Released in 1998 and directed by Peter Weir, The Truman Show, which follows Truman Burbank, whom was given up as a baby and raised as the star of his own television show in a town called Seahaven created by Christof, completely unbeknown to Truman.
It rose to huge success with its highly creative, thought provoking and emotional plot-line and is still to this day my favourite film.
There are many reasons as to why I love this film, and the first and foremost being Jim Carrey. His iconic portrayal of Truman was extremely clever as he managed to maintain the emotion of the character without compromising Carrey's lovable humour. Carrey always managed to perfect a characters persona, and he did that with Truman making him extremely charismatic, cheery and all round nice guy.
The Truman show is one of the only films I have ever watched more than once, simply because I could never get bored of it, and it never ceases to amaze me how creative the plot is, and yes, it is a very obscure concept which would probably never happen in real life (because who really has the time) but the fact that Weir makes it seem effortlessly real will always make it stand out to me.
I always felt extremely sorry for Truman whilst watching the film as he was completely unaware that his family, friends and his whole entire life and upbringing was a lie. Everyone he thought cared about him were paid actors and even his "wife" would get paid an extra $10k every time she slept with Truman. The immense betrayal he had been faced with left me with every sympathy for him.
At the end of the film, Truman managed to escape the made up world of his and reaches the set wall. This scene is truly heart wrenching as you know that he is leaving what he thought was his life behind, and stepping into the real world that he wasn't even aware existed.
What I take away from this film is that perfect places don't exist. Christof created Seahaven as a Utopia, so a perfect area many people could only dream of living, but can that really be justified when the whole island is just a big lie, it proves that it's impossible to achieve perfect without destroying something in the making, and in this case Truman's life was destroyed as he was never able to see the real world or make his own friends or just be himself.
I find the whole concept truly remarkable and it's unlike any film i have seen prior or subsequently to it, and if there was to me a remake or a film with a similar concept I truly don't believe anything would compare.
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