Grade:  B+

Director:  Peter Weir		Released:  June 1998
Writer:  Andrew Niccol		MPAA Rating:  PG
Players:  Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney		Running time:  103 minutes

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The Truman Show is an excellent concept film.  The concept is: what if a man was on television his whole life and never knew it.  Of course, elaborate measures need to be taken to make such a concept work, a whole town is created where all the residents of the town are in on the deception.  And there is a producer who oversees the whole thing in a godlike fashion.  Truman starts to feel like something is weird and gets a desire to escape the town ... wackiness ensues.

I enjoy the unique camera perspectives that Weir uses.  Every so often we'll see Truman through a peephole camera hidden inside a radio or some other device.  These shots really help to create Truman's world, where he is being watched everywhere he goes.

Jim Carrey gives his best performance to date.  He can project an innocence (also the reason he was right to play Andy Kaufman) which is perfectly suited to Truman, a guy who has no grasp on what reality is like, and is also very unaware of that fact.

- crocoPuffs