Reality TV shows are always fascinating, attracting a large audience to watch, because the content of the show is "real life events", the true presentation of all the joys and sorrows of the observed protagonist, and the story of life is naked in front of the audience.
Turn on the TV to accompany the protagonist's emotional climax, guessing his reaction next, or even expecting him to develop, criticizing his mishandling, and muttering to himself: If it were me, I wouldn't have done it.
Reality TV, too close to the audience's own daily life, greatly satisfies the voyeurism in human nature, but also a kind of collective voyeurism, the struggle in other people's lives as a plot discussion after tea and dinner, straight to the addiction!
In general, the protagonists in reality shows are voluntary, signing a contract to agree to disclose a part of their lives as the content of the show. Truman Show is a wonderful reality show like no other!
The director arranged a closed town in advance as a large studio, the street shop sky was full of cameras (more than 5,000), and chose a cute and flexible baby as the protagonist, named Truman, Truman (real person).
His parents, friends, classmates, and lovers and wives were all arranged by the director, and none of them were true! Even the neighboring postman clerk and the passers-by on the street are all actors.
This Truman show, which observes a baby growing up from childhood, is the most interesting and cruel reality show, attracting a large audience around the world 24 hours a day to wonder "What is Truman doing now?" Chasing after "The program team arranged for his girlfriend he knew, did he like it?"
Truman is like a manipulated puppet, accepting the twists and turns of the plot arranged by the director for him, this sincere and enthusiastic big boy has acted in the long-red reality show for more than thirty years, and everyone around him knows that only he himself does not know this secret.
Truman (Kim Carey) has several touching revelations of true feelings. For example, when he recognizes the homeless man on the street as his father who has been missing for many years (in fact, he is only an actor who plays his father and is sent to play a passerby A); in order to find his most beloved first love girlfriend, even if he is afraid of taking a plane or a boat, he must find a way to buy a ticket and bravely try to find her.
When truman is exhausted by the director's (Ed Harris) "script", the audience will not tolerate Truman's ignorance and manipulation, and will also feel guilty about this collective voyeuristic behavior. There must have been a distressed voice in the hearts of many viewers: "I really want to tell him the truth."
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First love girlfriend (Played by Natasha McAyhorn) is the first person in the cast of the show crew who wants to tell Truman the truth, but was immediately taken away by the police arranged in the show, heard that he went to Fiji Island, that day Truman missed her every day, often used model pictures in magazines to piece together her face, although later the director arranged for another girl to approach Truman, married and lived a stable and waveless life, but he hid her in his heart, Afraid of water Truman has always had a thought, thinking of overcoming difficulties to go to Fiji to find her.
One fine morning, a malfunctioning camera fell from the sky, which triggered many of the suspicious things Truman had found in his life for a long time, and he was determined to find out the truth. He was sad and angry to find that everything he trusted around him was fake, including his wife and friends.
Truman wants to walk out of this false world with a sad and indignant mood, rowing a small boat and wanting to sail to his real life. The director in the camera control room was in a hurry, and this successful reality show was about to end because of Truman's departure.
So he first stopped the boat with the storm and waves made by the studio, and then told Truman with a sincere shout: "Stay!" The outside world is in danger you can't imagine, and this is the safest place we have prepared for you." All the spectators also held their breath and waited for Truman's answer.
When Truman said to the director in the air in the language of greeting the neighbors every morning: "Good morning, in case I will never see you again, so first say good afternoon and good night", all the audience laughed with relief and applauded.
Truman bowed deeply to the camera, turned and walked out of the studio, the courage to pursue truth and freedom led him to his own life.
Truman's world is also our world.
Admire the deep sad acting skills hidden in Kim Carey's laughter, thanks to the screenwriter of this movie, the comedy packaging brings us multi-angle reflection.
Life is walking, it seems that there is a destiny script that dominates our life, we must give ourselves more courage, believe that in the limited script can live a more open pattern.
In the era of developed video media, we will inevitably become victims or even perpetrators of collective voyeurism, and self-discipline and social norms should strengthen our efforts.
Above all, neither zeal nor love should be disguised as manipulation, and no one has the right to play God in the lives of others.