Hey guys if you enjoyed this video you might want to check out this video essay discussing why I do not love the MCU portrayal of Spider-Man. th-cam.com/video/4-sGie7TC9c/w-d-xo.html
If you like Truman Show watch Dark City (if you haven't). There are some nice parallels to it and The Truman Show. It's visually darker and but still if you never seen it, give it a watch.
actually Truman show is reality movie, world we live in is actual Truman show, with those behind closed doors controlling it, but its about to end, Truman show will collapse, and people about to see so many shocking and incredible things. Hollywood is actually fully controlled too th-cam.com/video/M3rAzIAw5KE/w-d-xo.html
A long time ago there is a TV show whose starting line goes like this. We control the horizontal line, the vertical and the sound and sights you see and hear. Your perception of Reality is now under our control. Relax and enjoy the ride. For the next duration of time we take control of your perception of reality.
When you said that he left the show and that he is no longer our business, I was relieved. God, I was so interested in if he was gonna find Sylvia, because she is the only true thing he found all along, and I was feeling sorry that the movie didnt show if they even met in the end. Now I get the message, why he left, and why it ended like that in the first place. True masterpiece and I fully enjoyed your breakdown of it. This is a great movie :)
Thanks! The movie is very meta. Characters who are actors for the show often look to the camera and speak directly to us. The movie frames society as treating the real lives of celebrities and ordinary people as entertainment. A real life example would be the media’s obsession with Brintney Spears.
This was definitely an interesting experience for me having never watched the Truman Show! I cant say that this spoiled any of the movie even after hearing its ending, I wasn't left biased from the information, or thrown off, everything was crystal clear; Balanced, as all things should be. You deserve so many more subs with this kind of content ability. lol.
@@eltejano4721 The movie url that had been free, was removed, and the pay-url movie is still available on YT. Like "Dances with Wolves" and other movies, they let the free url be available for several months, then they remove it; they've done this for years. I would guess that pretty soon now, it will be available to watch for free again.
One of the Carey movies I never got around to watching until recently. I'm not sure about anyone else but I got a different vibe from the movie. What I got from it was that it was more of a reflection on society than it was about Truman himself. It seemed to me like it was questioning how far society is willing to go for the sake of entertainment in what was then the relative new world of reality TV. This idea was most likely inspired by shows such as Jerry Springer where peoples misery suddenly became other peoples entertainment.
I worked on it! The entire crew was great and it was a Love Fest! The only flies in the ointment were the Location Manager and, of course, Jim. Peter, The Director, was a fine example of what a human should be. It is still the best script I have ever read, and I’ve been doing this for 3.5 decades.
@@1515327E The Location Manager was an A-hole and Jim was kind of a Dick because of the pressure of this being his crossover film from Jokester to Actor
The film treats the audience of the show and the real audience of the movie as one and the same. YOU are the one invading his privacy each day. And when Truman leaves the show, he’s leaving your view because he’s choosing to no longer be an object of your entertainment.
If everyone else is an actor except Truman, and their job is to do the same things every day, then aren't they somewhat trapped just like he is? Can they leave the set/studio? Do they get to take breaks? Or have they all been acting for 30 years non-stop, in the same location?
I was paying extra attention the last time I watched the movie; I picked up on other characters mentioning past extended hospital stays and work trips. I'm assuming those scenarios were fabricated as cover for the actor taking a vacation. You are right though about them being trapped in that world with Truman for the most part; but the vitally important difference is that it's their job and they have a choice, Truman never did and he deserves a chance at a real life.
Now i'm thinking that if one of the actors wanted to quit the show, the producers would create a story that the actor was killed in a car accident and badly mangled, with a closed casket funeral. Or a similar story.
@@daniellanglois89 Yep, or moved away permanently, something like that. I mean, they made Truman think his dad drowned just so that he would be afraid of water and not try to leave the island. I'd say it's messed up, but that's a massive understatement.
I remember being introduced to jim carrey from my uncle chris by watching this movie. The music, the premise, the nostalgia, all took me since i was young watching this. But besides that, the one part where hes looking at family photos and him staring at her crossed fingers never made sense to me until recently. Its pure magic that it still entertains me to this day. And the nostalgia of watching this move just makes me cry🥺
It’s implied that Truman’s love interest Lauren was a part of some bigger movement that opposed Truman’s exploitation. But yeah, the ending of the movie seems to be saying that the audience’s connection to Truman was never real. They may have watched him grow up every day, they might have cheered for his success when he finally left the show, but once it ends they immediately find another channel to watch. They never cared for him as a person, they just enjoyed the entertainment he gave them.
It's called Gnosticism. Because it's from Holywood. The Lego Movie is the same theme. Holywood is sold out to the devil and have satanic agendas and to pervert the message of Christ. That's the truth of the Truman show in our real world. Our world is controlled by those people, what you see on TV and cinema, what you hear on radio, world events that occur is carefully controlled by those satanic groups, parts of secret societies plotting in the darkness to keep you as far away as possible from the salvation of the Gospel.
This just kinda appeared on my recommended and I am so glad it did. Now all I want to do is sit down and go insane over another beautifully crafted movie starring the Grinch and that one guy from Miracle (2004)
"Show must go on..." But really, the show has been going on for longer than The Truman Show or internet. By leaving the film set Truman is not necessarily entering the "real" world with Silvia, but he is just entering another show. And it's ok. The main thing for him would be to Recognize that "that too is a show", a play of the shadows on the cave wall, and be at peace with it, and maybe even find a way out of it.
I always imagined Christof having to face criminal penalties for trying to KILL some one on LIVE television. Hopefully in this world murder is still considered murder. And then there's the fact that Truman could of been entitled to a MASSIVE amount of royalties from all of the money the show made off him.
I like to think that at the end once Truman left and you get the shot of Christof leaning back in his chair he’s not just realizing the effort he’s dedicated the last few decades towards has gone to waste, but also the magnitude of the consequences that he may have to face.
This movie really made me more aware of my world and my proceptions of what I think are real. The eyes only pass images to our brains but our minds interpret the experience based on our experiences and the cultural environment we are surrounded by. And the eyes only gather light which is sent to the brain. Its like we exist in some sort of bubble.
Jesus is the light of the world. I know it sounds like a religious sales pitch but truly you cannot see clearly any other way. Many Christians who think they know Jesus are still in darkness. Even knowing what we know through Him we still “see dimly as through a glass.” It takes more dedication & time to see all that the light (Jesus) wants to show us.
@Smee Self You missed their point. They said it could be *real. There's a world of difference between something being real and the word "paranoia." Paranoia means being fearful of something happening that is NOT in Reality. If it's real, then the word "paranoia" is no longer applicable. Remember, paranoia is a fear of something happening that is NOT real. If it's real, then their fear is warranted, valid, grounded in Reality. Paranoia is never grounded in Reality.
Yo wtf y do u only have 400 subs lmao I thought u had at least 1.4 million haha bro keep up the grind fr fr I can’t wait to see what u produce In a year from now just remember me when ur famous I subbed since 400!!!
Wow not even five minutes ago I was thinking how I wanna watch a TH-cam video analyzing the Truman show then this shows up. Amazing coincidence..... Or is it?
This video was an essay I made for a film class. I would have liked to elaborate more on the content of the movie along with the parallel to Plato's cave, but the project constraints involved keeping the video under very short
Great work, it's a brilliant movie with fantastic acting by everyone especially Jim Carrey and not forgetting Peter Weir's great directing definitely worth checking out some of his other stuff master and commander, a way back and dead poets society are all well a watch even his older stuff like picnic at hanging rock, they're all even better on multiple viewings packed with subtle subtext without talking down or preaching at the audience. Anyway thanks for your thoughts and great work again
Thanks! My film professor was a really big fan of Peter Weir’s movies and recommended I watch more of them. I have seen dead poets society and that movie is great.
I think it was an intention of the film to suggest that we are all Truman. I think that's a great insight. I also like another aspect which is dramatised but intended to reflect us all is 'authenticity'. Similar to films like Chinatown in the 70s when authenticity was at risk in the face of seemingly unknowable and all-controlling political forces, now the threat has changed to the fakery of the virtual world we interact with and has resulted in the same crisis of authenticity. Loved the video
Wait...this is a stupid question I'm going to ask...if he was born on set did his parents know that he was on the show or were they clueless like him? Also why did they pick him to be on the show? I guess I'll just have to watch the movie myself to understand everything. Great video btw!
Not a dumb question! He was an orphan that was selected as a baby and “adopted” by the corporation that runs the Truman show. Whether he has living biological parents that are aware of his existence or not is unknown. The movie was free on TH-cam for some time, but I believe it is now up to rent.
Did you know that Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz grew up in the house shown in the movie as Truman’s home (31 Natchez St, Seaside, FL, 36 in the movie)? In fact his parents Don and Vicky Gaetz still own it. Matt has lots of other problems and I’ll bet he wishes he can escape into the movie version of the house. Verify on Wikipedia. 🥰
My only true issue with this movie was how the ending seemed a little rushed. You never see him meet the creators of the show in-person, him reunite with Sylvia, or see him leave the studio into the actual outside world, and when him and Meryl break up you don’t even see them break up. I think this movie could’ve benefited if it was at least 10-15 minutes longer. It just seemed like a lot was missing still. However, it was a great movie whatsoever. I really hope Jim Carey doesn’t actually retire yet.
Honestly I kind of agree. I remember when I first saw it I thought “that’s it?” It leaves you with an incomplete feeling. But I like the interpretation that the whole movie is about whether Truman would choose to stay in a world he knows is fake, and once he does the tension over that conflict is over so the movie doesn’t need to continue. Also since the movie is pretty meta, once Truman leaves the show he also leaves our view since we are the audience that has watched him his entire life.
It’s mentioned by some viewers that it always pans to the window or some shots of flowers while it happens. In the later half Christoff says he wants Truman’s child to be the very first person to be conceived live on air
The part most people aren't seeing is that the dome or flat earth is the public trust, and when the true man realized what was going on he found a way to leave the public and enter the private through the hidden door. This is there for all of us if we make that choice to enter life and being part of the 3D living world that our Creator made for us with dominion over our life, liberty and property.
I think this movie also predicted parasocial relationships. The in universe audience love and worship truman like how we love and worship celebrities and influencers they know everything about him while he knows nothing about the audience
Yes! The ending also solidifies how hollow and fake parasocial relationships are. Over the course of the show, Truman has unknowingly accumulated a massive worldwide audience that fanatically worships him. People cheer for him like they cheer for the Super Bowl, and own merch of him like he’s a hero. Yet the moment Truman leaves, his audience immediately loses interest in him. It’s no accident the last shot of the film is the two cops looking to watch something else once Truman left.
@@Chase4boy yeah the only one who cared about truman and treated him as a person was Lauran every one else saw him as either property, a TV star or entertainment
Random question, but since you mentioned Plato, are you a big fan of philosophy? Was wondering if it was just to reference for the themes of this movie or if you were a big fan in general.
There probably is, but I wouldn’t know where to find it. I think there is opportunity to tell an interesting story of Truman attempting to acclimate to normal society after living his entire life as a celebrity. But on the other hand, I think any attempt to continue the story might be self defeating. The point of the movie is that we the audience are invading his life without consent. At the end of the film, he makes the decision to not allow us to view him any longer.
The actors are acting like actors so if their acting like actors that means their actors but that means their pretending to be actors which would mean their not actually actors
People don't know, what they don't know, especially if they've been deceived. Belief-structures are powerful; one's thoughts don't even go to questioning beliefs they've had since infancy.
I wonder if they drugged or hypnotized him somehow. Christoff’s company has money, and could hire psychologists. “Ibuprofen” could be anything when it’s an actor giving it to you.
In the movie, Christof refers to Truman as “the first baby adopted by a corporation.” This suggests that there are laws or loopholes that exist in the movie’s universe that made it completely legal. That being said, if something like the Truman show happened in our world I could see it being treated the same as wrongful incarceration. He is basically in a prison after all.
I get that he starts "noticing something is weird", because no one refers to these events, but writ large, weird compared to what? He has nothing to base normality on. It would have been so simple to explain these events to him.
His life was designed to be as close to a normal person's as possible. So events like lights falling from the sky, the radio channel discussing his every move, accidents and people getting in his way preventing him from leaving his town, and many more of the other suspicious things would definitely feel out of the ordinary to him.
For some reason, I’ve been obsessed with the concept of this movie lately. IRL, Truman would have sued the $hit out of the corporation who adopted him. Controlling someone’s life in such an insidious way because you “own” them is tantamount to slavery and that’s definitely immoral and illegal.
I think it’s compelling because Truman isn’t inherently super extraordinary. He’s just an ordinary guy for the most part. It makes his life’s situation of being monitored and exploited for tv entertainment feel more plausible, because we all live lives just like truman. It makes me feel a little paranoid despite the likely impossibility.
This same argument is used for having children, that I can't have kids until I have the house the dog the picket fence. When it's all just shadows on a cave and inhibits the child from learning the true nature of life. To venture out and carve one's own path and not follow the shadows. We are coddled to it when we are young and conditioned we would never have the courage to do what Truman did and leave that safety net.
Its a great channel but everyone's getting carried away and some might be correct. I just feel on a video like this. Thats ironic that they all sorta got out of control w the 1 mill mark. Just be happy your here folks. Dont over compensate
@@Chase4boy *concerned. "Paranoia" is fear of something happening that is not actually happening, that is not Reality. In the last 30 years, it has become popular to throw that word around, to misapply it to valid fears that are real. There are two kinds of fear: real or imagined. Paranoia is fear of what is imagined, not real. If something is actually happening, the person's concern or fear is valid, warranted, grounded in reality, because it is actually happening to them.
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Hey guys if you enjoyed this video you might want to check out this video essay discussing why I do not love the MCU portrayal of Spider-Man. th-cam.com/video/4-sGie7TC9c/w-d-xo.html
If you like Truman Show watch Dark City (if you haven't). There are some nice parallels to it and The Truman Show. It's visually darker and but still if you never seen it, give it a watch.
I also like how Truman's name is 'true-man', since he's the only (intended) character in the show who isn't acting
holy shit..
Lmao, how did the people replying above me not already know this
Like, im pretty sure it was implicated
This sounds mad but we ARE living in a reality that is fiction
THIS ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
Have you ever known one?
kinda fucked up when u realize outside of trumans world is a bigger and more cryptic matrix lol.
actually Truman show is reality movie, world we live in is actual Truman show, with those behind closed doors controlling it, but its about to end, Truman show will collapse, and people about to see so many shocking and incredible things. Hollywood is actually fully controlled too th-cam.com/video/M3rAzIAw5KE/w-d-xo.html
@@evgeniam685 That's what the original commenter was getting at
A long time ago there is a TV show whose starting line goes like this. We control the horizontal line, the vertical and the sound and sights you see and hear. Your perception of Reality is now under our control. Relax and enjoy the ride. For the next duration of time we take control of your perception of reality.
HAHA!!
Truman Show 2 we see Truman emerging from his box.. then gets a call:
Morpheus: "Hello, Truman.."
Truman: "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
@@zanderman004 lmao
Jim Carrey is a great actor for many movies.
He is fantastic. His range as an actor is under appreciated
Hes off his rocker now
Great actor, shit person.
@@neemguy81 why is he a shit person?
Lovely painter too! His art inspires me a lot!
- The Truman Show
- The city of Ember
- The Matrix
Are all great movies
I’ve never seen The City of Ember but if it’s like the other 2 it’s probably worth watching
You forgot the Bourne Identity...
City of ember has a movie? I read the book in third grade and loved it! Is it on Netflix?
Theres also that movie where every day is different cause the humans minds are wiped.
city of ember was an ok movie, the book was much better though
When you said that he left the show and that he is no longer our business, I was relieved. God, I was so interested in if he was gonna find Sylvia, because she is the only true thing he found all along, and I was feeling sorry that the movie didnt show if they even met in the end. Now I get the message, why he left, and why it ended like that in the first place. True masterpiece and I fully enjoyed your breakdown of it. This is a great movie :)
Thanks! The movie is very meta. Characters who are actors for the show often look to the camera and speak directly to us. The movie frames society as treating the real lives of celebrities and ordinary people as entertainment. A real life example would be the media’s obsession with Brintney Spears.
Truman to start, true man to leave
I genuinely thought this was a larger channel at first, because of the good writing and production. Amazing video, you deserve more publicity.
SAME
Thanks! Video essays are grueling to edit but always very rewarding
woah dude, the production quality is the level of a 1 mil+ channel, I was quite surprised to see that it wasn't
Thanks! Video essays like this are such a pain to make
@@Chase4boy I can imagine so, but I will say that your phenomenal at creating them. Good work my dude 👉
I refused to believe you when I read this and had to check. this isn't even fair. get this man his deserved subs!!!!
dang I'm for real shocked too. Holy crap
No it really isn't anything like a 1 mil + channel more like 60k ish. 1 mil channels use much more gimmicks than this
This was definitely an interesting experience for me having never watched the Truman Show!
I cant say that this spoiled any of the movie even after hearing its ending, I wasn't left biased from the information, or thrown off, everything was crystal clear;
Balanced, as all things should be.
You deserve so many more subs with this kind of content ability. lol.
That’s good to hear. This video was an assignment for a class but I decided it was worthwhile to upload to the channel. I wish I had more subs 😭
It's available free on TH-cam
@@eltejano4721
The movie url that had been free, was removed, and the pay-url movie is still available on YT. Like "Dances with Wolves" and other movies, they let the free url be available for several months, then they remove it; they've done this for years. I would guess that pretty soon now, it will be available to watch for free again.
@@cacatr4495$5 on Amazon Prime as of yesterday. That’s the 4K version.
this movie always scared me as a kid and i always told my mom that this is sad and scary i still feel that way
One of the Carey movies I never got around to watching until recently. I'm not sure about anyone else but I got a different vibe from the movie. What I got from it was that it was more of a reflection on society than it was about Truman himself. It seemed to me like it was questioning how far society is willing to go for the sake of entertainment in what was then the relative new world of reality TV. This idea was most likely inspired by shows such as Jerry Springer where peoples misery suddenly became other peoples entertainment.
I worked on it! The entire crew was great and it was a Love Fest! The only flies in the ointment were the Location Manager and, of course, Jim. Peter, The Director, was a fine example of what a human should be. It is still the best script I have ever read, and I’ve been doing this for 3.5 decades.
Why were the location manager and Carrey ‘flies in the ointment’?
@@1515327E The Location Manager was an A-hole and Jim was kind of a Dick because of the pressure of this being his crossover film from Jokester to Actor
Go smoke a bowl
@@1515327E Jim is notoriously hard to work with
Awesome, and the movie has a good clear message.
This breaks the fourth wall in so many ways. A guy who’s an actor who plays a guy that doesn’t know he’s in a tv show just about him
The film treats the audience of the show and the real audience of the movie as one and the same. YOU are the one invading his privacy each day. And when Truman leaves the show, he’s leaving your view because he’s choosing to no longer be an object of your entertainment.
If everyone else is an actor except Truman, and their job is to do the same things every day, then aren't they somewhat trapped just like he is? Can they leave the set/studio? Do they get to take breaks? Or have they all been acting for 30 years non-stop, in the same location?
I was paying extra attention the last time I watched the movie; I picked up on other characters mentioning past extended hospital stays and work trips. I'm assuming those scenarios were fabricated as cover for the actor taking a vacation. You are right though about them being trapped in that world with Truman for the most part; but the vitally important difference is that it's their job and they have a choice, Truman never did and he deserves a chance at a real life.
They get to go home at the end of the day
Now i'm thinking that if one of the actors wanted to quit the show, the producers would create a story that the actor was killed in a car accident and badly mangled, with a closed casket funeral. Or a similar story.
@@daniellanglois89 Yep, or moved away permanently, something like that. I mean, they made Truman think his dad drowned just so that he would be afraid of water and not try to leave the island. I'd say it's messed up, but that's a massive understatement.
@@brennonmyers4226 The extras, maybe.
When I was younger, I thought Christophe was Steve Jobs in person
He has the Jobs look down
I remember being introduced to jim carrey from my uncle chris by watching this movie. The music, the premise, the nostalgia, all took me since i was young watching this. But besides that, the one part where hes looking at family photos and him staring at her crossed fingers never made sense to me until recently. Its pure magic that it still entertains me to this day. And the nostalgia of watching this move just makes me cry🥺
Its kinda sad that no one who was watching the show felt bad that he was there his whole life in a fake reality
It’s implied that Truman’s love interest Lauren was a part of some bigger movement that opposed Truman’s exploitation. But yeah, the ending of the movie seems to be saying that the audience’s connection to Truman was never real. They may have watched him grow up every day, they might have cheered for his success when he finally left the show, but once it ends they immediately find another channel to watch. They never cared for him as a person, they just enjoyed the entertainment he gave them.
that era loved the fake world kind of thing, matrix and the truman show
True! I feel as though the Matrix is more popular but the message of The Truman Show is timeless
It's called Gnosticism. Because it's from Holywood. The Lego Movie is the same theme. Holywood is sold out to the devil and have satanic agendas and to pervert the message of Christ. That's the truth of the Truman show in our real world. Our world is controlled by those people, what you see on TV and cinema, what you hear on radio, world events that occur is carefully controlled by those satanic groups, parts of secret societies plotting in the darkness to keep you as far away as possible from the salvation of the Gospel.
@@ric4397 That’s funny lmao
Wasn’t there a similar movie with Matthew McConoghay?
this was amazing! good job!
Thank you! I appreciate it.
This just kinda appeared on my recommended and I am so glad it did. Now all I want to do is sit down and go insane over another beautifully crafted movie starring the Grinch and that one guy from Miracle (2004)
This video essay is absolutely amazing! You deserve views and subs!!!
Yo thanks!
I watched this movie for the first time the other day and it has completely blown my mind, I will definitely be revisiting it regularly.
Glad I stubbled upon this video, great job!
Amazing quality, script and education. I enjoyed every minute of your video.
"Show must go on..." But really, the show has been going on for longer than The Truman Show or internet. By leaving the film set Truman is not necessarily entering the "real" world with Silvia, but he is just entering another show. And it's ok. The main thing for him would be to Recognize that "that too is a show", a play of the shadows on the cave wall, and be at peace with it, and maybe even find a way out of it.
I always imagined Christof having to face criminal penalties for trying to KILL some one on LIVE television. Hopefully in this world murder is still considered murder. And then there's the fact that Truman could of been entitled to a MASSIVE amount of royalties from all of the money the show made off him.
I like to think that at the end once Truman left and you get the shot of Christof leaning back in his chair he’s not just realizing the effort he’s dedicated the last few decades towards has gone to waste, but also the magnitude of the consequences that he may have to face.
how do you only have 600 subs? you deserve at least a million. Great film review
Great analysis! Would love more
Thanks! I have I have a few video essays in the works and an animation coming real soon
My lord you 100% deserve ten times more subscribers great work buddy
Deep explanation of the scope of this movie.
Well done, enjoyed it.
This movie really made me more aware of my world and my proceptions of what I think are real. The eyes only pass images to our brains but our minds interpret the experience based on our experiences and the cultural environment we are surrounded by. And the eyes only gather light which is sent to the brain.
Its like we exist in some sort of bubble.
Jesus is the light of the world. I know it sounds like a religious sales pitch but truly you cannot see clearly any other way. Many Christians who think they know Jesus are still in darkness. Even knowing what we know through Him we still “see dimly as through a glass.” It takes more dedication & time to see all that the light (Jesus) wants to show us.
crazy good video man, well done!
Thanks!
i wouldn’t doubt that this is a real thing: someone being watch and set up their entire life with human-given people in their life to help shape them
Politicians, Dorsey, Zuckerberg, etc
@Smee Self
You missed their point. They said it could be *real. There's a world of difference between something being real and the word "paranoia." Paranoia means being fearful of something happening that is NOT in Reality. If it's real, then the word "paranoia" is no longer applicable. Remember, paranoia is a fear of something happening that is NOT real. If it's real, then their fear is warranted, valid, grounded in Reality. Paranoia is never grounded in Reality.
Yo wtf y do u only have 400 subs lmao I thought u had at least 1.4 million haha bro keep up the grind fr fr I can’t wait to see what u produce In a year from now just remember me when ur famous I subbed since 400!!!
Thank you for this vid! stay safe and awesome😀
I’m not sure what I enjoyed more. the film? or your breakdown of it
Thanks! But the movie is def better
Amazing video essay man! I was expecting thousands of followers to your name
Watching Truman show now, I just think about Ludwigs Subathon.
Wow not even five minutes ago I was thinking how I wanna watch a TH-cam video analyzing the Truman show then this shows up. Amazing coincidence..... Or is it?
youtube: You’re welcome sir! We know you better than you know yourself
Perfect.
Jeez why in the world do you only have 583 subs!? I can’t wait until you blow up and I can say I was subbed from early on
Same, claiming my first 500 ticket
You guys realize; we do live in the Truman Show
No, they don't realize that; few do.
Great video! More depth would be good, but that's my personal interest.
This video was an essay I made for a film class. I would have liked to elaborate more on the content of the movie along with the parallel to Plato's cave, but the project constraints involved keeping the video under very short
Well made!
Thanks!
Very good video was shocked at the number of views and subscribers
This video has recently taken off for some reason. I’m working on a video essay for 2001: A space odyssey since this one did so well
this was a very well done video remember me when you become bigger dude
Great work, it's a brilliant movie with fantastic acting by everyone especially Jim Carrey and not forgetting Peter Weir's great directing definitely worth checking out some of his other stuff master and commander, a way back and dead poets society are all well a watch even his older stuff like picnic at hanging rock, they're all even better on multiple viewings packed with subtle subtext without talking down or preaching at the audience.
Anyway thanks for your thoughts and great work again
Thanks! My film professor was a really big fan of Peter Weir’s movies and recommended I watch more of them. I have seen dead poets society and that movie is great.
You can leave the cave but the cave will not leave you.
Wow this is a really good video 😊
your views on this are about to skyrocket now that the movie is free with ads on youtube!
In my opinion one of the best movies ever made
Same. I always found it fun as a kid but now I enjoy it so much more.
I watched this movie a couple days ago and I gotta say it’s pretty funny. My dad recommended it to me.
VERY underrated channel and video..! ✌️
Thanks! I hope to have a video essay on Bo burnham out tomorrow
I believe it's a documentary about our "actual" world - even more so than The Matrix.
Good job
Thanks!
We are all living in Truman Show
great video
Good vid man
This movie is deeper than this
I think it was an intention of the film to suggest that we are all Truman. I think that's a great insight. I also like another aspect which is dramatised but intended to reflect us all is 'authenticity'. Similar to films like Chinatown in the 70s when authenticity was at risk in the face of seemingly unknowable and all-controlling political forces, now the threat has changed to the fakery of the virtual world we interact with and has resulted in the same crisis of authenticity. Loved the video
it free to watch on TH-cam rn
Underrated
Wait...this is a stupid question I'm going to ask...if he was born on set did his parents know that he was on the show or were they clueless like him? Also why did they pick him to be on the show? I guess I'll just have to watch the movie myself to understand everything. Great video btw!
Not a dumb question! He was an orphan that was selected as a baby and “adopted” by the corporation that runs the Truman show. Whether he has living biological parents that are aware of his existence or not is unknown. The movie was free on TH-cam for some time, but I believe it is now up to rent.
The movie is on Amazon Prime if you want to watch it
Did you know that Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz grew up in the house shown in the movie as Truman’s home (31 Natchez St, Seaside, FL, 36 in the movie)? In fact his parents Don and Vicky Gaetz still own it. Matt has lots of other problems and I’ll bet he wishes he can escape into the movie version of the house. Verify on Wikipedia. 🥰
Just watched it
Similar to a 1959 book called "Time Out of Joint" by Philip K. Dick -read it
nice
Wow
My only true issue with this movie was how the ending seemed a little rushed. You never see him meet the creators of the show in-person, him reunite with Sylvia, or see him leave the studio into the actual outside world, and when him and Meryl break up you don’t even see them break up. I think this movie could’ve benefited if it was at least 10-15 minutes longer. It just seemed like a lot was missing still. However, it was a great movie whatsoever. I really hope Jim Carey doesn’t actually retire yet.
Honestly I kind of agree. I remember when I first saw it I thought “that’s it?” It leaves you with an incomplete feeling. But I like the interpretation that the whole movie is about whether Truman would choose to stay in a world he knows is fake, and once he does the tension over that conflict is over so the movie doesn’t need to continue. Also since the movie is pretty meta, once Truman leaves the show he also leaves our view since we are the audience that has watched him his entire life.
does that mean the whole world gets to see when truman does his naughty stuff
It’s mentioned by some viewers that it always pans to the window or some shots of flowers while it happens. In the later half Christoff says he wants Truman’s child to be the very first person to be conceived live on air
The part most people aren't seeing is that the dome or flat earth is the public trust, and when the true man realized what was going on he found a way to leave the public and enter the private through the hidden door. This is there for all of us if we make that choice to enter life and being part of the 3D living world that our Creator made for us with dominion over our life, liberty and property.
I think this movie also predicted parasocial relationships. The in universe audience love and worship truman like how we love and worship celebrities and influencers they know everything about him while he knows nothing about the audience
Yes! The ending also solidifies how hollow and fake parasocial relationships are. Over the course of the show, Truman has unknowingly accumulated a massive worldwide audience that fanatically worships him. People cheer for him like they cheer for the Super Bowl, and own merch of him like he’s a hero. Yet the moment Truman leaves, his audience immediately loses interest in him. It’s no accident the last shot of the film is the two cops looking to watch something else once Truman left.
@@Chase4boy yeah the only one who cared about truman and treated him as a person was Lauran every one else saw him as either property, a TV star or entertainment
i just watched this recenelt.
I need to watch it again!
Random question, but since you mentioned Plato, are you a big fan of philosophy? Was wondering if it was just to reference for the themes of this movie or if you were a big fan in general.
oh the shadows of caves thing again
Great video! New subscriber! I wonder if there is fan fiction of Truman part 2???
There probably is, but I wouldn’t know where to find it. I think there is opportunity to tell an interesting story of Truman attempting to acclimate to normal society after living his entire life as a celebrity. But on the other hand, I think any attempt to continue the story might be self defeating. The point of the movie is that we the audience are invading his life without consent. At the end of the film, he makes the decision to not allow us to view him any longer.
Imagine Truman became a actor after leaving the dome and becomes Jim Carrey
Mind blown🎉🎉🎉
Me who learned the cave thing last week at school
Yeah I learned about it in a intro philosophy class lol
The actors are acting like actors so if their acting like actors that means their actors but that means their pretending to be actors which would mean their not actually actors
cool
The Truman show is the idea of Solipsism put in action.
The only thing that is sort of weird about this movie is that it took Truman 30 years to figure out that he was living in a television show.
People don't know, what they don't know, especially if they've been deceived. Belief-structures are powerful; one's thoughts don't even go to questioning beliefs they've had since infancy.
I wonder if they drugged or hypnotized him somehow. Christoff’s company has money, and could hire psychologists. “Ibuprofen” could be anything when it’s an actor giving it to you.
Ever notice how they stopped playing this movie on TV now...
great vid !
Question I have for lawyers out there how much do you think you could get Truman in a lawsuit and what would you be suing for?
In the movie, Christof refers to Truman as “the first baby adopted by a corporation.” This suggests that there are laws or loopholes that exist in the movie’s universe that made it completely legal. That being said, if something like the Truman show happened in our world I could see it being treated the same as wrongful incarceration. He is basically in a prison after all.
I get that he starts "noticing something is weird", because no one refers to these events, but writ large, weird compared to what? He has nothing to base normality on. It would have been so simple to explain these events to him.
His life was designed to be as close to a normal person's as possible. So events like lights falling from the sky, the radio channel discussing his every move, accidents and people getting in his way preventing him from leaving his town, and many more of the other suspicious things would definitely feel out of the ordinary to him.
The Asian guy at the end fought the Karate Kid
Cause the movie is about like me
Main character energy
For some reason, I’ve been obsessed with the concept of this movie lately. IRL, Truman would have sued the $hit out of the corporation who adopted him. Controlling someone’s life in such an insidious way because you “own” them is tantamount to slavery and that’s definitely immoral and illegal.
I think it’s compelling because Truman isn’t inherently super extraordinary. He’s just an ordinary guy for the most part. It makes his life’s situation of being monitored and exploited for tv entertainment feel more plausible, because we all live lives just like truman. It makes me feel a little paranoid despite the likely impossibility.
It’s a real reflective mirror of our superficial materialistic west
Not really
This same argument is used for having children, that I can't have kids until I have the house the dog the picket fence. When it's all just shadows on a cave and inhibits the child from learning the true nature of life. To venture out and carve one's own path and not follow the shadows. We are coddled to it when we are young and conditioned we would never have the courage to do what Truman did and leave that safety net.
This is clearly the matrix
Its a great channel but everyone's getting carried away and some might be correct. I just feel on a video like this. Thats ironic that they all sorta got out of control w the 1 mill mark. Just be happy your here folks. Dont over compensate
The truman is kinda like God watching everything about you.
2:29 I can't understand this shot. What did truman saw here?
His wife had her fingers crossed at their wedding. At this point he’s not exactly certain that he’s in a tv show but very paranoid about it
@@Chase4boy I see now. Thank you 😄
@@Chase4boy
*concerned. "Paranoia" is fear of something happening that is not actually happening, that is not Reality. In the last 30 years, it has become popular to throw that word around, to misapply it to valid fears that are real. There are two kinds of fear: real or imagined. Paranoia is fear of what is imagined, not real. If something is actually happening, the person's concern or fear is valid, warranted, grounded in reality, because it is actually happening to them.
Big Brother is watching you!
You will never understand the level of unparalleled mindfuck.
Only 519 subs!?!?