Analyzing Evil: Christof From The Truman Show

Hello everyone and welcome to the seventy-ninth episode of Analyzing Evil! Our feature villain for this video is Christof from the Truman Show. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

#TheTrumanShow #JimCarrey #Christof

[noizetv]

From a villain POV, Christof messed up when he let the "father" return. Once that happened it erased all of that trauma bottled up in Truman's soul creating that final push he needed to face his fear. The water.

[aeric_]

The Line "Cue the Sun" was such a menacing line in a movie like this.

[mattturner]

Thank you for including a nod to the show's hidden villains: the audience.
All that is required for the victory of evil is for good people to do nothing.

[blueninion]

You missed how the other child actors was basically brain washed and messed up by the show and Christof. Truman's best friend Marlon basically thought of truman as his real friend as a kid and only learned the truth later on. That's why he likely became an alcoholic because of his guilt.

[lalo-ktte]

Christof is such a good manipulator, you see in his mind how he justifies things and somehow nobody disagrees with him. We are shown that everyone is in on it but as soon as truman starts figuring things out people start freaking out and are trying to improvise. Shows how much christof was able to control much of the things he's done to Truman.

[aphylorne]

The worst part about Christof's villainy is that even though Truman was able to escape, he may end up unable to trust people after living a lie his whole life.

[skippyopolous]

Truman: "Who are you?"
Christoff: "I am The Creator...of a television show..."
He absolutely sees himself as a God figure who would rather destroy his creation than see it not need him anymore. Hell, his name is even Christ-off lol

[carsongudz]

Even more sick; he wanted Truman and a love interest to conceive and give him another prop/prisoner for another

[BLK_MN]

That was a seriously dark closing statement lol.

“Oh yeah, Cristoff was evil, but he had plenty of help and support”

[marcuso.]

I always found this movie to be exceptionally horrifying. Every aspect of Truman's life was fabricated to such a twisted degree that it all just came across as a horror movie to me. Maybe that was the intention.

[idkanymore]

Bro Trumans life is truly nightmarish once you realize he will spend the rest of his life wondering if he ever really left the show
Like even if he escapes, sues the company, all of that, marries the girl, lives with them, has support to help him cope, hes always and FOREVER going to wonder if the cameras are really off of him

That's the real horror. Realizing that his entire understanding of truth is non-existent. He will always wonder if he is still on camera

[val.s]

The moment he said he was born on camera and he will die on camera when truman was attempting to sail away just showed chistof's true intentions and views regarding truman.

[PrestonSikes]

This is one of my favorite villains in cinema. He sees Truman seemingly as a prop in the show, of no greater importance than the vending machine Truman's fake friend stocks. He's the perfect example of what a director with no oversight will do

[taliamason]

For some reason Christof reminds me of that pretentious Director in Bolt that is obsessed so much with making sure that Bolt isn't remotely aware that he is in an action TV show that he literally says "if the dog believes it, the audience believes it".

[geordiejones]

This is lowkey one of the best movies ever. Its so relevant today and is pretty accurate to how far the entertainment industry is willing to go to keep the wheels turning.

[nicklager]

You could easily do the voice over for Christof if ther ever were an animated version of Truman show. Your voice have similair traits to the one that Harris has in the feature.

[Eli_Guy]

I still remember Truman's "Is that the best you can do?! Youre going to have to KILL MEEEE!"
Christof did that poor child no favors

[destructor]

If I learned my life was a TV show I would probably phone it in until the show was cancelled out of sheer spite.

[CoachK]

The irony of Christof valuing privacy while wanting to exploit Truman’s every moment is incredible. At times, you wonder if Christof’s fear to be himself is vicariously lived through Truman in the same way that a parent wants their child to live their dreams. Truman’s courage is exemplary though, as most of us as humans don’t have the courage to accept the lies of our life, let alone to venture into the unknown. In the end, he does accomplish his childhood dream. He’s willing to leave the staged experience and explore a life of truth that most of us can only fathom. Phenomenal movie and incredible review.

[matthewhinkel]

My family lived about 15 minutes away from Seaside while the movie was filmed, we had been going there about every other weekend for several years at that point. I remember briefly meeting Jim Carrey one time. Made my little 11 year old mind just about explode. Good times.