第一篇：《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.

第二篇：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

第三篇：《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.

第四篇：楚門的世界英文影評

西北民族大學全校性選修課期末考試

《英美影視作品欣賞》試卷

專業:金 融 學課程代碼 :

名: 學號:姓10990009湯 玲 利

得分:上課時間：星期三第五、六節

《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

《楚門的世界》影評

姓名：董東磊

學號：

學院：航海學院

《楚門的世界》影評

《楚門的世界》是我“上法律與電影”課上第一次看的電影，感覺挺好看的，電影又叫《真人秀》，《真人世界》，這種電影的題材和其他電影不一樣，這是一個活生生的人的真實世界，而他身邊的人都是演員，只有他一個人是真的，這種類型的電影我也是第一次看。

這部電影說的是一個龐大的電影公司領養了一個嬰兒，在他的身邊安插了無數的攝影機，讓他從小在一個巨大的攝影棚里長大而自己卻不知。這個嬰兒就是楚門，一個電視長劇的主角，他的一生都被攝影機記錄下來，在全球220個國家 24小時滾動播出，整個電視中間沒有廣告，一秒不停歇。本來一切都在天才導演克里斯托的掌握之中，但忽然有一天，曾經飾演楚門已過世父親的演員的再度出現，改變了一切，它讓楚門發現了這個騙局并離開了這個謊言。

在此影片中，色調最開始以明亮的基調為主，但在楚門開始懷疑自己的人生后，影片的畫面就開始主要以較暗或者黑暗的基調為主。然后攝影機的拍攝角度有著很多的不同，有的是固定在某個地方的，比如楚門家里的時鐘攝影機、前院攝影機、廁所鏡子中隱藏的攝影機、楚門車上隱藏的攝影機和楚門在嬰孩時代懸掛在他上方的攝影機；有的是佩戴在人身上的針孔攝影機，這種攝影機的角度一般會跟隨著楚門；還有海上的懸浮攝影機等。只要在畫面的四周有著圓形的黑色邊緣時，就證明，這是在對楚門進行偷拍。它們有的會隨著楚門的動而動，有的則不會動。這種鏡頭的記錄方式很奇怪也很神奇，因為一般拍攝電影所記錄的故事都要靠攝像機的鏡頭把畫面收納進去，但是我們在看的時候并不會想到我們的角度與鏡頭是在同一個角度，然而，在觀看楚門的世界的時候，我就會感覺似乎是我拿著一臺攝像機在對楚門進行拍攝。

從影片的開頭我們可以看得出，長劇《楚門的世界》已經記錄了楚門30年的人生，但是影片一開頭就是從楚門的第三十個年頭開始的。雖然我們并沒有看到楚門前三十年在鏡頭中的樣子，不過影片在中段有穿插了幾個片段，分別是楚門在上學時暗戀一個女孩子、楚門在年幼的時代父親喪生于大海、楚門嬰孩時代抬頭懸望記錄下他點滴的攝像機，還有一些一閃而過的小片段。

雖然我們都沒有完整的從楚門的小時候觀看到楚門的三十歲生活，但是我們卻能通過一點小小的片段及幾句簡單而又重要的臺詞清楚的明白三十年間在楚門的世界里都發生了什么事。《楚門的世界》以其不可抗拒的吸引力把我帶入了它的世界。這部電影，充斥著太多元素，虛假與真實，美好與殘酷，刺激與平淡，荒誕與驚奇。當我在觀看電影的時候，是以欣賞的角度，人在戲外。但是結束電影，走入真正的生活中，突然發現，其實，人在戲中。電影中的桃源作為戲中導演的拍攝基地，其實也是一個壓縮后的社會組織基地，這里面有著小人物的悲歡離合，存在著各種人物沖突，而電影中體現的價值觀念也是一種非常典型的組織價值問題。

楚門從剛開始出生，就注定了無法選擇自己的命運，就像是一個玩偶一樣被人操縱著，成為他真人紀錄片的男主角，巨大商業利益的創造者。世界上的17億人見證著他的成長，他生活中的一切都是虛假的。他的妻子，最好的朋友馬克，朝夕相處的同事等等，每個人都是演員，都圍繞著他這個唯一的主角。不僅如此，就連藍天，雷電，每天升起的太陽，都是那么不可思議的用一些高新技術手段制造出來的，還有身邊的一切事物都是廣告產品，都那么商業化，當然，最悲劇的是，他整個人就已經被導演商業化了。但是，這一切他還沒有意識到，直到死而復生的父親偷偷潛回片場，這個導火索讓他的生活起了變化。他慢慢地發現自己像被人密切關注著，自己的一舉一動都被人掌控著，身邊的事物和人都是在接連不斷的重復，身邊的一切故事和情節都是預先設定的。這讓他對自己的生活起疑，他向身邊人求證，卻得不到任何答案。當然，他的心中一直有一個目的地，斐濟。這是他的初戀女友施維亞的所在地。施維亞當初善意的提醒并沒有給楚門的世界作出根本改變，但是，卻給了楚門一個希望，一個尋找自由的，尋找真實世界的希望。可是，他最終發現，他終究無法逃離桃源，任何的交通工具對他來說都是行不通的，周圍的一切信息都在阻止他離開，更可怕的是，他一直無法戰勝自己心靈里的恐懼。最后，父親的一場鬧劇被導演完美的解決了。

當所有人都認為楚門會回歸到導演為他安排的生活中時，楚門卻悄悄離開了，他想找尋這場鬧劇的源頭，他想重回自由，他想突破自己，想擁有一個真實的世界。終于，當他獨自駕著一艘小船在海上航行時，導演基斯督用幾乎瘋狂的方式讓他留下，但是海面上的狂風暴雨阻擋不了他的決心，他終究在與基斯督的博斗中取得了第一階段的勝利，然而，當他駕駛的小船戳破海平面上的藍天時，在他不愿意伸出手去觸摸藍天的那一刻，楚門才真正的發現，他所在的世界是虛假的，除了他自己。當時的他痛苦萬分，沮喪無比，但他還是依然的站了起來，甚至使基斯督通過空中對話方式說服他回到桃源，然而，楚門終究是向上帝罷工了，他依舊走向了的真實的世界，真實的生活。

電影中的楚門是不屈服的，是充滿挑戰精神的。當他意識到自己所處的安逸和幸福的生活都是虛假的時候，他毅然決然選擇跳出這個囚籠，踏向一個未知的世界。所以這部電影是一個時代的隱喻，其實我們個人都是楚門這個角色內在的演繹。最讓我深思的，是這部片讓以真實人物的視角展現給觀眾的，而這更容易使觀眾產生共鳴，更重要的是它提出了一個很重要的組織社會問題，當你所處的世界背叛你時，當你擁有一個選擇的機會的時候，你是否會勇敢的踏出出口呢？生活在這樣一個社會大組織中，我們有時候也會發現自己被欺騙，被操縱，被利用，被愚弄。你身旁的友情，愛情，甚至親情都是虛假的。此時的我們是向現實妥協，繼續沉浸于謊言之中，把自己玩弄于鼓掌之間，甚至自娛自樂，在狂歡的瞬間，出賣我們的隱私，尊嚴甚至生命。還是，我們能勇敢一些，撕開這個虛偽的世界，用真實的自己創造一個真實的世界。

楚門只是一個很平凡的人物，在他的身邊發生的一切事情都是一個平常的人會經歷的，沒有什么太大跌大落的起伏，或許正是因為他的平凡，人們才更愿意去接受他，因為他更貼近平凡人的生活。但是，相反，他卻又是不平凡的，雖然他正常的成長著，但他身邊的一切，包括他本人，都是被安排了的。從出生，到學走路，到失去父親，到初戀，到結婚，甚至如果不出意外，到他生子老去死亡，這一切的一切都在天才導演克里斯托的掌控之中。幸好在最后的最后，楚門終于找到了真相，并勇敢地走向了門外的世界。

我很佩服楚門的勇氣，因為對他來說，門外是他從未接觸過的世界，他對外面一無所知，并不是每一個人都能拿出勇氣走出去的。在影片的最后，所有的觀眾都為他的抉擇感到無比的開心，雖然他們即將失去一個楚門，但是他們心中卻多了一份楚門的勇敢為他們帶來了啟發，他們三十年來觀看《楚門的世界》總算

沒有白白浪費時間。在我們生活中，楚門這樣的事情可能是不存在的，但類似的人卻絕對有，比如從小就被家長固定了生活模式的可憐孩子、又如為了家庭每天做著同樣重復的事情的家庭主婦，他們都可以有楚門的精神，勇敢的去沖破被束縛的一切，發現一個屬于自己的人生，過屬于自己的人生，并讓它精彩無限。世界上如果有什么你懷疑的，那就去證實，下定決心，就請像楚門一樣勇敢的踏出那扇門，不要向現實妥協。活在真實的世界，做真實的自己。