{"id":5831,"date":"2013-07-23T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:57:24","slug":"the-truman-show-is-a-true-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-truman-show-is-a-true-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truman Show is a true gem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A true gem. I think Peter Weir’s The Truman Show<\/em> is part of informal trilogy (with The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em> and Man On the Moon<\/em>) in which Jim Carrey<\/a> found a way to channel his manic energy and rubber-face-pulling into dramatic roles, in films that were not only populist, but also critically acclaimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, there are a few scenes in which it’s clear Weir wasn’t able to rein in Carrey’s more outr\u00e9 compulsions. Many interesting supporting characters (Noah Emmerich<\/a> as Truman’s lifelong ersatz pal, who nevertheless seems to have some genuine affection for him, and Laura Linney<\/a> as a decidedly more professional actor just doing a job) simply disappear from the film. It may not be perfect, but it builds to a very moving emotional wallop at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A true gem. I think Peter Weir’s The Truman Show is part of informal trilogy (with The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Man On the Moon) in which Jim Carrey found a way to channel his manic energy and rubber-face-pulling into dramatic roles, in films that were not only populist, but also critically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1717,1989,1082,315,1990],"class_list":["post-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-stars","category-movies","tag-1717","tag-jim-carrey","tag-laura-linney","tag-noah-emmerich","tag-peter-weir"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/truman-show.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-1w3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":813,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-savages\/","url_meta":{"origin":5831,"position":0},"title":"Who abandoned whom in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages?","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"May 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Savages is the story of a fractured family, separated not least by geography, that reunites on the occasion of an aged parent's health. 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