‘You never had a camera in my head!’

Love this movie. Top 50 all time for me.

Here’s some reasons I love it:

- Love that it’s so much more than just a satire of media and television (which would have very quickly dated it), that it talks to so many profound, philosophical ideas within such an easy and beautiful framework.

- One moment that I really loved on this rewatch is when the bus ‘breaks down’ meaning Truman can’t leave - everyone gets off the bus, then the bus driver goes to leave, turns to Truman and says he’s sorry. All without once showing a shot of Truman. It’s only after all of that that we then see a wide of the empty bus, with Truman sitting alone up the back. I don’t know why it jumped out, but it just stood out as a really masterful and assured moment of editing and directorial decisions in post. 

- The other thing that really stuck out was how universal Truman’s story is. The way that his life seems to be slipping away from him, the way that he is manipulated by the same things that manipulate us all (work and mortgages and savings and having a baby and all that). 

- Also love that it’s light and funny, that it is technically a sci-fi but it doesn’t look or feel like one.

- Love and intrigued by the story beats not being played as twists.

- Also love that the exposition dump happens an hour in, such an interesting structural choice that works really well!

- Aussie director and NZ writer!