Recommend a good movie every day, the American drama film "Truman's World" released in 1988 Director: Peter Will Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris
The protagonist, Truman, is a company employee who has lived on a small island in the town of Seahaven since birth, living a comfortable and stable life. What he didn't know, however, was that everyone but him, including his wife and mother, was an actor and crew. Taoyuan Town is actually a huge studio, with more than 5,000 cameras in all corners of the town recording his every move from his birth to the present, broadcast it 24 hours a day in real time to audiences around the world. The show, called the Trueman Show, has been on the air for 30 years. One day, Truman met his father who "drowned" in the sea on the street, which surprised him. A series of strange encounters that followed made him even more suspicious of his surroundings. In the end, with a thirst for truth and love, he overcame his fear of the sea and decided to sail away by boat to escape this huge cage. As his boat sailed to the edge of the studio, director Christopher had a meaningful conversation with him. The director tried to persuade him to stay in this perhaps unreal, but safe Taoyuan town, but Truman refused, and walked out of the studio without hesitation into the unknown world.
Truman's World adopts the narrative structure of "play within a play" (1). The first drama is the "reality show" in the film, Truman, as the protagonist of this reality show, has no idea about this, and the life around him is all carefully planned by the director, and he "really" plays the director's preset life; The second drama revolves around random events in Truman's life, which are planned and arranged by the "reality show" crew at any time. The two plays are interspersed with interviews with director Christopher and the reactions of different audience groups. The camera perspective in the film is multi-faceted, such as the subjective perspective of the characters in the play, the perspective of the hidden camera in the play, the perspective of the director and audience in the play, and the objective perspective of the film, forming a multi-viewing effect. In such a story that strives to gain insight and discover the truth through falsehood, from audiovisual language to actor performance, it is intended to reflect on the game between truth and falsehood under the all-round penetration of the media.
