Lars Redoubt
January 8th, 2004, 11:01 AM
The Truman Show is an allegory of the White Mans Plight.
Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank, a nice and friendly White Man who is deceived by everybody, even his wife. The whole world has joined forces to keep him forever a slave. He must not in any way be allowed to question the role he's been given. Above all he must not be allowed to leave the island of Seahaven. And when he tries his wife, family, friends, co-workers, everybody, hunts him like a fox.
The key scenes for understanding this film comes in the middle when the director Christof (Christianity) is interviewed in a TV-show. Here are some of the revealing scenes:
In a flashback we see Truman as a kid in school. He says: "I like to be an explorer, like the great Magellan."
The jewish-looking teacher: "Oh, you're to late, there's really nothing left to explore."
Then the interviewer asks Christof of the economic impact of the show: "The show has generated enormous revenues - up to the gross national product of a small country."
Christof: "People forget that it takes the population of a entire country to keep the show running." This country, or rather nation, consists of cirka 14 million people, spread all over the world, many of them working in the TV- and movie-industry. (To keep the show running = to keep the White Man working, and by his productivity supporting the jews.)
Interviewer: "Why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?"
Christof: "We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that." Just after he has said that we see two white men, apparently not too bright, nodding in agreement.
The Truman Show is of course a Hollywood production and as kosher as everything else that comes from there. But still it gives a small glimpse of hope. It comes from Trumans lost girlfriend. She gets a chance to talk to Christof over telephone during his TV-interview. She says: "He's not a performer, he's a prisoner, look at him, look at what you done to him."
Christof: "He could leave at any time, if it was more than just a vague ambition. If he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way that we could prevent him."
Christof: "I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it."
Trumans lost girlfriend: "That's where you wrong, your'e so wrong, and he'll prove you're wrong."
He does. In the end Truman breaks out of his cell. That's a real paradoxical ending, coming from Hollywood. I think this film is of the same kind as "They Live". It is a "revelation of the method", as Eric Thomson calls it. By revealing for the White Man that he is a slave, and he still does nothing about it, the sin passes from the perpetrator to the victim.
Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank, a nice and friendly White Man who is deceived by everybody, even his wife. The whole world has joined forces to keep him forever a slave. He must not in any way be allowed to question the role he's been given. Above all he must not be allowed to leave the island of Seahaven. And when he tries his wife, family, friends, co-workers, everybody, hunts him like a fox.
The key scenes for understanding this film comes in the middle when the director Christof (Christianity) is interviewed in a TV-show. Here are some of the revealing scenes:
In a flashback we see Truman as a kid in school. He says: "I like to be an explorer, like the great Magellan."
The jewish-looking teacher: "Oh, you're to late, there's really nothing left to explore."
Then the interviewer asks Christof of the economic impact of the show: "The show has generated enormous revenues - up to the gross national product of a small country."
Christof: "People forget that it takes the population of a entire country to keep the show running." This country, or rather nation, consists of cirka 14 million people, spread all over the world, many of them working in the TV- and movie-industry. (To keep the show running = to keep the White Man working, and by his productivity supporting the jews.)
Interviewer: "Why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?"
Christof: "We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that." Just after he has said that we see two white men, apparently not too bright, nodding in agreement.
The Truman Show is of course a Hollywood production and as kosher as everything else that comes from there. But still it gives a small glimpse of hope. It comes from Trumans lost girlfriend. She gets a chance to talk to Christof over telephone during his TV-interview. She says: "He's not a performer, he's a prisoner, look at him, look at what you done to him."
Christof: "He could leave at any time, if it was more than just a vague ambition. If he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way that we could prevent him."
Christof: "I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it."
Trumans lost girlfriend: "That's where you wrong, your'e so wrong, and he'll prove you're wrong."
He does. In the end Truman breaks out of his cell. That's a real paradoxical ending, coming from Hollywood. I think this film is of the same kind as "They Live". It is a "revelation of the method", as Eric Thomson calls it. By revealing for the White Man that he is a slave, and he still does nothing about it, the sin passes from the perpetrator to the victim.