The Truman Show

Touching, funny, poignant - all together and perfectly executed. I don't know how Americans, as a TV nation, viewed it, but given the decent box office returns, they probably liked it. I would love to play this movie for the soap opera addicts to enjoy as well. You can see them in the perfectly staged shots of loyal TV viewers - the two old ladies hugging couldn’t have been better. But they might not get it... "What is Lima doing again? Change the channel, this is awful." (07/21/2002)

Peter Weir is truly a director with capital D and here he has created one of the most original films of all time. Such a range of emotions, so many fantastically written and even better acted characters and, last but not least, a story that you might hate at first, but will gradually come to love and by the end you will never want to see another film again – something like this really doesn't just fall out of the sky. And the ending was simply perfect in every way and immediately ranks among the best I've seen so far – I didn't know whether to rejoice, cry or just stare and enjoy what was happening in front of me. All I know is that The Truman Show is one of those films that made FilmBooster possible and that people will continue to watch for a long time, and that will always leave the same unrepeatable impression on them. MY APPLAUSE!! (06/05/2012)

Along with Memento, this is probably the most original Hollywood movie of the 1990s. The idea behind it is brilliant, executed in a perfect symbiosis of depth of thought with tremendous emotions. I admire The Truman Show for absolutely every component of it. I understand that it may not captivate everyone, just as the supposedly brilliant American Beauty, for example, didn’t captivate me. (05/15/2003)

A wonderfully conceived and cleverly crafted story, thanks to the advertisements during the broadcast, weather changes, and the shining sun, excellently directed by Peter Weir and perfectly acted by Jim Carrey. The guy whom I have always admired for his countless facial expressions delivers a stellar performance in a poignant drama wrapped in a sharp satire. A must-watch for all paranoids. (01/19/2007)

It’s been long since a film thrilled me this much. Funny, poignant, original; perfect, really. The premise exploits the contrast between utopia (Truman’s artificial but safe and carefree life) and anti-utopia (the TV mogul controlling human lives from an almost god-like position while people watch it without complaints). Although both have a common basis: the absence of the right to be freely happy or unhappy, they have two very different causes: Truman is denied this right from above, while the viewers don’t give a toss about it, for them it’s enough that Truman is enjoying this right, even though he doesn’t actually have it, which puts us in a vicious circle where nobody is free, but nobody cares. How much this situation reminds us of our world, that’s up to each one of you. The Truman Show offers a lot of food for thought in an entertaining package, and I love it. 100% (12/28/2008)