第一篇：楚門的世界英文影評

Life is starting to imitate satire.“The Truman Show” was only made seven years ago, but it predates the current mania for so-called “reality” television shows such as “Big Brother”.The idea behind such shows is that they present the viewer with a slice of actual reality-real people in real situations with real emotions-rather than the simulated reality of drama or the edited reality of documentaries.The flaw in this idea is that nothing is more unreal than a reality show.The presence of the cameras has a distorting effect, inducing artificial behaviour patterns in those who appear in front of it, and the sort of people who star in such programmes are almost invariably eccentric exhibitionists.“The Truman Show” takes the central concept of reality TV shows one stage further in order to overcome this flaw: what would happen if we made a reality programme about a person who has absolutely no idea that he is appearing on television? Truman Burbank is an insurance executive, living in a small American seaside town called Seahaven, and happily married to a nurse named Meryl.Or at least he thinks he is.What Truman doesn't know is that he is the central character in a soap opera and that his whole life is a fiction.The company he works for does not exist.Seahaven, the island it stands on and the surrounding ocean are all part of a gigantic set, specially created for the programme and sealed off from the outside world in a gigantic geodesic dome.Everyone in Truman's life-Meryl, his mother, his colleagues at work, his best friend Marlon-are actors playing out their roles in his drama.For thirty years Truman has accepted his world unquestioningly, but at the beginning of the film a series of incidents-a light falling from the sky, the reappearance of his father, who was supposed to have drowned in a boating accident when Truman was a boy, strange messages picked up on his car radio-awaken his doubts.Although members of the cast make strenuous attempts to dissuade him, he decides to try and explore the world outside Seahaven;in particular he wants to travel to Fiji where he has been told that his former girlfriend Sylvia now lives.(Sylvia was written out of the show when the scriptwriters decided that he should marry Meryl instead).The film has certain similarities with another film from the late nineties, “Pleasantville”, which dealt with an inverted version of the same idea;two teenagers from the real world are magically transported into the world of a fifties television show.In my view, however, “The Truman Show” is the better of the two.“Pleasantville” deals with its political themes in a heavy-handed way with some very obvious symbolism.“The Truman Show”, although it deals with some weighty issues, is never ponderous or excessively serious;indeed, it is often very humorous.The main source of humour is the contrast between the na?ve, trusting Truman and the behaviour of those around him, all living a lie and desperately trying to prevent Truman from finding out that it is a lie.I had previously thought of Jim Carrey as a rather annoying actor whose appeal was based upon the idea that manic overacting is in itself funny, but here as Truman he is very good indeed, both amusing and touching.I was also impressed by Ed Harris as Christof, the show's enigmatic producer.Another factor in the success of the film is its visual look.Seahaven(like the town in “Pleasantville”)appears as an eerily perfect, not-quite-real version of the typical American small town, but was actually filmed in a real place, the purpose-built village of Seaside, Florida.There are similarities with the cult British sixties television series “The Prisoner”, which was also filmed in an eerily perfect seaside village, Portmeirion in North Wales.Critics have been lavishing enormous praise on this movie since it opened in America last June, and probably rightly so because it is a superbly crafted piece of work.Weir's direction is outstanding, frequently viewing events from the point of view of hidden spy cameras, such as the one in Truman's car radio.One stunning shot has the town's main street full of motionless extras, waiting for Truman to turn the corner.Jim Carrey's performance has been singled out for particular praise, and though his acting is of a much higher standard that his usual comedy antics, it is not exactly Laurence Olivier.This said, an Oscar nomination would have been well deserved.The film is obviously a satire on the intrusiveness and obsession with celebrity of the modern media;added relevance was given by the fact that it came out shortly after the death of Princess Diana.There is, however, more to it than that.Much has been made of the film as religious allegory;it has been pointed out that Christof whose name is clearly, and quite deliberately, similar to “Christ”, is a God-figure, whereas Truman(the “True Man”)is a symbolic Everyman.It has even been claimed that the film is an anti-religious allegory, with Truman's final escape from Seahaven symbolic of man's need to break away from outdated religious dogmas.This is not an interpretation with which I would agree-if one is trying to put across a “God is dead” message, it seems odd to provide a God-figure who is very much real, not mythical or illusory.The imagery of the final scenes – the calm after the storm, the ascent up a flight of stairs into the sky and clouds-also struck me as religious rather than secular.Moreover, the film seems too complex to be reduced to any single allegorical meaning, although it certainly deals with the relationship between man and God.It also touches on man's need to explore-both to explore new places and also to explore new ideas and to break away from established ways of life and ways of thought-and on the nature of reality.Truman's world may seem unreal to us, but as Christof says, “we accept the reality we are presented with”.This is a brilliant, multi-layered film, part comedy, part satire, part philosophical speculation, and in my view one of the two best movies of the late nineties.(The other was “American Beauty”).I felt it should have taken the “Best Picture” Oscar for 1999-“Shakespeare in Love” is a good film, but “The Truman Show” is a great one.It confirms my view that Peter Weir is one of the best directors currently working

第二篇：《楚門的世界》英文影評

Movie Review of the Truman Show

Born as a TV star, Truman is living in a small island called Seahaven for the first half of his life.But he doesn’t know that everyone and everything happened around him is fake.Nor dose he know that the place he lives for so many years is actually a huge studio.With the plot spreading, Truman gradually realizes that there is something wrong with his life;It seems that everybody and everything is focused on him.Leading by his dream, he managed to get out;leaving the world that was created for him and went to that unknown outside, dark and dangerous.Freedom is an eternal topic in western movies and is also very important for all of us.How can a people live without freedom and privacy? I see that Truman lives in such an amazing environment that everybody in the world can see him and there is no privacy for him at all.But after he finds that he is living in a fictitious world, he makes up his mind to leave the studio to live a life that belongs to him.To get the girl he loves and his freedom back, he overcomes his psychological barrier and fights with the storms and lightening made by the chief conductor of the movie---the Truman Show.Finally, Truman makes it and get out of the fictitious world although he knows that there maybe many unknown obstacles waiting for him.This is the power of freedom and love.Another thing I’d like to mention is that when reporters ask why Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world

until now, and then the answer is that we accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.I was shocked when I heard this.In our daily life, we get used to what is happening around us so we never ask why this just happens.Although we live our lives everyday, life itself is the thing easiest forgotten by us.If we pay more attention to our life, we may find that there are so many things for us to do to enhance our life.We are usually getting numb with time going by.So be curious about the things happened in our life and you may find that life is interesting and happy.Cherishing your life and enjoying your life, you can make a big difference.

第三篇：《楚門的世界》英文影評

My thought about Truman

All the people can know about Truman, such as his life.For 10,909 days, it has been on the air, using more than 5000 cameras to show every moment in every day of the life of him.But unfortunately, it is he that didn’t know.Around the world, everyday there were millions of people watching his life which had already been set.I thought it may be terribly sorrowful of him to accept such a truth.Thus he got mad, and nothing can hold back his heart for freedom.We know his name is Truman, which stands for truth.But his life is full of falsehood.No one told him that until he finally got it.The director said, the life in the island is the truth.Truman used his action to prove it a lie, a total lie.Freedom is the thing that exceeds everything in the world, nothing can be in place of it.Of course, if he chose to live in the island, he can be original pop star, he can get many things comfortably.Yet as a bird, we choose to fly in the sky.As a man, we also need to our own sky.The movie might tell us this moral.Although Truman was born to be a man losing freedom, he was still a man.His option is himself, not making fun of others.The ending of movie, audiences were touched by his perseverance, and then switch the TV channel.It’s so ironical about their behaviors.However, the society is just this look.So what we should do is to pursue our own bliss.If Truman gave up himself, the god will also abandon him.We are what we do, and we need our freedom and perseverance.

第四篇：楚門的世界英文影評

西北民族大學(xué)全校性選修課期末考試

《英美影視作品欣賞》試卷

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名: 學(xué)號:姓10990009湯 玲 利

得分:上課時間：星期三第五、六節(jié)

《楚門的世界》英文影評

Movie Review of

The Truman show was really a very good movie, we can learn some truths from it, the lively perform and the touching story let us moving, I feel very happy about at last Truman run out the ‘truth’ world by other make, in spite of other attitude and choose his life.Born as a TV star, Truman is imprisoned in a small island called Seahaven for the first half of his life.Of course Truman don’t know he is a star, at first we all think Truman was a man, ordinary, like the life around us, he has many desires and very easy to meet, he has work、wife、parents、friend and so on, live a normal life, everything look normal, but with the develop of the plot, we know everything is arranged, his work、wife、parents and everybody around him are all actor, when we know it , all the audiences care about him ,Truman start to find his friends, his wife and everybody, everything are focus on him, And at last, he finally realized that there was something wrong with the world he lived in.Leading by his dream, he managed to get out, leaving the world that was created for him and went to that unknown outside, dark and dangerous.Audience see the Truman’s ‘truth’ live, the director aim to attract the audience’s eye, when Truman happy he would give him time to create some trouble, when in its depressed, then size the opportunity to open it alive.The most moving is the end of the movie, Truman is awake, and he told the camera, really the ‘God’ strike played out.Panic talented director, he will lose the audience, he strove to retain Truman, the director told him to leave the control of the world is very dangerous, but Truman was out of the door, walks over to the dark unknown world, he said that the world waiting for him no matter what, he did not care, Buddhism, the ‘epiphany’ one said, and that a complete self-sufficiency of human nature is dead in the dust covering it, it lost, Truman is the insight it seems, he should get back the lost self, the self-contained complete and carefree nature.The audiences are cry, they feel very happy just because Truman , He get truth life with his struggle, no matter how the world was, the importance is that he choose his life , he decide his friends、wife and so on about himself, no one can make Truman’s life.Not only the story was very good, but also the dialogue was worth to remember, such as first, Good morning, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

Second, I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life.The world, the place you live in, is the sick place.Third, I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life.The world, the place you live in, is the sick place, of course these only part of the wonderful dialogue, but I very like these dialogue.We can learn some thing from the movie, actually life is like a show, no matter in virtual world or fact life , we all play role in different part, we all should bravery in the fact of new life, new challenge, we should let us life become funny and live a meaning life.Weather we may give up something or not, I think life should make by you, no one can do it except you, I hope everybody can do it.

第五篇：楚門的世界影評

由楚門想到的十一期間沒有和朋友一起走進電影院，看什么激動人心的大片，而是一個人躲在家里，同樣手捧爆米花，欣賞了由政治老師推薦的，蘊含著一定哲學(xué)思想的，一部有內(nèi)涵的電影——金·凱瑞主演，著名導(dǎo)演彼得·威爾的超現(xiàn)實影片，黑色喜劇《楚門的世界》，(“The Truman Show”)

這部電影講述了這樣一個故事：一個平凡的小人物在自己毫不知情的情況下被制造成聞名的電視明星，前半生一直生活在一個攝影棚中！“籠中鳥”楚門每天生活的一切都是被制造出來的：金發(fā)女郎如言情小說般突然出現(xiàn)在楚門的視線中，開啟他愛欲的閥門，又讓她突然離去，使其心靈墜入無底的深淵；他讓楚門從未謀面的“已故父親”突然現(xiàn)身；包括空氣、大海、城市、打雷和下雨??完全被剝奪了自由、隱私乃至尊嚴，成為大眾娛樂工業(yè)的犧牲品。在他自己發(fā)現(xiàn)這一切之后，他努力掙脫，終于勇敢地邁出了離開攝影棚的這一步。一口氣看完這部影片，手心里全是冷汗。本能的，我問自己——我的生活也想楚門一樣的普通，那我會不會也生活在一個巨大的攝影棚之中呢？

冷靜下來想一想，這部影片其實就是一部現(xiàn)實背景下的《俄狄浦斯王》，金·凱瑞為我們詮釋了一個終生被人擺布、遭人愚弄的普通人典型，他可以說是另一個俄狄浦斯。電影中那位天才導(dǎo)演就是預(yù)言的上帝，他時刻掌握了事情發(fā)展的主動權(quán)。楚門被命運愚弄，但對生活和前途仍充滿了樂觀，我不想承認卻又不得不承認——我身上有楚門的影子。這樣一則荒誕無稽的人生寓言，這樣一部顛覆人們世界觀電影，這樣一個激勵人心、發(fā)人省思的黑色喜劇，對惟利是圖、踐踏人權(quán)的社會現(xiàn)象進行了強烈諷刺。如果“人生如戲，戲如人生”是真的。我，是不是在上帝的欺瞞和安排下，一直忘我地做著無意義的事呢？我一直堅信的人品守恒定律是不是某位導(dǎo)演掌握著很好的度，有時給我當頭一棒，有時又讓我覺得世界充滿愛？使我在痛苦中保持希望，在希望中忍受痛苦呢？而我所生活的世界，究竟是不是一個病態(tài)的世界呢？

如果我是這樣一場真人秀的主人公，沒有隱私，一切都大白于天下，人性赤裸裸展現(xiàn)于世界觀眾面前，被蒙在鼓里，長達30年之久，在被技術(shù)手段編碼的過程中，過著被設(shè)計的人生，毫無懸念，走著規(guī)定的程序，命運的不確定性被完全排除，不再是前途未卜，不再有任何干擾。當我有一天發(fā)現(xiàn)這一切的時候，我會不會邁出這個世界，走向未知？

影片中的楚門選擇邁出這一步，以此表達了對技術(shù)理性制造出來的虛假世界的否定，仿佛在向我們傳達這樣一個信念：要在真實世界里生活！因為它真實，雖然似乎同樣受制于某種不可抗拒的力量，然而它不是來自于人為的技術(shù)手段，不是人工制造，而是來自不可名狀、不可預(yù)知的命運安排，正因為不可預(yù)知，人生才如此充滿魅力。而我呢，不一定。我相信縱使命運被擺布是悲哀的，但當我思考過自己的人生之后，我對我自己的人生是滿意的，我會繼續(xù)當自己世界中的主角。

也許當全世界都瘋了而我唯一清醒的時候，我會覺得自己其實才是瘋子！

楚門是我們創(chuàng)造的楚門，我們又是誰的楚門？