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The Truman Show

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Isn’t it scary when media predicts the future? For everyBack to the Future 2,which was wildly optimistic about 2015 (where’s my hoverboard?), there’s a Nostradamus-level prediction, usually fromThe Simpsons.Well perhaps the most accurate depiction of all comes from a movie that turns 25 this year, and it’s leavingNetflixon the 1st of January

The Truman Showis a seminal comedy that depicts the ultimate form of reality TV, a man’s entire life. Jim Carrey plays the titular Truman, a man who has lived his whole life as the unwitting star of his own show. Everyone around him is an actor, sponsors follow him everywhere, and his entire life is a lie. His home is a giant dome, even with a false sky. It’s the ultimate form of impostor syndrome, and it’s all completely true. Spooky on an existential level.

In the outside world, Truman is the world’s biggest celebrity. People sit in bars and watch the show like live sport, and have done for nearly thirty years while director Christof (Ed Harris) sits on a moon base controlling the feed. See any parallels with modern-day life (cough ‘social media’ cough)?

If this all sounds a bit tooBlack Mirrorfor a laugh, you’d probably be right, but Jim Carrey is a comedy great for a reason. This is arguably his finest performance (along withEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), he’s funny and sad all at the same time.

Already experiencing a wanderlust for the outside world (he’s desperate to go to Fiji to find a lost love) he sees his late father, who was ‘written out’ years ago, and questions inevitably arise.

Although this movie is leaving,Netflixhas finished 2023 strongly with a superb Natalie Portman-led drama headlining its December arrivals. But make time for theTruman Show Please. And if I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.

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