26 Years Later, The Truman Show is Proven Real

[snoookie]

My favorite thing about the movie is that it ends on Truman leaving. It kinda makes you think "oh by the way, this is just a movie, now go out there and live".

[cowboiky]

I was a Jehovahs Witness and grew up watching the Truman Show. They definitely demonized doing any critical investigation of the sect's history or theology, and instead insisted constant service to the religion through meetings and door to door work. I had my voyage moment when I decided to do research on the org and it felt extremely liberating to leave it behind.

[terpsidance.]

The trouble with the allegory of the cave is when we exit the cave, we can't know for certain we haven't simply entered another cave with more convincing puppets

[calgreen]

I feel like I’ve waited a quarter of a century for this video essay. Did anyone else imagine they were on a hidden camera show after watching The Truman Show?

[Zepol]

After leaving the Truman show studio he later goes to city of Buffalo and becomes the worlds greatest field reporter

[ricardorivas]

lots of 90s movie did the "deconstructing the 50s tropes" so much that its kinda a trope of the 90s, its the nature of children standing up to their parents and tearing down their ideals

[GlennDavey]

13:09 The fact that Neo has powers in the "real world" shows that "the real world" is actually within another Matrix, but that is never properly explored in the films, unfortunately

[markmaurer]

Jared's way of summarizing movies and novels and such it's really excellent. He knows just how to capture the essence of a story in a single paragraph sometimes less. You don't have to do that a lot, so you don't realize how hard it is to do it as well as Jared does

[laneyarcade]

Total Recall is pretty reality-questioning too

[NieNin]

I find Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) to be very interesting in this aspect. The characters constantly struggle with continuing disillusionment wanting back what once was (getting their original bodies back), until at the end they accept the struggle, the responsibility with the complications, and continue in their lives, driven for just each other. It is the darkest part of coming of age portrayed incredibly well.
I would be over the moon, if you once would make a video on it.

[LuisRomeroLopez]

I remember that on online forums it was said that there was an alternate ending in which as he walked out the door, Truman walked into an alley where a man was robbing an elderly woman and simply turned around and walked back to the set. The concept by Echo and the Disney example *makes a LOT of sense* of this myth.

[xagatal]

I would hate to be Truman, having everyone around me lying and never having an authentic connection to anyone, make seashore sounds like nightmare psychological torture dome.

[phyarth]

Disney castle based om German and Spanish medieval castle that was built in 19 century based on very popular Romantic style of knights, chivalry. (Mark Twain and Monty Python opinion about - Sir Walter Scott. He was a loony). Disney castle is hyper hyper realism.

[zqxzqxzqx]

Had to laugh at myself the other day. While watching The Andy Griffith Show, I was annoyed with obvious tropes, until I realized I was watching one of the SOURCES of those tropes...

[bobSims]

Wow. You make me want to do Film Studies and I had no idea I was even interested in this.

[samdiego]

What was it about the late 90s and movies about guys who are disillusioned with their mundane lives? There was the Truman Show, Office Space, the Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, and I’m sure I’m forgetting a few others

[jsidious]

Dark City was an homage to a much earlier example of this genre -- Metropolis.

[BrooklynBwoii]

Its crazy how we grew up and found out amnesia is not that common a problem in real life after tv shows made us believe otherwise 😂

[dl]

I LOVED Eco’s Travels In Hyperreality! It was pretty old, even when The Truman Show was just out. You do a great job of showing how these two works relate to each other, and how they’re both relevant and both worth discussing now.

[th_century_relics]

All of the closets are cluttered with our abused and broken skeletons and the elephants in the room have become passé; we've hunted down the maguffins and ripped out all of their magical stuffing, and soon every beautiful secret will become cliché. *sK*