Episode 144: The Truman Show
Beyond the Screenplay
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The Power of Love
The movie could work perfectly fine if he was just totally in love with his life until something happened that sort of like triggered, you know, his desire to kind of figure this out. But for the theme, I just like it better that he that he's not actually happy here. He is restless. He wants to get out. Yeah. And I think that's that's what makes this movie powerful on so many emotional levels that it's not just a sci fi about escaping reality. It's about escaping your aspects of your life that are holding your back or feeling fake or making not feel like a real person.
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