The Truman Show/ Starring Jim Carrey,Ed Harris; Director/Peter Weir; 1998.
A daring movie that shows us how people can work on faking life for other people. And how shocking it is for people to one moment one day find out that all their past life was not real, was fake, was built on nothing … absolutely nothing. In the movie it is so easy to restart a new life; but in reality it is not easy at all.. it might even be not possible to make a restart. How horrible it is this process of life faking for personal interest and benefit. No one has the right to do that, not individuals, not organizations and not even parents as mentioned at the last scene of the movie.
When Truman wanted to leave his fake life longing to find something more real, he went to a travel agency. In the office was a big poster with a plane in a storm saying “It could happen to you.” When THEY do not want someone to travel, this is what they tell. And ……………That is why it is tremendously important to learn to follow our own hearts,move with our own motives, finding out ourselves our own roads in life.. Trusting whom we KNOW and FEEL would be trusted.
Hide the truth is a common attitude at the time that all we need is the truth. The movie incredibly shows how we could be led and intruded by others into unreal situations, unreal lives.
When life becomes that fake, anything true would not fit and is kicked away automatically making the job easy for the beneficiaries.
I loved the movie specially when I could read between the lines. It is breath taking just imagining applying this movie on our lives. The most touching scene was the last one… the director did a great job expressing the shock of ‘Truman’ discovering that all his life has been totally fake.Truman, the main character could have so easily continued his life as it is in its routine without finding out it was fake, but the human part in him, his intuition, his need of a real life… all this represented in very strong desire helped him discover and find out the reality and all this encouraged him to restart at the age of 30 a bran new true life.
I loved the movie from the first time i saw it too, it is a wonderful piece that take you in a deep journey of questions, I remember the saying of my prof of laser, “vision happens in the mind” and the horizons it opened to me to think of the validity of the things we learned as constants of life and the possibility that this is all made up in our minds to suit what we need
just one note, many people don’t seek the truth, they seek what they like even if it is not true, I believe we all have some percentage of this “ill-desire” to live in a fancy world, just when this percentage gets huge we turn into psychological patients and need real help
in truman show movie, the restart of life wasn’t easy at it didn’t handle his next stage and how will he handle it, it showed the decision was easy, I really don’t know if the decision will be that easy or not, but sure if i was in his place, it wouldn’t take more than few seconds from me before i decide -just like him- to go for the real life, others may not do so, I really don’t know
I agree with you.. I one day thought that the truth is everybody’s goal but I found out it definitely is not..!
Like you mentioned yourself.. the decision for us truthseekers is as easy as he took it but for others.. they may never consider or it may take them years to decide.. and definitely.. what you find out of the real life after being dumped in a fake one.. is not so easy to handle.. ask me about it.. ask ‘megarrab’!!