I saw this film months ago, and found it
massively stupid and gratuitiously emotional. The entire premise
is unbelievable to begin with, and so sets up a scenario that
continues to build on that unbelievablility. For instance, when
Truman attempts to drive off the island with his wife, a host of
policemen come out to track him down. Very stupid piece of the
story.
Then there is the notion that a woman would
live (and have repeated sexual relations) with a man she doesn't
care for, give up her entire youth, for a part in a television
show. In fact, the notion that all these people would live their
lives around Truman for the sake of a paycheck is absurd when
they face the prospect of never being able to enjoy any of the
money, trapped as they are in Truman's life story.
Finally, one has to abandon all notion of civil
liberties to find this story in any way possible, not to mention
that only one out of millions of people (Americans, one presumes
from the location), even sees any crime being committed here.
I found this movie to require one to suspend
all reality, yet at the same time it wants to connect you to a
reality that has the familiarity of the world as we know it.
While science fiction requires a similar suspension of reality,
the world it builds is usually far enough removed from the real
world we live in that the leaps of logic and accuracy required
are simply not so mind numbing as to make one feel foolish.
