The Truman Show: A Cleverly Disguised Tragedy

What's with all the redacted audio?

the way director peter weir said he wanted to have cameras installed in every theater the film was shown in, having the projectionist at one point cut the power, cut to the viewers, and then cut back to the movie... I can't even imagine

i think the most important part of the ending isn't when everyone watching cheers for Truman, it's when they're done cheering and change the channel. That's the real tragedy-- once the movie is over we can change the channel, watch something else, and wonder vaguely about Where He is Now, but Truman is stuck with the consequences of this forever. He can't stop living his life, and his life was destroyed for the fleeting entertainment of strangers who move on the second he stops entertaining them. Even the Free Truman movement seems to be incredibly small-- if it's bigger than just Lauren at all.

I always took Truman's last line as him realizing he had a catchphrase and just saying it to appease the audience before starting his real life.

One scene that always stuck with me was when the bus driver said sorry to Truman, I felt like that was a moment where he broke his character role and actually felt sorry for Truman and how his life has to be, and knowing that he cant do anything to help him

Let’s get real here, if the Truman Show was real. That ending would have been the greatest ending to a TV show ever.

They made this video jokingly as a part of my own truman show

It’s a miracle Truman lasted that long with a wife who reads the labels of every single thing brought into the house

In a world full of actors, Truman really was the only “true man”

Never noticed this before but the boat that Truman took was called the “Santa Maria” which is the same name of Christopher Columbus’ boat that he used to discover “The New World”, and Truman is using it to escape his prison and find a new world, too.

When I first watched this in my psychology my teacher didnt show us the beginning. We found out as Truman did

In the scene early on where he's sent to go across the bay, I always took it not as a way to test him or create drama, but to intentionally put him face to face with a water and the sunken boat at the dock to reinforce the fear. They see him fantasizing about traveling and about Lauren, so they re-expose him to the danger to keep him afraid. Even if he did try to leave in that moment, they would whip up a fake storm, and at that point in the movie, he'd be too scared to continue.

I remember one time we were watching the Truman show in class. Normally whenever they put on something, the students aren't that interested, so when the bell rings they're fully ready to leave. But when we were watching the final scene of the Truman show with the stormy ocean, the bell rang and half the class stayed sitting. Everyone was fully willing to be late to their next class just to see how the movie ends. To me that says alot, because I've never seen such a reaction with any other movie.

Imagine if the Truman Show was just CANCELED when he was 15 or so. How would they break that news to him? "So you're what's known as a former child star now..."

I always thought that the reason they give Truman the job to deliver something across the bay is because it makes it seem like he is staying in his city by his own volition. If he was never offered a chance to leave the city it would make it easier to doubt the validity of the world around him, but by making it seem like it is his choice he doesn't doubt it in the least until forced to.

His fear of the ocean was not 'holding onto characterization' it IS his characterization. That is what the show intended. They manufactured his talassophobia to control Truman better. So that they DON'T have to deal with him leaving. It's the whole point, not a side fact that they "luckily kept in"

The moment when he touches the wall and you see it wash over him that he was right and he didn't want to be right, always gets me

They sent Truman to cross the bay to REMIND HIM that he had a terrible fear of water. To REINFORCE that fear.

By the end we all felt like 1 of 3 people. Truman, Christoph or the guy in the bathtub.

I love that when Marlon and Truman are talking Marlon is drinking a beer but he is somehow very aware of which camera is active (how?) and keeps turning the beer can in a non-obvious way so that the label is always facing the camera.