The Truman Show
A 1998 film in which Jim Carrey plays a man who discovers his entire life has been a television show, with actors playing his family and friends while hidden cameras broadcast his every moment.
The title has become shorthand for paranoid feelings that one's life is being observed or manipulated: Sometimes this city feels like my own personal Truman Show.
Motion picture theater
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- directorOne who leads
- soundtrackMusic accompanying visual media
Jim Carrey · Ed Harris · Laura Linney · cinematography · satire · dramedy · set design · premiere
Intentional misleading of others
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- artificeClever deceptive strategy
- fakeryDeliberate deception or pretense
- charadeAbsurd or obvious pretense
constructed · simulacrum · staged · scripted · manipulation · pretense · unreality · make-believe
Broadcast viewing device
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- ratingsEvaluative scores assigned
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
- networkInterconnected system
producer · advertising · viewers · entertainment · spectacle · consumption · celebrity · exploitation
Actively looking at something
- camerasVisual recording devices
- observationAttentive watching or remark
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
- voyeurismErotic observation without consent
privacy · control · omniscient · hidden · scrutiny · intrusion · dome · backstage
cinema
Motion picture theater
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- directorOne who leads
Jim Carrey · Ed Harris · Laura Linney · soundtrack · cinematography · satire · dramedy · set design · premiere · critics
deception
Intentional misleading of others
- facadeDeceptive outward appearance
- artificeClever deceptive strategy
- fakeryDeliberate deception or pretense
charade · constructed · simulacrum · staged · scripted · manipulation · pretense · unreality · make-believe · false
television
Broadcast viewing device
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- ratingsEvaluative scores assigned
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
network · producer · advertising · viewers · entertainment · spectacle · consumption · celebrity · exploitation · showrunner
watching
Actively looking at something
- camerasVisual recording devices
- observationAttentive watching or remark
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
voyeurism · privacy · control · omniscient · hidden · scrutiny · intrusion · dome · backstage · producers
authenticity
Quality of being genuine
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- discoveryAct of finding something
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
existence · genuine · freedom · escape · realization · questioning · doubt · glitch · cracks · suspicion
- moviesblockbuster, film, Titanic, films, Jurassic Park
- Paramount FilmsThe Godfather, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Top Gun, Grease
- 1998Titanic, Godzilla, Armageddon, Saving Private Ryan, Google
- DramediesBoJack Horseman, Barry, Atlanta, The Bear, Orange Is the New Black
- satirelampoon, parody, parody account, political satire, spoof
- Sea MoviesMaster and Commander, The Perfect Storm, Das Boot, Titanic, Captain Phillips
The Truman Showdocumentary
Factual film about reality
cinéma vérité · Wild · truth
The Truman Showoff the grid
Independent of infrastructure
anonymity · privacy · Walden · media blackout · disconnection
Truman, show, shows, showed, shown, showing, showy, showman, showmanship