Everything GREAT About The Truman Show!

Fun Fact: Jim Carrey was getting tired of doing comedies and wanted to do a serious movie to show that he's not just a goofball. And when he read the script for the Truman Show, he loved it so much that he agreed to do it for a fraction of what he normally charges.

This film didn't predict reality tv, it predicted family vloggers

Fun fact: When constructing her character's backstory, Laura Linney decided there was a clause in Meryl's contract that stipulated a $10,000 bump every time she and Truman had sex.

I always saw the final "Good afternoon, good evening and good night" plus the bow was not just to get the final snarky line, but to even create some doubt that maybe he was in on it the entire time and thus devalue all Chrisoff's work

For those saying that Truman will never get a moment of solitude, the ending where both guys' quick attention span cause them to change the channel is the right bow to cap off the gift of this storytelling.

I really wish they kept the deleted scenes where they reveal Marlon is extremely guilt ridden by what he has done to Truman becoming alcoholic and drug-addicted outside of the show. There's also a scene where he finds Truman at the end but decides to cover it up and let him escape. I think it would have helped flesh out how the actual cast is affected by this, especially those who have had to be there from the start.

11:55 - Upon rewatch I've come to interpret Truman's response to Marlin's line as the gut-wrenching realization that Marlin just inadvertently confirmed that he is indeed in on the ruse. Once he came to realize that, Truman knew that no one could be trusted. Not even his conveniently returned father.

Okay, but can we talk about what a mind-blowing series finale the in-universe Truman Show had? Truman starts breaking the fourth wall, tries to escape, talks to God, says his catchphrase one last time, and exits stage right. He even takes a literal bow for the audience. 10/10, best ending ever, both in-universe and out.

I did the “skip to the title card” thing with a friend who knew nothing about the movie. He figured out Truman was on TV when he walked into the elevator, but didn’t realise he’d been on TV his whole life and was the only one not in on it until they outright reveal it in the movie. It was fun watching him slowly put the pieces together!

About that "killing Marlon" thing: there are actually two cut scenes from the movie that would have made him more likable. The first is a scene where the producers and Christof are talking about what to do when Truman has a child, and they want to move to a two-channel setup - one channel devoted to Truman himself, the other to his child. Then Marlon, in a tone of voice that tells you he really isn't okay with this, says "So, if Truman dies, we go back to the one channel?" The second is near the ending, when the search party is looking for Truman. Marlon actually finds him, in a disguise. Truman looks at Marlon, scared. Marlon looks at him for a few seconds, then turns around, and yells "Truman?! Where are you?!", letting Truman escape. I understand why they didn't put these scenes in the movie, but I would have still liked to see it.

I'm surprised you didn't highlight my favorite quote in the whole movie. It's hard to catch because Carrey quickly whispers it, but as he is talking to Christoff, he says, "You never had a camera in my head." This is a fantastic line that shows that Christoff and the audience, despite watching him his whole life, didn't actually know who Truman was. Life is like that for everyone. We judge others based off of what we see, but we don't actually know who they are on the inside and what enigmatic mechanations are going on inside their head. What we think a person actually is will most likely not be who they truly are, no matter how close we are to them and how much we watch them, and that was the beauty of that single line.

Not necessarily a missed win but something I noticed before Truman's final line, is that the music keeps repeating the same chord like 4 times after Kristof says his line, because Truman is "missing his cue" by actually thinking about what he wants to say. Just thought it was a neat detail.

8:48 It gets even better. The reason she has the makeup bib and comes into the room all flustered is because they had to get the actress ready unexpectedly and in a rush. They never expected Truman to show up at the travel agency considering all the work they put into scaring him out of ever traveling, by sea (father’s death) or plane (radio announcement about the falling stage light, poster on the travel agency wall, etc.) Truly, this film is a masterpiece.

This film was special due to the mix of comedy and drama. Many consider it a tragedy due to the ending, though I argue the opposite. The tragic truth isn't what Truman leaves behind, but what he had to fight for to get that freedom.

It's criminal Jim Carrey wasn't nominated for Best Actor for this film. His performance as Truman was pitch perfect, it's one of my favorite lead actor performances of all time.

"Is that the best you can do. You're gonna have to KILL ME." is one of the few lines in all of cinema that actually gives me chills even after rewatching the scene countless times.

The actual life of Truman after he's left the dome would be so complicated. As the most famous person on the planet he'd have to fight the endless waves of reporters. Then the company that sponsors The Truman Show would have to engage in a lawsuit or two, since they basically imprisoned Truman for 30 years. And then he would take years to adjust to a new reality (see The Shawshank Redemption). All in all, it would be a difficult life for Truman, but it is the one he chose.

The film is almost too perfect to have a sequel but if there ever was one, my personal ideal version would be to have it as a found-footage thing where avid fans of Truman try to piece together his movements from documentaries, cctv footage and so on.

"In the age of war and genocide being captured on the phones of those committing atrocities and those having atrocities committed against them, the rest of us are all sitting in our Truman-themed bar, hoping for the best" that really hit home for me.

My absolute favorite shot in the movie is at 17:47 He’s looking down on Truman on his little tablet, from his base of operations on the moon, someone who manufactured and entire life for someone out of a sick desire to create art, and here, while he’s looking down on Truman, he looks miserable. Almost humbled. The sky in front of him, his creation at his fingertips, and yet he is hunched over and looks powerless. He likes to think of himself as a god, but all he created was a television show. A sick television show. And here we see him as that. A sick, pathetic creator, who has been beaten by his creation