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who remembers The Truman Show
Princess Emily
everybody?
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I caught a bit of it earlier and thought about it for the first time in years
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and man
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that movie is super weird and fucked up
Niamh Vibes
doesn't it predate reality tv
Vehrec
Super fucked up
Rama
It's the most underrated film in Jim Carrey's entire career tbh
Yuff
my favorite Jim Carrey movie tbh
Hazard Kitten
yeah, it predated modern reality TV
Hazard Kitten
and gave name to a very specific type of paranoid delusion
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like
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as a major, repeatedly acknowledged part of thte premise of the show, which is well known to people in universe who watch the show
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the producers orchestrated a traumatic childhood event
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to give the child a crippling phobia he carries for decades
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in order to make sure he doesn't escape from the fake nightmare world the secretly trapped him in
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so that they can get sponsor money
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that Truman doesn't see a penny of
Hazard Kitten
also a perfect demonstration of the amorality of late stage capitalism
Vehrec
but how can this show make enough money to justify the construction of an entire town and the employment of it's entire population...probably shouldn't think about that.
sailor bii
god, it's such a great movie
sailor bii
i rewatched it last year
Hazard Kitten
people will work for free if it means exposure
Hazard Kitten
especially the struggling actors who hope a stint as a neighbor on this show will pad out their CVs for careers
Princess Emily
they probably cut a deal with the county to fund the building of the set too
A Grinning DM
Sorry to nitpick but Truman show does not predate modern reality TV depending on your definition of modern.
Princess Emily
like how amazon is doing
Princess Emily
with all of their shit
A Grinning DM
MTV's Real World had definitely been out a while when Truman Show came out
Quinn Angstrom
a "stint" as Truman's neighbor is like a decade-long commitment working 168 hours a week
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My first thought was the ethics of the actor who played Truman's wife
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the thought I remember having even back at the time was like
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"the whole gimmick is that they've never, ever had any downtime on watching truman"
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"and Truman has a kid"
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"so like"
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"did that part air on TV"
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Like also more basically what do they do when Truman takes a shit or something
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Truman didn’t have a kid, but the creator was pushing for it to happen
Love Snake Kaja
I really liked that movie