#The Truman show

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[podoro-vines]

[oc] THE SUNNY SHOW 🌻📺

[thestuffedalligator]

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

[carricfisher]

The Truman Show dir. Peter Weir | 1998

[bahrlee]

I love the ending to the Truman show like "we don't see what happens after he goes through the door because it's none of our business" like yes yes YESSS I love you Truman show

[watermelonbuns]

Truman show ref 😲

Inspo from podoro_vines on tickle toc

I could not decide if paper texture or nah

[davespritevstheworld]

breathe it in

[ayo-edebiri]

Barbie (2023) // The Truman Show (1998) (insp)

[macbethz]

suburbia; or the sad, quiet horror of getting everything you ever wanted

"No Surprises," Radiohead // Safe (1995) // Kingdom Come, J.G. Ballard // Blue Velvet (1986) // "Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads // Little Shop of Horrors (1986) // Jon Ware on I Am In Eskew // Vivarium (2019) // "His 'n' Hers," Pulp // The Truman Show (1998) // White Noise, Don DeLillo // Supergod, Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny // 17776, Jon Bois // photograph of 1970s Las Vegas underground Cold War bunker // Disco Elysium, ZA/UM

[dailyflicks]

THE TRUMAN SHOW 1998, dir. Peter Weir

[ferrisbuellers]

#how influencers act THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) dir. Peter Weir

[deepseasecret]

good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!

Bonus Maruki:

[dollygale]

can you imagine if the actors in the truman show universe went on strike. you know they’d be drawing straws for who got to tell him

[mahoshonensuicidehotline]

THANKS FOR PLAYING.

[everyframeapainting1991]

This iconic shot from "The Truman Show" captures the moment when Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey, realizes the truth and seeks to escape. In the scene, Truman ascends a staircase that appears to lead to the sky, only to discover that it leads to a wall painted to look like the sky. This symbolizes the boundary of the artificial world in which he has unknowingly been trapped. The scene represents Truman's journey toward self-awareness and his decision to break free from the constructed reality of the television show that has controlled his life since birth. This shot captures the film's theme of free will versus control, and it stands out as one of the most powerful moments in the film.

[sardonycal]

in case i dont see ya— good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

variant featuring alan :")