Tuesday 3 September 2013

Truman Show

(1998)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:Cinema


An analysis of a protective childhood that is really designed to benefit the parents. It is also about escaping the prison of one’s beliefs in exchange for personal growth – either that, or accept the mental illness that comes from lack of true knowledge. Even well meaning parents emotionally retard kids they seek to shelter since such parents need to be believed in rather than to believe. Infantilizing their offspring also means the parents do not have to grow up, either.

The glaring plot holes are mostly overcome by this clever melodramatic indictment of the West’s cultural emptiness that seeks fake emotions via the pornography of reality tv – and our cowardly desire to live in a gilded cage.

To beat all this requires renouncing belief itself – then the whole exploitational edifice collapses under the weight of its own hubris.


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Posted by Frank TALKER™ at 14:10
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