#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"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[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.

#the truman show #i’m sure this is a point that’s been made before #by people more clever than me #but goddammit this interests me #10k #20k #30k

[ayo-edebiri]

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

#barbie #barbie movie #the truman show #filmedit #byaurore #userbbelcher #noalook #userallisyn #tusertyler #tusercarol #tusertha #userzo #userjasmine #userconstance #arthurpendragonns #nessa007 #tuserrobin #tuserrachel #tusercora #margot robbie #literally the same movie <3

[carricfisher]

The Truman Show dir. Peter Weir | 1998

#The Truman Show #thetrumanshowedit #filmedit #filmgifs #userteri #usertennant #tuserpris #henricavyll #usersugar #underbetelgeuse #userconstance #userveronika #userrlaura #jim carrey #*edit

[ferrisbuellers]

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

#thetrumanshowedit #the truman show #filmgifs #throwbackblr #userstream #moviegifs #cinematv #userbbelcher #fyeahmovies #usersavana #useraurore #tusercarol #tuserdana #userrobin #userlera #usersugar #usersameera #filmedit #*

[dailyflicks]

THE TRUMAN SHOW 1998, dir. Peter Weir

#* #the truman show #userraffa #usersavana #userlosthaven #userallisyn #usersaoirse #tusertha #useradie #useraurore #tusertyler #userpavlova #userveronika #userzo #1990s #sci fi #comedy #by el

[deepseasecret]

good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!

Bonus Maruki:

#shuake #persona 5 royal #p5 #the truman show #painting #sorry if this is cringe i rlly like this movie #akechi goro #amamiya ren #joker p5 #2/2

[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

#web weaving #lots of movies in this one can't help being a film student #also appreciate my sexy ass color gradient #i recommend all these media in full btw they all explore it more than i can demonstrate w a screencap #im sure im missing stuff. aaa. but this is long #web weave #radiohead #blue velvet #talking heads #little shop of horrors #vivarium #pulp #the truman show #supergod #disco elysium #i am in eskew #17776 #warlock wartalks

[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

#the truman show

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on memory and loss

Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War

#on memory #on loss #on remembering #web weaving #poetry compilation #haruki murakami #norwegian wood #call me by your name #luca guadagnino #ocean vuong #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #sea wolf #teh garden that you planted #vladimir nabokov #theodore roethke #straw for the fire #the truman show #peter weir #amal el mohtar #this is how you lose the time war #poem #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #words #dark academia poetry #dark academia quote #dark academia #writing #poetry

[toocooltobeforgotten]

#the truman show

[animentality]

#twitter #the truman show

[sci-fi-gifs]

You were real. That’s what made you so good to watch. THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) dir. Peter Weir

#* #sfgkumi #The Truman Show #peter weir #jim carrey #dramaedit #scifiedit #filmgifs #filmedit #userteri #usermichi #userlera #vivienvalentino

[mo-mode]

Literally No One:

Me: Do you think when Truman escaped The Truman Show and he saw the real moon for the first time, he was like "Huh it's a lot smaller than the one I grew up with," but then he noticed it changing after a few days so he brought it up like "Honey, the moon is getting skinnier. Is that normal?" and his girlfriend was like, "Yeah it does that. Don't worry about it," so Truman ignored it because he had bigger fish to fry (assimilating to the real world) until one day, it was just gone and he positively flipped his shit "GUYS SOMEONE STOLE THE MOON IT IS MISSING WE NEED TO ALERT THE MOON PROFESSIONALS ABOUT THIS HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SEE AT NIGHT WITHOUT MY MASSIVE NIGHT LIGHT" and then Lauren had to sit him down and explain the phases of the moon for an hour? Do you think he got really obsessed with the moon after that? Did he get a library card and check out all of the books he could find about the moon and the moon landing and moon rovers and space travel? Do you think he kept up with it after that by maybe following NASA's subscription newsletter to see if there are any updates on the moon? Could he tell the difference between a waxing and a waning crescent? Did it make him excited to see it during the day too sometimes? Does he miss it when it's too cloudy to see? Does looking at the moon at night help him cope with his newfound freedom because it proves he's not trapped on Seahaven Island anymore? Because not every day is the same like it was before? Because the world changes around him now instead of stopping when he leaves the room? Just like the moon will keep changing even if he can't see it? What's his opinion on werewolves?

#the truman show #love this movie #truman burbank #character analysis #i just think he deserves the world you know? #post canon #jim carrey #1990s #90s movies #nostalgia #movies #90s

[dailyflicks]

DAILYFLICKS 30K EVENT: FAVORITE 90s FILM PER MEMBER ↳ THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) — Mari (@gownegirl)

Good morning, and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!

#filmgifs #filmedit #moviegifs #fyeahmovies #useraurore #usersavana #userraffa #tusercarol #usergiles #userbru #tusertha #userallisyn #noalook #* #by mari #the truman show #drama #30kevent

[girlboyzone]

The Truman Show (1998) // Generation Loss: The Social Experiments (2023)

#something something meeting your maker something something #i’ve never done a gifset before but oughhh the genloss illness #generation loss #genloss #gen loss #the truman show #parallels #my gifs