment, and Truman gave him the artificial stuff he'd been shoveling the whole time.
I have relatives who are schizophrenics, [they] have never seen this movie, but they say mocking the voices helps a lot. Getting back at the people listening.
Then why didn't he just made Slyvia's Truman's love interest on the show so she wouldn't get kicked off and rebel against The Truman Show. It's perfectly clear that Truman really loves her and never really loved that woman they did hook him up with in the first place.
It's a good line, but actually one of the few in the whole movie that I felt was delivered poorly. It seemed too quick a response to be natural to me. Someone who didn't have that line ready to go from the script would have paused to think about what was said and come up with a response.
@@_Stormfather nah, sometimes I have thoughts like this and a good line emerges. It's then held in reserve for when relevant and then comes off as witty and fast thinking when actually it was preconceived
The fact is we are all imprisoned since birth and the prisonward is yourself. Exactly like in the movie we think we are free, but are we?( The lie we live: th-cam.com/video/dNVZ0ZPfE8s/w-d-xo.html )
There's always been a minority willing to criticize and protest against the corporate fascist United States. Even today, real critical thinking Americans know that their country started the 2014 Ukraine crisis. Not 2022 Russia.
Always thought that this movement wasn't a minority, but the hosts of show were convincing everyone that they are, so that people will think that they're powerless
@@ekaterinaobraztsova4631 Honestly, this is a realistic take. especially based on the level of media manipulation we have today. it's also more optimistic for faith in humanity, suggesting that a larger portion of people think that the show is immoral.
It’s kind of funny how he called the time where he lost his first tooth an episode, he doesn’t actually know Truman, he hasn’t seen him in real life. He just watches him like everybody else
I remember watching this when it came out and I was thinking 'Who would want to have someone follow them around with a camera all day long?' And now we have family youtubers who basically do the same to their kids...
I like how Truman doesn't give Christoff what he wants. It robs Christoff of that rare direct conversation he's never had with Truman. He saw himself as the father figure who was entitled to Truman's private thoughts, only to be given a bland TV catchphrase that he ultimately deserved.
Its because he unwind everything the usual.as the show goes on he knew if he twisted the world backwards he will get information that made him realize that it was all controlled
Exactly. “He wants to stay.” Literally traumatizing him as a child by killing his dad off by drowning, so that he becomes too scared to cross a bridge.
Funny how Christoph seriously believes that having Truman permanently imprisoned, kept ignorant of the truth and thoroughly robbed of his ability to stride on his own behalf is not only something he'd find preferable, but the very act of doing something like that to him is supposed to come off as some sort of fatherly love on his side. Lying and manipulating someone, both mentally and physically, is not love, but possessiveness. A cage is still a cage, no matter how far you stretch the bars and walls.
Maybe the whole movie was an abusive relationship metaphor. Keeping someone isolated from the rest of the world and convincing them and yourself that it's an expression of love.
@Busy Bodies! Not really. Truman is literally trapped inside a gilded cage where everyone is lying to him and actively preventing him from reaching his freedom. He's a prisoner and the people around him are his jailors. By contrast, most people genuinely love their pets and in case of dogs and cats, their owners usually give them free reign in and outside the house. They can actually leave any time they want -- and in most cases they do, but they always come back because it's their home, not their prison, and their owners are family in their eyes, not their jailors. If an owner trusts their pet enough to give them the freedom to leave, and the pet either stays or chooses to come back, that's usually a sign that their pets don't want to leave their family or their home. The only exception would be pets that are abused but physically prevented from leaving or have been so thoroughly broken by the abuse that they no longer even care about freedom. That's what Truman was -- an abused pet prevented from leaving but was far too strong to let himself be restrained, broken or domesticated.
@Busy Bodies! He kept coming back? How? He never left. He lived all his life inside a cage until the very end where he finally chose his freedom over his cage. When he realised that his entire life was a lie, that all his friends and family were liars and never actually cared about him, he took control of his own life and decided to leave, especially after learning the truth from Christof who actually tried to persuade Truman to remain being his prisoner. That's what Truman was -- a prisoner. Pets like dogs or cats aren't being manipulated into thinking they are free; most of the time they are fully capable of leaving but they choose not to because they understand that they have a home and people that care for them. Or let me just put it like this: The difference between a pet and a prisoner is that pets have a home to return to whereas an escaped prisoner would never willingly go back to prison.
@Busy Bodies! What lie? What are you even talking about? Their owners genuinely love and care for them. They aren't being held prisoners -- they're being given food, warmth, love and shelter. Their owners give them everything they'd ever need and they take nothing away from them. An owner's love towards their pet is genuine. Truman wasn't even Christof's pet; he was Christof's prisoner, nothing more. Like I said in my original post, Christof's treatment of Truman wasn't done out of love but pure possessiveness. Had Christof truly loved Truman, he would have never turned Truman's life into a mockery and he wouldn't have tried to stop Truman from leaving once he began acting out. Everything Christof ever did for Truman, he did for himself.
The costuming in this scene is really interesting. Sylvia is dressed in horizontal-striped pyjamas, almost like a prison uniform, representing the prison that she views Truman to be trapped in. Behind her we can see Truman depicted behind bars in the activist posters. Christof's clothing is an all black outfit with a splash of white at his throat. Reminiscent of a vicar or a priest. A religious leader. And then we have Truman himself. Dressed in colours that tonally match Sylvia's. But his are plainer. More like a patient in a mental hospital than a prisoner. If Truman were to believe what Christof and the actors on the show tell him, he'd then have to acknowledge himself as insane. If Truman were to believe what Sylvia tells him, he'd have to acknowledge himself as a prisoner.
everybody who loved the show was happy for him leaving, despite the fact that the TV show dictated their life. After he left, it was just a matter of switching the channel
The one thing that I hate most, is when Truman asks: So none of this was real? And Christoff says: No. But, you were A lie. It was a version of Truman shaped by the surroundings made by Christoff. The real Truman lies beyond that door.
Arguably we are all shapes by our surroundings, even if we have free choice. So Christoff wasn't lying if we believe that the true version of ourselves is just the version that believes we are making our free choices. Then Truman is more real or fake in or out of the show. It's his surroundings that are a lie until he leaves
@@GDI-disc-accepted You know by your logic writers for films or TV shows shouldn't put any thought at all into ANYTHING they write. All that commenter did was just said how they liked how the scene was constructed.
As someone whose best friend is a lawyer, I would be getting in touch with Truman as soon as possible. Then, over a few beers and some therapy, we would file the most colossal lawsuit this planet has ever seen ha!
The laws in this world are clearly different from our own. In real life, such a show would never be allowed to happen in the first place. Because the laws are different, and because it was allowed to happen, I don't know how much success you'd be having with that lawsuit
@@_Stormfather perhaps you're unaware that the freemasons and illuminati, who are affiliated with Hollywood, are doing to us what's being done in the Truman Show, so if you really think humanity (or rather the lizard people) isn't capable of a charade of this calibre...Well, just wait till the Messiah comes and see the magic for yourself.
@@aviad4878 Wow, there's so much insanity in that comment that I don't know where to start. I'll just recommend that you see a psychologist and get some help.
Boy did I love Christoph's performance. He in his different monologues gave me so many different perspectives on my own belief. He is scary at times but also heartwarming and soothing. What an actor and what a character.
Apparently Dennis Hopper was originally going to play Christoff, and as much as I love Dennis Hopper, nobody could've played it as well as Ed Harris did.
I just noticed that the striped pajamas Sylvia is wearing while she argues with Christoff about Truman's situation resemble an old-fashioned prison uniform. Very subtle metaphor for the "prison" she is trying to save him from. (Or possibly a suggestion that she herself is trapped, as Christoff suggests, even though she lives in the real world.) Great touch.
@Naxiro he doesn't think to trick him, because he doesn't think it's a lie. As far as he's concerned, it's no more fake than the real world. It just happens to be televised. He thinks that if he can convince Truman to see it his way, Truman will go on living his life as he always has. He would know he's being filmed, but would take it in stride and live his life out happily anyway. Of course, he's a psychopath and there's no way Truman would see it his way. But that's what he thinks
I love the "I am the creator" guy **playing** at being God (and seeking to keep Truman trapped) while his former girlfriend is, literally, praying to the REAL God to help him achieve his freedom.
@@PartialViewmusic We, humanity, are absolutely clueless when it comes to the overall scheme of things. Perhaps it gives you peace of mind to accept in your heart that something doesn't exist, but that puts you in the same train of thought as one that is religious. The average modern day scientist is crippled because they refuse to think big and expand their horizons.
I feel this.understand your true energy.the energy that keeps us at 1 theres alot of energy that makes u jump from 1 to 4 to 7 and on.we are always supposed to maintain @ 1.
Am I an idiot for not realizing until now that the music in this scene is actually diegetic? In an earlier scene we are shown the guy in the studio at the synthesizer. The music isn't for our benefit, the people in the movie can hear it. It's meant to manipulate the people watching the show and Truman himself into siding with Christof!
When we think about it, in this movie Sylvia is probably a former British actress in real life. Thus why her character in the show and her real self talk differently.
@@bradmodd7856 Not really, her character in the movie IS British as well. You can first hear her accent during the beach scene with Truman, when she tells him the truth and gets taken away.
The moon means suffocating" the whole thing just means even God is trapped in a program.God is everything he is everywhere all things if he wants he can play any character he can be an architect in any world he creates.its so much.i love to dig deeper in my own observation but i mean its nothing but Gold(understanding)
@@marcocoelho4258 remember when the projectile struck the moon and it rang like a bell? It's hollow so very well could be Central Ops for earth's daily operations.
It always bothered me how meticulous they were with keeping Truman trapped and not have him find out the truth. This woman was a cast member that had feelings for Truman and because of the risk that she may blow their cover they take her off the set.
Truman Show is a great movie. There are a lot of movies I would like to buy that are on DVD and this is one of them. I hope some of these companies remake these DVD's and they sell them so I can own them.
He should get a thumbs up, this way he can own his own copy ! Right now . the medium of movies are starting to be controlled by Netflix. What happens when these multimedia companies decide to stop showing a movie forever. They want to control what u and I watch. With a DVD , or better yet a VHS tape that u can hold in your hand!
A lot of people where he went, the thought of it is endless. Imagine people either swarm because of his status. His life could have went in so many places, that's why it was put there. No matter what ending, people would get angry. This one leaves people guessing.
the ending can never be happy, even if truman leaves the show he will spend the rest of his life in fear that nothing is real. its nearly impossible for us to comprehend what that would do to a human, give me chills
We don't get to see what happens after he leaves because his whole goal was to be away from the cameras and get back the privacy he deserved. In the same way no one had the right to watch his life, we have no right to see what happens after
@samfletcher8338 he must be *severly* traumatized, I agree, but it still has a place for a bittersweet ending. Like, seeking therapy, getting away from that terrible society and finally leading a quiet life
Exactly, Truman might never trust people again bc what if he is still being watched or the person who he bumped into down the street was actually an actor.
Am I the only one who catches the fact that her pajamas are striped? Sort of a metaphor for how she feels “the prisoner” Truman is. Great subtle detail.
Fun fact: the host of the call-in program is none other than Harry Shearer, voice of Smithers, Mr Burns, Ned Flanders, and countless other Simpsons characters.
You can create the real word in your house , by letting reap the consequences of their actions or inactions , if they don’t cook , let them go hungry , if the don’t wash clothe , let them be dirty , if they don’t pay rent ,CHUCK THEM OUT , you are enabling them to act as children
@@darthimperious1594 Yep yep. The look of shock on Christof's (Christ-Off or fake Christ) face when he for the very first time realizes that True Man has free will after all, is SO satisfying.
Tom Lee - heh - there was laughter in the theater when we saw this. Just enough of a pause there to condescend to the audience: "see? see what this guy thinks he is?"
@@ronaldchieron3416 Wow that' is cool. Thanks for that. But I was wondering in that moment if tablet devices go back to 1998, I was still using a desk top but laptops were the new thing back then and I don;t recall the small tablets. But you did touch a topic that does interest me. If I recall correctly Clarke had a fax machine in Childhood's End wriiten in 1953. And too many from Gene Roddenberry to get into.
This feels exactly like the time in a mans life when he wants to break free from his parents clutch. The perfect world they laid out for him. The plans they have for him. The emotional blackmail they use to prevent him from leaving the world they made for him and the life they want him to lead. Trumans last words in this scene will surely be what ill say to my father as i leave. “In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night... :D”
Oof, not about parents. It’s about the clutches of society. Don’t leave your parents kids, they only wanted the best for you and you must support them in your old age.
@@ionthegreat13 I could take issue with a number of things you said there, but I'm most concerned about you claiming that you "must" support them in their old age. Says who? Show me the law or other objective evidence that determines what I am required to do with my life
It was not perfect just an illusion. His wife didn't loved him and was really unhappily married, his "best friend" also didn't care for him and just repeated lines from a script. He was never allowed to make his happiness, but instead he was forced to live the idea of someone else perfect life.
Actually, the Truman Show looks a lot like the first Matrix that appeared to be "perfect" in the eyes of the Archiquect (inside this movie, in the eyes of creator)
Difference to Matrix is, that every person in Truman show was an actor, while almost the entire humanity in Matrix was real people not knowing what happens. They all was "Trumans". And they couldn't leave on their own without help, as there was no way.
Yes. Consider the fake marriage. All those TS-fan-nerds do not think ANYTHING to the end. Would love to see the CONTRACT, the actress playing / living his "wife" would have to sign. "Mrs X has to be sexually available for Mr Truman Burbank at least twice a week." And so on. I love Peter Weir but this movie is just plain stupid.
@@wickedshadesproductions5254 they switched the channel as soon as it went off the air. That was the point. We watch the sports and TV episodes with baited breath and with this level of feigned importance but as soon as the game is over or the final credits role we switch the channel and move on to the next.
I still wished Christoph considered having Slyvia be Truman's love interest instead of Meryl because he clearly loves her instead of the woman they did hook him up with. If Christoph did that during Truman's college, she'll never would have tried to tell him the truth about his world and get kicked off the series.
The trouble is Sylvia is _genuinely_ love Truman that she want him to be free, whereas Meryl was an actress with fabricated love for Truman just so she could control him
@@darkjedi7 But because really loves Slyvia instead of Meryl, couldn't Christoph have recast Sylvia's character with an actress who looks like her and just make her Truman's love interest? That would have stop Truman from wanting to go to Fiji because he mainly want to go there because he thinks his true love is there and Christoph and his crew haven't done a good job at stopping his desire to go to Fiji.
I don’t really think the creator wanted Truman to stay. The artifice had been destroyed by then and the show wouldn’t have worked with Truman knowing. He just wanted to produce and direct the ending the way he thought it should happen.
I really feel bad for her here, like Truman shes sincere at heart but she ended up having to watch the love of her life marry another woman on live television until he broke free.
Harry Shearer. Ned Flanders. Otto. Skinner. Mr. Burns, Kent Brockman, Lenny and many many many others. As well as being the bassist from "This Is Spinal Tap"
There is so much potential for a sequel in the same universe. But at the same time, there is so much and it's so complicated with so many cause-effects to consider, it might not live up to the expectations.
We were watching the Truman Show. The show ended as Truman walked out, so we don't know what happened to him just like the rest of the audience in the movie.
Free truman rally poster on the wall.. Never knew there was a free truman movement.. Real life you'd expect it unless truman had been made to look really bad.. If they can film his life they could alter his life..
I will never understand anyone who laughs at the end of this film. When I saw this on its original release, in a theatre packed with people, they laughed when his boat crashed and he touched the wall for the first time. I have always found that bit absolutely heartbreaking because that’s the moment he realises. For some reason I’ve never found anything amusing about that part of the film.
Im sure most of you know but for those who don’t, the reporter at the beginning of the video is Harry Shearer, the voice of Mr. Burns, Kent Brockman, Smithers, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders and more.
"funny" that no matter how many times i've watched this movie, I just now realized the news anchor/reporter is the voice actor of so many the simpsons character including the news reporter in the simpsons itself.
This is a lesson for all of us now in 2021.We prefer our cell, our sad and miserable safe life , as working puppets .we live with rules that we didn't make.crises here and crises there and problems everywhere, in order to accept the "solutions"
As Truman is talking to the creator of his world, Sylvia talks to the creator of hers for Truman to escape. She accepts her creator while prompting Truman to reject his.
All our lives are a mockery ..... we don’t know where we live , we don’t know where we have come from, we don’t know why we are here and we don’t know what is really beyond the rather limited confines of this place we call earth. Mainstream science is mostly theory and conjecture. Contrary to what we have been spoon fed all our lives, we do not live on a supersonic spinning ball flying through endless space. We clearly live on a flat motionless plane with the Antarctic ice shelf wrapping around our continents and oceans. What’s beyond that .? Who knows ? Maybe NASA know but they certainly will never tell unless forced to. You think I’m mad ? Actually you are the deluded ones because you belief the lies you have been told for centuries. Have you never wondered why you can’t feel the spin of the Earth even though at the equator you would be moving at over 1,000 mph , supersonic in fact it is ridiculous really !!! Do you never wonder how water could perfectly wrap itself around this supersonic spinning rock , or how with the use of modern Digital zoom cameras like the Nikon P900or P1200 we can see mountain ranges that should be well below the so called curve of the earth, or how our atmosphere of air molecules can sit happily over us even though there is no barrier to the absolute vacuum of space ?? It’s easier to deceive people than to convince them they have been deceived. And you my friends have been so so utterly deceived......... time now to wake up !!!! Wishing you all a happy truthful New Year.
@AlienMagi Thanks, but coming from someone who thinks we all live on a supersonic spinning ball hurtling through infinite space, an idiot is a big step up from you....lol
It's a great moment at the end where Truman just parrots back what he'd been trained to say every day. The Director wanted a real human moment, and Truman gave him the artificial stuff he'd been shoveling the whole time.
that so smart i never thought of it that way
Because he was only True Man
That's not it.
I have relatives who are schizophrenics, [they] have never seen this movie, but they say mocking the voices helps a lot. Getting back at the people listening.
Then why didn't he just made Slyvia's Truman's love interest on the show so she wouldn't get kicked off and rebel against The Truman Show. It's perfectly clear that Truman really loves her and never really loved that woman they did hook him up with in the first place.
"he could leave at any time" yet you literally just had him arrested for trying to leave with Meryl.
@ClippyHe was happy before she fucked it all up
@@rmtjp3875 don't be a dork
@@seriousbusiness47 wym that's why he let her dad kidnap her at the beach
He also literally tries to drown him saying that if he was born in front of a live-audience he can die in front of one
@@rmtjp3875 That's like people born into slavery are content to be slaves
Can you imagine the level of royalties and back pay this studio owes Truman?
240,000 and an uber
alot of Money
Rocco Bayne not even Uber xl
@@dylan-kt7kd Lol yeah. Plus he has to split the 240,000 with the attorney
Rocco Bayne the Uber coupon also expires next week
"You never had a camera in my head" - such pain he delivered that line with. He knows that this man is a freak and has ruined his whole life so far.
It's a good line, but actually one of the few in the whole movie that I felt was delivered poorly. It seemed too quick a response to be natural to me. Someone who didn't have that line ready to go from the script would have paused to think about what was said and come up with a response.
@@_Stormfather ye
@@_Stormfather nah, sometimes I have thoughts like this and a good line emerges. It's then held in reserve for when relevant and then comes off as witty and fast thinking when actually it was preconceived
@@_Stormfather But Truman always in the later stages had his doubts!! Christoff just confirmed it there!
Need to blame a ruined life on someone
"Truman prefers his cell". If thats not the words of a psychopath, i dont know what is.
Ma dude literally imprisoned a child. If that's not psychopathic then I don't know what is..
@@dionysus3774 you say psychopathic like its a bad thing
@@mattjones6578 Shit guys... We have an edgelord here! All hail *EDGELORD Jones!*
The actual, literal definition of "Islam" is:
SUBMISSION.
The fact is we are all imprisoned since birth and the prisonward is yourself. Exactly like in the movie we think we are free, but are we?( The lie we live: th-cam.com/video/dNVZ0ZPfE8s/w-d-xo.html )
I love that there's an actual movement in the film; "Say no to Truman". Showing that she isn't the only one, she's only part of the minority.
I mean the man in the parachute in that one scene was probs one of them
She probably created the movement.
There's always been a minority willing to criticize and protest against the corporate fascist United States. Even today, real critical thinking Americans know that their country started the 2014 Ukraine crisis. Not 2022 Russia.
Always thought that this movement wasn't a minority, but the hosts of show were convincing everyone that they are, so that people will think that they're powerless
@@ekaterinaobraztsova4631 Honestly, this is a realistic take. especially based on the level of media manipulation we have today. it's also more optimistic for faith in humanity, suggesting that a larger portion of people think that the show is immoral.
*”In case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night”* such a brilliant way to end something
It’s kind of funny how he called the time where he lost his first tooth an episode, he doesn’t actually know Truman, he hasn’t seen him in real life. He just watches him like everybody else
Maybe he made a cameo apereance
I remember watching this when it came out and I was thinking 'Who would want to have someone follow them around with a camera all day long?' And now we have family youtubers who basically do the same to their kids...
Yes I feel for the kids!!!
Thats true
Earth is flat just like in this movie. Why lie about that?
Terrible comparison
@@bobkys7916 not really those people are sick in the head and their children will hate them
I like how Truman doesn't give Christoff what he wants. It robs Christoff of that rare direct conversation he's never had with Truman. He saw himself as the father figure who was entitled to Truman's private thoughts, only to be given a bland TV catchphrase that he ultimately deserved.
Its because he unwind everything the usual.as the show goes on he knew if he twisted the world backwards he will get information that made him realize that it was all controlled
"But in my world, you will have nothing to fear." Bold thing to say to somebody five minutes after you just tried to murder them.
Exactly. “He wants to stay.” Literally traumatizing him as a child by killing his dad off by drowning, so that he becomes too scared to cross a bridge.
Funny how Christoph seriously believes that having Truman permanently imprisoned, kept ignorant of the truth and thoroughly robbed of his ability to stride on his own behalf is not only something he'd find preferable, but the very act of doing something like that to him is supposed to come off as some sort of fatherly love on his side.
Lying and manipulating someone, both mentally and physically, is not love, but possessiveness.
A cage is still a cage, no matter how far you stretch the bars and walls.
Maybe the whole movie was an abusive relationship metaphor. Keeping someone isolated from the rest of the world and convincing them and yourself that it's an expression of love.
Earth is a cage
@Busy Bodies! Not really. Truman is literally trapped inside a gilded cage where everyone is lying to him and actively preventing him from reaching his freedom. He's a prisoner and the people around him are his jailors.
By contrast, most people genuinely love their pets and in case of dogs and cats, their owners usually give them free reign in and outside the house. They can actually leave any time they want -- and in most cases they do, but they always come back because it's their home, not their prison, and their owners are family in their eyes, not their jailors. If an owner trusts their pet enough to give them the freedom to leave, and the pet either stays or chooses to come back, that's usually a sign that their pets don't want to leave their family or their home.
The only exception would be pets that are abused but physically prevented from leaving or have been so thoroughly broken by the abuse that they no longer even care about freedom. That's what Truman was -- an abused pet prevented from leaving but was far too strong to let himself be restrained, broken or domesticated.
@Busy Bodies! He kept coming back? How? He never left. He lived all his life inside a cage until the very end where he finally chose his freedom over his cage. When he realised that his entire life was a lie, that all his friends and family were liars and never actually cared about him, he took control of his own life and decided to leave, especially after learning the truth from Christof who actually tried to persuade Truman to remain being his prisoner.
That's what Truman was -- a prisoner. Pets like dogs or cats aren't being manipulated into thinking they are free; most of the time they are fully capable of leaving but they choose not to because they understand that they have a home and people that care for them. Or let me just put it like this:
The difference between a pet and a prisoner is that pets have a home to return to whereas an escaped prisoner would never willingly go back to prison.
@Busy Bodies! What lie? What are you even talking about? Their owners genuinely love and care for them. They aren't being held prisoners -- they're being given food, warmth, love and shelter. Their owners give them everything they'd ever need and they take nothing away from them.
An owner's love towards their pet is genuine. Truman wasn't even Christof's pet; he was Christof's prisoner, nothing more. Like I said in my original post, Christof's treatment of Truman wasn't done out of love but pure possessiveness. Had Christof truly loved Truman, he would have never turned Truman's life into a mockery and he wouldn't have tried to stop Truman from leaving once he began acting out. Everything Christof ever did for Truman, he did for himself.
He walks through the corridor and wanders onto another set thinking he made it out..... truman 2
Oh fuck like different levels.
And at the very end of all the levels he finds a bunch of corpses and skeletons of different people who have tried to leave the show
sounds like a cool video game in the making lol
inception
Great idea for a sequel or reboot :)
He talks like a obsessive fan, he truly believes what he’s saying is nice
“I’m determined that television’s first on air conception will still take place.” What a psychopath lol
Im the creator... of a television show.
I love that pause. Very poetic.
Yes, and shortly before that, at 2:40 : "You can speak... I can hear you..." with a light blue, white-cloud sky for a moment.
The costuming in this scene is really interesting. Sylvia is dressed in horizontal-striped pyjamas, almost like a prison uniform, representing the prison that she views Truman to be trapped in. Behind her we can see Truman depicted behind bars in the activist posters.
Christof's clothing is an all black outfit with a splash of white at his throat. Reminiscent of a vicar or a priest. A religious leader.
And then we have Truman himself. Dressed in colours that tonally match Sylvia's. But his are plainer. More like a patient in a mental hospital than a prisoner.
If Truman were to believe what Christof and the actors on the show tell him, he'd then have to acknowledge himself as insane.
If Truman were to believe what Sylvia tells him, he'd have to acknowledge himself as a prisoner.
The nuances in this movie are fascinating
everybody who loved the show was happy for him leaving, despite the fact that the TV show dictated their life. After he left, it was just a matter of switching the channel
The one thing that I hate most, is when Truman asks: So none of this was real? And Christoff says: No. But, you were
A lie. It was a version of Truman shaped by the surroundings made by Christoff. The real Truman lies beyond that door.
Haha that’s assuming the world we live in is a “real” one with freedom of choice 🤣
We have choice. Did you just take a philosophy class or something?
@@seananderson5334 we have? Or we think we do? Haha
Arguably we are all shapes by our surroundings, even if we have free choice. So Christoff wasn't lying if we believe that the true version of ourselves is just the version that believes we are making our free choices. Then Truman is more real or fake in or out of the show. It's his surroundings that are a lie until he leaves
Missing the point. Truman was very real. It's literally in his name.
That last scene always makes me smile, Truman saying his usual line but this time with it being for the last time.
This time he chooses to say it as a mockery of his creator right back at his face !
I do respect how he keeps her on to say her opinion on it instead of just moving on to another caller
He had to,it's in the script...it's a fucking movie,grow the fuck up
Ciaran do you have problems with your family or friends?
@@GDI-disc-accepted they know, they where talking about the character that they where playing as dummy.
@@GDI-disc-accepted You know by your logic writers for films or TV shows shouldn't put any thought at all into ANYTHING they write. All that commenter did was just said how they liked how the scene was constructed.
@@GDI-disc-accepted have you had a bad day today, Ciaran?
That’s dope Truman is getting a chick right out of the show
lol at least he's getting those celebrity benefits
She's a lot more attractive and less annoying than his "wife" too. Lucky man
@@perrybb2 They're both attractive.
@@perrybb2 the wife was pretty good looking. 😂 I think he was smashing too.
@dea th I think a viewer in the show mentions that they turn the camera away,sound im not so sure of though :D
As someone whose best friend is a lawyer, I would be getting in touch with Truman as soon as possible. Then, over a few beers and some therapy, we would file the most colossal lawsuit this planet has ever seen ha!
The laws in this world are clearly different from our own. In real life, such a show would never be allowed to happen in the first place. Because the laws are different, and because it was allowed to happen, I don't know how much success you'd be having with that lawsuit
@@_Stormfather perhaps you're unaware that the freemasons and illuminati, who are affiliated with Hollywood, are doing to us what's being done in the Truman Show, so if you really think humanity (or rather the lizard people) isn't capable of a charade of this calibre...Well, just wait till the Messiah comes and see the magic for yourself.
@@aviad4878 Wow, there's so much insanity in that comment that I don't know where to start. I'll just recommend that you see a psychologist and get some help.
@@_Stormfather Recommendation denied and you're welcome to start from the beginning. What's insane in what I wrote?
you think the courts would be totally unaware this is happening? obviously they don't see any problem here
Natascha McElhone was so gorgeous in this.
She still is
^ agreed
I always loved her eyes. A very soft, sad, yet powerfully seductive look about them.
What nikolaiownz said.
shes sexy in Californication
He can leave when he wants? He tried to leave but the hazmat guys threw a net on him!
Boy did I love Christoph's performance. He in his different monologues gave me so many different perspectives on my own belief. He is scary at times but also heartwarming and soothing. What an actor and what a character.
Apparently Dennis Hopper was originally going to play Christoff, and as much as I love Dennis Hopper, nobody could've played it as well as Ed Harris did.
No one's talking about him saying "on air conception"?
The ratings would be through the roof
No one's talking about the Hague joke in the first few seconds either.
@@sergey_is_sergey I don't get if the implication is the network cut them off but did so weirdly late or what.
I just noticed that the striped pajamas Sylvia is wearing while she argues with Christoff about Truman's situation resemble an old-fashioned prison uniform. Very subtle metaphor for the "prison" she is trying to save him from. (Or possibly a suggestion that she herself is trapped, as Christoff suggests, even though she lives in the real world.) Great touch.
Not sure why the director tries to talk him out of leaving anyway, the show would be finished as soon as he finds its fake.
@Al-Hadi it IS.
Because he loves playing as God and can’t face seeing Truman leave.
Great point🙌🏽
Cause he knew how many people loose theire job after he leave ;-)
@Naxiro he doesn't think to trick him, because he doesn't think it's a lie. As far as he's concerned, it's no more fake than the real world. It just happens to be televised. He thinks that if he can convince Truman to see it his way, Truman will go on living his life as he always has. He would know he's being filmed, but would take it in stride and live his life out happily anyway.
Of course, he's a psychopath and there's no way Truman would see it his way. But that's what he thinks
Jim Carrey is such a wonderful actor.
The concept as old as it is, still heartbreaking
I love the "I am the creator" guy **playing** at being God (and seeking to keep Truman trapped) while his former girlfriend is, literally, praying to the REAL God to help him achieve his freedom.
That was a nice touch.
Well, there is no real god. There is nothing to pray to.
Otherwise I agree.
@@PartialViewmusic you forgot to say "I think" at the beginning of that
@@daywalker3068 We, humanity have seen 0 evidence that a god exist.
Therefore, scientifically, there is no god.
Empirical evidence shows us as much.
@@PartialViewmusic We, humanity, are absolutely clueless when it comes to the overall scheme of things. Perhaps it gives you peace of mind to accept in your heart that something doesn't exist, but that puts you in the same train of thought as one that is religious. The average modern day scientist is crippled because they refuse to think big and expand their horizons.
It’s like walking away from a cult that you are born into... and the voices that they plant in your head.
I feel this.understand your true energy.the energy that keeps us at 1 theres alot of energy that makes u jump from 1 to 4 to 7 and on.we are always supposed to maintain @ 1.
Am I an idiot for not realizing until now that the music in this scene is actually diegetic? In an earlier scene we are shown the guy in the studio at the synthesizer. The music isn't for our benefit, the people in the movie can hear it. It's meant to manipulate the people watching the show and Truman himself into siding with Christof!
Wait what? So Truman could hear this music and I guess that was normal to him since this has been happening since he was born
@@rizwanwali4223 Haven't thought of that. It would be so weird for Truman to go to a world without convenient background music.
Sylvia went British during part of this scene
Well, Natascha McElhone is british actually
When we think about it, in this movie Sylvia is probably a former British actress in real life. Thus why her character in the show and her real self talk differently.
@@amparonarbona5142 I guess she went out of character then...no awards for you Nat
Came here looking for this comment.
@@bradmodd7856 Not really, her character in the movie IS British as well. You can first hear her accent during the beach scene with Truman, when she tells him the truth and gets taken away.
I hope that she and Truman had their happily ever after, after the film ended.
The man is on the moon. The prison stripes. "I am the creator". So much symbolism.
The man being on the moon is a powerful metaphor for him being a lunatic.
@@marcocoelho4258 never thought of that. Great point!
nah it's a metaphor the moon landing was fake
The moon means suffocating" the whole thing just means even God is trapped in a program.God is everything he is everywhere all things if he wants he can play any character he can be an architect in any world he creates.its so much.i love to dig deeper in my own observation but i mean its nothing but Gold(understanding)
@@marcocoelho4258 remember when the projectile struck the moon and it rang like a bell? It's hollow so very well could be Central Ops for earth's daily operations.
The show would never be the same with him aware, anyway.
Yup.
Maybe they could have turned his awareness into another opportunity. Like a show about him travelling around the world.
It always bothered me how meticulous they were with keeping Truman trapped and not have him find out the truth. This woman was a cast member that had feelings for Truman and because of the risk that she may blow their cover they take her off the set.
Truman Show is a great movie. There are a lot of movies I would like to buy that are on DVD and this is one of them. I hope some of these companies remake these DVD's and they sell them so I can own them.
I'm giving you a thumbs up for your heart-warming devotion to a dying media format.
He should get a thumbs up, this way he can own his own copy ! Right now . the medium of movies are starting to be controlled by Netflix. What happens when these multimedia companies decide to stop showing a movie forever. They want to control what u and I watch. With a DVD , or better yet a VHS tape that u can hold in your hand!
@@daveyboy_ *laughs in torrent*
backcue - This is on DVD and I own two copies. Hope you own yours by now.
Just get the blu ray
Natascha McElhone is stunning in this film and Ed Harris is a superb villain.
A lot of people where he went, the thought of it is endless. Imagine people either swarm because of his status. His life could have went in so many places, that's why it was put there. No matter what ending, people would get angry. This one leaves people guessing.
I still would have wanted to see some ending scenes with Sylvia.
the ending can never be happy, even if truman leaves the show he will spend the rest of his life in fear that nothing is real. its nearly impossible for us to comprehend what that would do to a human, give me chills
We don't get to see what happens after he leaves because his whole goal was to be away from the cameras and get back the privacy he deserved. In the same way no one had the right to watch his life, we have no right to see what happens after
@samfletcher8338 he must be *severly* traumatized, I agree, but it still has a place for a bittersweet ending. Like, seeking therapy, getting away from that terrible society and finally leading a quiet life
What if all this was a special, "Truman escapes" part of the show and he is still living in that world even tho he thinks he escaped.
Exactly, Truman might never trust people again bc what if he is still being watched or the person who he bumped into down the street was actually an actor.
Am I the only one who catches the fact that her pajamas are striped?
Sort of a metaphor for how she feels “the prisoner” Truman is.
Great subtle detail.
Danny Roqs pyjamas are generally striped. It was the classic design no?
Ricky H they can be but I feel there was a purpose as to her timing of having those particular pjs.
Feels like noticing "subtle details" in this film is a meme.
This film is packed with subtle details like that
Chill dude, they are pajamas.
Fun fact: the host of the call-in program is none other than Harry Shearer, voice of Smithers, Mr Burns, Ned Flanders, and countless other Simpsons characters.
Thank you. I was trying to place the voice. I knew it was from the simpsons, just couldn't place the character.
The music at the end is so beautiful really helps with the ending
I wish my 2 adult kids would walk out the door into the real world.
Its you're house kick there asses out
Lmao
You can create the real word in your house , by letting reap the consequences of their actions or inactions , if they don’t cook , let them go hungry , if the don’t wash clothe , let them be dirty , if they don’t pay rent ,CHUCK THEM OUT , you are enabling them to act as children
LMAO
@@christinebeames2311 or he/she created the circumstances where they are afraid to fail/ terrified of the outside world. it happens.
Amazing how the parents could have just sold him to a TV show - he says he watched him be born.
"I am the creator...."
You cant leave, boy. You belong here with me, in your cage. Just be a good little complacent slave and craw back into your pen.
It is the ultimate conceit and pride, to seek to place yourself upon the throne of God.
@@darthimperious1594 Yep yep. The look of shock on Christof's (Christ-Off or fake Christ) face when he for the very first time realizes that True Man has free will after all, is SO satisfying.
Tom Lee - heh - there was laughter in the theater when we saw this. Just enough of a pause there to condescend to the audience: "see? see what this guy thinks he is?"
GOD???
4:32. Nice. I loved that he left.
First movie I'd seen Ed Harris play a character that made me hate his guts, that man was sick!
He's a really good actor.
Harry Shearer on point. You simply cannot ignore those tones.
Did dude have a tablet in 1998?
Microsoft created a tablet in 1993
It was just a screen, nothing else.
There were tablets and social media in hg wells movie "things to come" from 1936. Yes 1936.
@@ronaldchieron3416 Wow that' is cool. Thanks for that. But I was wondering in that moment if tablet devices go back to 1998, I was still using a desk top but laptops were the new thing back then and I don;t recall the small tablets. But you did touch a topic that does interest me. If I recall correctly Clarke had a fax machine in Childhood's End wriiten in 1953. And too many from Gene Roddenberry to get into.
This feels exactly like the time in a mans life when he wants to break free from his parents clutch. The perfect world they laid out for him. The plans they have for him. The emotional blackmail they use to prevent him from leaving the world they made for him and the life they want him to lead. Trumans last words in this scene will surely be what ill say to my father as i leave. “In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night... :D”
I can see where you are coming from but the meaning is much greater than that..
haakem I have two kids, when the time comes, I’ll kick them out of my house :D
Oof, not about parents. It’s about the clutches of society. Don’t leave your parents kids, they only wanted the best for you and you must support them in your old age.
@@ionthegreat13 I could take issue with a number of things you said there, but I'm most concerned about you claiming that you "must" support them in their old age. Says who? Show me the law or other objective evidence that determines what I am required to do with my life
@@_Stormfather more of a moral 'must'. Essentially if you're parents loved and nurtured you it's ungrateful to leave them to rot in their old age.
Simply brilliant scene !
Its like in Matrix! First perfect Matrix was also rejected by human brains! Just like Truman did reject his perfect world!
It was not perfect just an illusion. His wife didn't loved him and was really unhappily married, his "best friend" also didn't care for him and just repeated lines from a script. He was never allowed to make his happiness, but instead he was forced to live the idea of someone else perfect life.
@@ramonserna8089 worst than matrix, if you think about it, and the matrix was made by machines, there, the evil come from humans.
Actually, the Truman Show looks a lot like the first Matrix that appeared to be "perfect" in the eyes of the Archiquect (inside this movie, in the eyes of creator)
Difference to Matrix is, that every person in Truman show was an actor, while almost the entire humanity in Matrix was real people not knowing what happens. They all was "Trumans". And they couldn't leave on their own without help, as there was no way.
When you sign on for the Truman show your signing on for life
gah those eyes, get lost in them. lovely
There is no way in real life that this would ever be even remotely legal.
..,
Yes. Consider the fake marriage. All those TS-fan-nerds do not think ANYTHING to the end.
Would love to see the CONTRACT, the actress playing / living his "wife" would have to sign. "Mrs X has to be sexually available for Mr Truman Burbank at least twice a week." And so on. I love Peter Weir but this movie is just plain stupid.
Yeah well, dis ain't real life is it smart guy?
I loved this movie.
The world celebrated when Truman left, even if that meant the show was over, they were happy for him
They cared about the man, not the show
They clearly didn’t. Did you not see the TV guide scene? They treated him as nothing but entertainment, not as a genuine real human being.
@@tongraymondtong6693 right when he left everyone watching cheered congratulated him
@@wickedshadesproductions5254 yea but then they quickly moved on, meaning they really didn’t care about Truman
@@wickedshadesproductions5254 they switched the channel as soon as it went off the air. That was the point. We watch the sports and TV episodes with baited breath and with this level of feigned importance but as soon as the game is over or the final credits role we switch the channel and move on to the next.
Incase I don't see you: Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Goodnight.
Simulations within simulations within simulations. That is what we are, players on a stage.
Exactly! My role is ok. Realize 90% of people are background characters. NPCs. Yep. Enjoy the show and ride.
@@captainkirk7676 Whats your role ?
@@captainkirk7676 how do u enjoy?
I want to see part 2 of how Truman lived outside of cage.
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Y'all can't be biting my style with the Truman show
You had to leave out the bow.
I still wished Christoph considered having Slyvia be Truman's love interest instead of Meryl because he clearly loves her instead of the woman they did hook him up with. If Christoph did that during Truman's college, she'll never would have tried to tell him the truth about his world and get kicked off the series.
The trouble is Sylvia is _genuinely_ love Truman that she want him to be free, whereas Meryl was an actress with fabricated love for Truman just so she could control him
@@darkjedi7 But because really loves Slyvia instead of Meryl, couldn't Christoph have recast Sylvia's character with an actress who looks like her and just make her Truman's love interest? That would have stop Truman from wanting to go to Fiji because he mainly want to go there because he thinks his true love is there and Christoph and his crew haven't done a good job at stopping his desire to go to Fiji.
*A legendary horror movie*
This part really foreshadows what happens at the end.. Truman was determined to discover the truth, and left.
I don’t really think the creator wanted Truman to stay. The artifice had been destroyed by then and the show wouldn’t have worked with Truman knowing. He just wanted to produce and direct the ending the way he thought it should happen.
That dome (Truman show set) would have to be a structure 1,000 times bigger than anything ever built on earth.
I think it was the size of a state
THAT SCORE
That’s..........THATS ME!!!
Esta pelicula enseña lo que es el libre albedrío.(This movie teaches what free will is.)
The Duke of Sussex brought me here.
Prince Harry?! Why?
"Vocal Minority".
2019, it takes one person.
This movie is a masterpiece
I really feel bad for her here, like Truman shes sincere at heart but she ended up having to watch the love of her life marry another woman on live television until he broke free.
Is the news reader the same guy that does the voice of Kent brockman in the simpsons ? 😂
Trojan Burgess He does Smithers and Mr. Burns too! Among many other characters.
Harry Shearer. Ned Flanders. Otto. Skinner. Mr. Burns, Kent Brockman, Lenny and many many many others.
As well as being the bassist from "This Is Spinal Tap"
I admit I didn't recognize him much from the resolution but that voice broke through like crazy.
AND Skinner!
Was there ever any interview or anything that gave a synposis on what occured after the movie ended?
That's a great idea. But the open ending is appropriate. What would *we* have done after that, if we were Truman? :)
ye
There is so much potential for a sequel in the same universe. But at the same time, there is so much and it's so complicated with so many cause-effects to consider, it might not live up to the expectations.
We were watching the Truman Show. The show ended as Truman walked out, so we don't know what happened to him just like the rest of the audience in the movie.
I’d love to see his trauma explored. No happy ever afterr
Free truman rally poster on the wall.. Never knew there was a free truman movement.. Real life you'd expect it unless truman had been made to look really bad.. If they can film his life they could alter his life..
no way the show could continue with Truman knowing the truth, it will turn into something else. big brother kind of thing.
I will never understand anyone who laughs at the end of this film. When I saw this on its original release, in a theatre packed with people, they laughed when his boat crashed and he touched the wall for the first time. I have always found that bit absolutely heartbreaking because that’s the moment he realises. For some reason I’ve never found anything amusing about that part of the film.
We are all Truman now. All of us. We all live a false life on social media.
Im sure most of you know but for those who don’t, the reporter at the beginning of the video is Harry Shearer, the voice of Mr. Burns, Kent Brockman, Smithers, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders and more.
I wondered why I was thinking Simpsons when he was talking. Makes sense now!
Thats kent Brockman from the simpsons
"funny" that no matter how many times i've watched this movie, I just now realized the news anchor/reporter is the voice actor of so many the simpsons character including the news reporter in the simpsons itself.
The Matrix before the matrix
Today we call this NSA.
This is a lesson for all of us now in 2021.We prefer our cell, our sad and miserable safe life , as working puppets .we live with rules that we didn't make.crises here and crises there and problems everywhere, in order to accept the "solutions"
If you did this to someone today you'd be saving them from living in a place that has turned to such hate and garbage
As Truman is talking to the creator of his world, Sylvia talks to the creator of hers for Truman to escape. She accepts her creator while prompting Truman to reject his.
Free Truman ! True Freeman ! The truth shall set you free. A true and free man. Truly free. Freely true. Free the truth !
We all live in the Truman Show........ we just don’t know it !!!
Have you researched gangstalking??
wtf?
All our lives are a mockery ..... we don’t know where we live , we don’t know where we have come from, we don’t know why we are here and we don’t know what is really beyond the rather limited confines of this place we call earth. Mainstream science is mostly theory and conjecture. Contrary to what we have been spoon fed all our lives, we do not live on a supersonic spinning ball flying through endless space. We clearly live on a flat motionless plane with the Antarctic ice shelf wrapping around our continents and oceans. What’s beyond that .? Who knows ? Maybe NASA know but they certainly will never tell unless forced to. You think I’m mad ? Actually you are the deluded ones because you belief the lies you have been told for centuries. Have you never wondered why you can’t feel the spin of the Earth even though at the equator you would be moving at over 1,000 mph , supersonic in fact it is ridiculous really !!! Do you never wonder how water could perfectly wrap itself around this supersonic spinning rock , or how with the use of modern Digital zoom cameras like the Nikon P900or P1200 we can see mountain ranges that should be well below the so called curve of the earth, or how our atmosphere of air molecules can sit happily over us even though there is no barrier to the absolute vacuum of space ?? It’s easier to deceive people than to convince them they have been deceived. And you my friends have been so so utterly deceived......... time now to wake up !!!! Wishing you all a happy truthful New Year.
@AlienMagi Thanks, but coming from someone who thinks we all live on a supersonic spinning ball hurtling through infinite space, an idiot is a big step up from you....lol
@@epsomvince5950 Yes it's true. You are an idiot
basically the sequel to Naruto if Madara succeded
“and he’ll prove you RAWONG”
😜
I always think how can Truman not know he is television?
Wonder how many times he got caught knocking one out.
The very first time Bruce talked to God.