Jim Carrey is known as a comedic actor,\ndespite having featured in serious, dramatic movies like The Truman Show and\nEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But in 1990s, Jim venturing to do\nsomething more novel and intense in nature like The Truman Show was even more\npeculiar for people familiar with his body of work. \u2018A big risk\u2019 is the phrase\nthe actor often encountered during those times. However, that \u2018risk\u2019 proved to\nbe very successful. It brought him and the film lots of critical as well as\ncommercial acclaim. I remember watching Jim\u2019s speech years later on YouTube\nupon receiving a Golden Globe for The Truman Show. \u201cThis is serious. It is\ngonna be so hard to talk out of my a** after this. But I will manage. What a\nshocker, I mean if you look back at some of my earlier dramatic work\u2026\u201d The\nspeech was self-deprecating, self-aware, funny of course and full of gratitude.\nAnd those are, more or less, the adjectives I would use to describe The Truman\nShow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The movie revolves around Jim Carrey\u2019s Truman\nBurbank, who doesn\u2019t realise that is whole life is a lie. He has been adopted\nby a corporation that runs a TV network. And that network broadcasts a reality\nshow called The Truman Show, where millions of people around the world sit and\nwatch Truman battle life and its challenges. Everyone is in on the act except\nour hero. He doesn\u2019t know that his wife, best friend, parents \u2014 everything is\nstaged. Does he ever discover the truth, and what happens when he does? That\nforms the crux of the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Truman Show showed a vulnerable, soft,\nserious, but still hilarious side of Carrey the artiste. The actor was not only\nbelievable as the somewhat gullible, good-natured and well-meaning Truman, he\nrose to the occasion and proved all his critics wrong. Many until then had recognised\nCarrey\u2019s talent as a comedic performer, but no one had thought of him as an\n\u2018actor.\u2019 And The Truman Show made that section of the audience really sit up\nand take notice of Carrey\u2019s undeniable talent and sensitivity as an actor.\nHowever, I would really give more credit to director Peter Weir who thought\nCarrey could pull off his vision. The Truman Show was a well-cut, directed,\nperformed, all-around stand-up movie. And it\u2019s even more relevant today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Truman Show threw the spotlight on\ncelebrity culture, the mind-numbing effect of reality shows, and it also\ndiscussed one of the major themes of Christianity \u2014 Predestination vs Free\nWill. Do we really have control over the events of our lives? No, not on all of\nit, for sure. But can we choose our reaction to it? How would we face that\nchallenge, that adversity, is completely up to us. The Truman Show gives no\nstraight answers even as Jim Carrey plays the everyman and Ed Harris\u2019\ncreator-producer character plays God. There is this constant push and pull in\nthe script that\u2019s reflected on screen. Do we know things? Can Truman really be\nthat blind? And really, what is real in this ever-changing world? The best part\nabout The Truman Show is that despite tackling such heavy topics, the film\nkeeps the laughs coming. And it is all the better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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