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【正文】 y with some very obvious symbolism.“The Truman Show”, although it deals with some weighty issues, is never ponderous or excessively serious。s lifeMeryl, his mother, his colleagues at work, his best friend Marlonare actors playing out their roles in his thirty years Truman has accepted his world unquestioningly, but at the beginning of the film a series of incidentsa light falling from the sky, the reappearance of his father, who was supposed to have drowned in a boating accident when Truman was a boy, strange messages picked up on his car radioawaken his members of the cast make strenuous attempts to dissuade him, he decides to try and explore the world outside Seahaven。第一篇：楚門(mén)的世界英文影評(píng)Life is starting to imitate satire.“The Truman Show” was only made seven years ago, but it predates the current mania for socalled “reality” television shows such as “Big Brother”.The idea behind such shows is that they present the viewer with a slice of actual realityreal people in real situations with real emotionsrather than the simulated reality of drama or the edited reality of flaw in this idea is that nothing is more unreal than a reality presence of the cameras has a distorting effect, inducing artificial behaviour patterns in those who appear in front of it, and the sort of people who star in such programmes are almost invariably eccentric exhibitionists.“The Truman Show” takes the central concept of reality TV shows one stage further in order to overe this flaw: what would happen if we made a reality programme about a person who has absolutely no idea that he is appearing on television? Truman Burbank is an insurance executive, living in a small American seaside town called Seahaven, and happily married to a nurse named at least he thinks he Truman doesn39。t know is that he is the central character in a soap opera and that his whole life is a pany he works for does not , the island it stands on and the surrounding ocean are all part of a gigantic set, specially created for the programme and sealed off from the outside world in a gigantic geodesic in Truman39。in particular he wants to travel to Fiji where he has been told that his former girlfriend Sylvia now lives.(Sylvia was written out of the show when the scriptwriters decided that he should marry Meryl instead).The film has certain similarities with another film from the late nineties, “Pleasantville”, which dealt with an inverted version of the same idea。indeed, it is often very main source of humour is the contrast between the na239。s enigmatic factor in the success of the film is its visual (like the town in “Pleasantville”)appears as an eerily perfect, notquitereal version of the typical American small town, but was actu
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