Chapter 2009: 2009 Lingering Aftertaste
Almond's film review is interpreted from an unexpected angle. The definition of the blurred line between real and unreal is not like a film review of a comedy film, but a metaphysical philosophical work, and it is also like a science fiction. Movie reviews, it's a really interesting thing.
But I have to admit that Almond's point of view has won the approval of many people, and almost everyone has similar ideas more or less, more or less deeply or shallowly. With Almond's interpretation, "The Truman Show" can be watched from another angle, which is really a very interesting thing: the taste of science fiction can be seen from comedy movies.
Almond published this film review in the "New York Times", accompanied by a 100-point affirmation, Almond sent his highest praise. For such a comedy movie, such an evaluation is almost unimaginable. Even in the long history of film, the works of countless comedy masters are difficult to reach such a height, which is also an important manifestation of the limitations of comedy films.
On the other hand, the well-known Roger Ebert published his film review in the "Chicago Sun-Times" without exception. This film critic, who has always maintained an objective and authoritative attitude, after the premiere ceremony , before writing a film review, he told the reporters who came to interview, "I am very amazed by Hugo's vision for picking films."
From this sentence, we can see Roger's attitude towards "The Truman Show".
The fact is the same, Roger once again gave "The Truman Show" a full score of 100 points, and gave a strong recommendation of four stars, even Roger himself couldn't help but sigh, "I can't remember This is the first time I have given Hugo Lancaster full marks and four stars, but I believe it will not be the last."
"Freedom to death, glory to death", Roger wrote this review with such a very iconic title, in fact, the title is "Liberty or death; Death complements each other, and from this we can also see the tone of the entire review.
"'The Truman Show' is a brutal contest between human nature and society.
Peeping is the catharsis of the evil and dirty thoughts in the human heart. It comes from darkness, but it appears openly in every corner of our life, because everyone has this kind of psychology close to perversion deep in their hearts. That's how gossip and the paparazzi were born, and even more so when 'reality TV' first really came out in 1994.
It is precisely because of the dark voyeurism of the human heart. Desire, we are like the audience in "The Truman Show", strongly eager to spy on every move of Truman's life, and the more than 5,000 hidden shots are our dream eyes in real life. Therefore, in order to satisfy human desires. Hope, for a steady stream of benefits, someone came up with such a wonderful idea: to adopt a newborn baby and imprison him, and then build a perfect world for him, allowing people all over the world to spy on his life together. Everything except him is fake, just an actor.
To the audience, it's a TV show; but to the baby, it's a lie.
Truman Burbank has become the carrier of greed, desire, fear and darkness in the whole society, carrying all the dark sides on this person openly. But hide in steal. peep. want. Behind the hope, people ignore a very important thing: compared to stealing. From a peek, the true nature of human desires. Desire is self, it can be said to be selfish, it can also be said to be self-reliant, but in the final analysis, it is to establish an independent self, get rid of all shackles, get rid of all control, and live out the self bravely. When all the dark sides become the shackles that bind the wings, the human nature will explode, and strive to break free from all the shackles and find themselves again.
We call it, freedom.
Truman dreamed of exploring since he was a child, hoping to explore the world that Magellan had not been able to explore. The program producer killed this dream in the cradle with the blow of the teacher and the barking of the vicious dog, but obviously this was not enough, so The program group caused Truman's father to suffer a shipwreck, and even let Truman witness all this with his own eyes. Such a cruel method was very effective, and made Truman completely fear the sea.
The program production team used this method to control Truman's thoughts in the way of God. They thought they could suppress human nature and let Truman spend his life on Paradise Island with peace of mind. They control every detail of Truman's world. Except for Truman, everyone in his life is an actor, from the homeless on the street to the owner of the newsstand, from the next-door neighbor to the company colleagues, from his family. From his wife to his close friends, from his family to friendship to love, even sunrise and sunset, rain and snowfall are all under control.
More than 5,000 cameras monitor Truman's life from all aspects, allowing all audiences around the world to see every detail of Truman's life, and allowing the program crew to control Truman's world from every corner, but only He opened a camera-the camera in Truman's brain, which is also a field that humans cannot reach, and it is also a field that God cannot control.
This is precisely the only loophole in "The Truman Show".
Truman is a person, a living person, the existence of a soul with independent thinking ability. Even if there are no accidents, Truman can feel the difference in those emotions in his heart, and it all starts with love.
Behind the seemingly perfect and happy married life, there is always a lingering emptiness hidden. His wife is like a delicate Barbie doll, but without any vitality. He longs for a response from his wife, but he always faces the empty valley Shouting, so Truman began to look for refuge in his inner emotions. Perhaps, the first love of "Lauren" is just a symbol. After many years, he has already forgotten the true meaning of that relationship, but this symbol is the only real warmth that Truman has ever touched in his heart. Just like Fiji is to Truman and Lauren is to Truman, it is just a dream in life, a vague but real dream.
Truman has been searching hard for the answer, but he can't get rid of the fog in front of him. He staggers forward, but he is still unwilling to give up. The program group tried to play God, controlling Truman's life, emotion, and thoughts, but they forgot that even God cannot control human emotions and thoughts.
The fissures in the virtual world began to grow gradually, the alienation of love, the deceit of family, the betrayal of friendship... Truman's heart full of scars has become empty. At this time, Truman really realized the desire in his heart: this is a false world, a world full of lies. Although he didn't know what was going on, he knew that everything around him was false. And the perfect life piled on top of these countless falsehoods is also meaningless, like a castle in the air, a mirage in the desert.
Even his own existence is false.
Only by breaking free from this bondage can he embrace freedom and find his true self. So Truman chose to leave. What's ridiculous is that the program team once again played the role of God: violent winds and storms, turbulent tsunamis, wave after wave to stop Truman. But Truman, who has overcome the fear of the sea, desires freedom above everything else. He would rather die than return to that "Truman's world", which is someone else's world, not his.
The whole world knows that this is a reality show, but except for a woman, no one is willing to tell him the truth. As the program team said, this world is sick. But we would rather live in a sick world than be a doll of it: here there is no privacy, no personality, no dignity, no freedom. Even if this is a perfect life, even if this is a paradise, but after losing the self, it is just a walking dead without a soul.
If you refuse to hand over your own destiny to others and decide the direction of your own destiny, then everyone can be the director of your own life instead of an actor in someone else’s world—because in someone else’s world, we cannot Own anything real, let alone own your own, including family, friendship and love.
In the end, Truman broke free from the shackles, resolutely walked towards the dark exit, faced the unpredictable future, and embraced the first time in his thirty years of life that truly belonged to him——freedom.
One's own life, one's own thoughts, one's own ideals, one's own freedom are more important than anything else, because only one's own soul dominates one's own, and here, no strange person can control it. When you have freedom, the world can be infinite, and you can write your own script with sufficient freedom, so that the life you direct will have flesh and blood, and freedom will inject soul into life, making life have different colors.
For freedom, even at the expense of life, it is not hesitating. Because this is the nature of human beings. If freedom is lost, life will lose its meaning of existence.
This has always been an eternal theme of human life, from Martin Luther King to Betty Friedan, from slave society to capitalism, from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' to 'Shawshank's Redemption'... in In the contest between human nature and cruel society, the one who wins is always the desire for freedom.
If someone tries to play the role of God in vain, using force to control other people's lives, forcing others to obey their orders with their own outlook on life, world outlook and values, and killing human nature with so-called destiny...then this is the real tragedy .
Hidden behind this sadness is the use of this 'right' to satisfy human selfishness. Desire, the spirit of entertainment to death is brought to the extreme, this is the beginning of social degeneration, this will be the starting point of the entire society's decay, decay, and collapse. The disintegration of the world is happening right in front of your eyes! "