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【正文】 nists.“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 actually filmed in a real place, the purposebuilt village of Seaside, are similarities with the cult British sixties television series “The Prisoner”, which was also filmed in an eerily perfect seaside village, Portmeirion in North have been lavishing enormous praise on this movie since it opened in America last June, and probably rightly so because it is a superbly crafted piece of 39。s car stunning shot has the town39。s performance has been singled out for particular praise, and though his acting is of a much higher standard that his usual edy antics, it is not exactly Laurence said, an Oscar nomination would have been well film is obviously a satire on the intrusiveness and obsession with celebrity of the modern media。it has been pointed out that Christof whose name is clearly, and quite deliberately, similar to “Christ”, is a Godfigure, whereas Truman(the “True Man”)is a symbolic has even been claimed that the film is an antireligious allegory, with Truman39。s need to break away from outdated religious is not an interpretation with which I would agreeif one is trying to put across a “God is dead” message, it seems odd to provide a Godfigure who is very much real, not mythical or imagery of the final scenes – the calm after the storm, the ascent up a flight of stairs into the sky and cloudsalso struck me as religious rather than , the film seems too plex to be reduced to any single allegorical meaning, although it certainly deals with the relationship between man and also touches on man39。s world may seem unreal to us, but as Christof says, “we accept the reality we are presented with”.This is a brilliant, multilayered film, part edy, part satire, part philosophical speculation, a
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