UHD Review The Truman Show UHD Review (1 Viewer)

[Neil Middlemiss]

The Truman Show was a big hit. A $60MM “art” film, as a nervous Paramount executive apparently described it, unaware that the combination of Carrey and an intriguing, clever idea would resonate so well and reach $264MM gross at the worldwide box office. It’s more than just a match-up of a popular actor and a clever idea, though. Something about the film connects, something conjured between the idea and the plot. Did audiences feel the film to be a meditation on choice, the freedom of the individual over the nature of fate or control (whatever that controlling entity would be), or see it as an expression of our inherent need to have and pursue dreams against a world hellbent on dashing or dismissing them? Maybe it was just the fun of seeing Jim Carrey bounce around a show he didn’t know he was in. Whatever the larger point writer Andrew Niccol and director Peter Weir were making, The Truman Show is an unusual experience driven to the compelling by Jim Carrey’s stunningly endearing...

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