There are so many things to comment on for this movie. I thought the Truman Show was a good movie, an interesting concept, and it was a different side of Jim Carrey. One wonders why he does not do more roles like this one.
The line that keeps buzzing around in my head is when Ed Harris says, “Cue the sun.” There is something so richly ironic about a television producer deciding to control an almighty force like the sun. Typically, Mother Nature is the one thing that human beings cannot control and they can only predict it to a certain degree.
I keep thinking about the issue of product placement. When Laura Linney made the pitch for Mococoa in the middle of a heated, emotional argument with Truman it was blatantly commercial. But a couple years ago there was a heated debate over a publisher who was starting a line of young adult fiction books were companies could pay to have a product placement. In other words the heroine (the books were marketed to girls) would use a certain brand of make-up and only that brand in the story. Whether or not this is ethical is still up for debate.
Christoph says we accept the reality of the world we’re presented. I think this is both unfortunate and true. I think if less people had accepted the President’s rhetoric about Iraq as the reality we lived in, and instead had asked some more questions, we might not be there at all.
