Back in 1998, ‘The Truman Show’ shocked the public with how funny, heartfelt, and thought-provoking it is. The audience loved it, critics loved it, and it today it remains an endless classic.
And this is true. 'The Truman Show' is a masterpiece, in all accounts. Built on a brilliant premise, with great direction, flawless editing and cinematography, and Jim Carrey's outstanding performance, 'The Truman Show' does not have many imperfections in fact. It checks the boxes all over.
A good film has to do three things with its plot in an ideal world: it has to be open, understandable and interesting to the stereotypical audience, it has to have a powerful and defined character to stand in the center of it, and it has to be layers. Most good movies suit one of those criteria, some suit two, but it is very rare that the writing of a movie is so good it suits all three. 'The Demonstration in Truman' does. And it is that last point, the layering, which to this day has people rewatching and talking about the movie.
‘The Truman Show’ is filled with thought-provoking ideas, meanings, metaphors, Easter eggs, themes, and motifs. What follows is a guide to a better understanding of those things within ‘The Truman Show’. Keep in mind, this will be fairly compact and the points will overlap; there is so much to talk about this film and one could easily write a book about it; it’s impossible to fit everything in one article.
Here is the trailer for you to watch.