On the big screen, with the appearance of Truman, the background of the story began to be gradually revealed in front of people through the off-screen narration of the "Truman Show" program team.
He has attracted worldwide attention since his birth.
His daily life, captured by cameras everywhere, is broadcast live around the world 24 hours a day.
And this live broadcast time is as long as 3 years!
Everyone around him is an actor.
The entire town is like a huge studio. Even the sun, moon and sea water are artificial and controlled by machines.
His life has been guided by the "script".
When everyone in the audience understood the background of the story, a chill ran down their spines and their hearts trembled.
"Li Qing's imagination is really too big!"
"Genius script!"
“That’s what the trailer didn’t tell us!”
The most cruel thing is that those closest to Truman, including his wife and best friends, were all specially arranged by the director!
When his wife Lu Wanlei showed a patterned smile to the camera and recited skillful advertising slogans, all the viewers were in awe.
It can be said that it was director Chen Xindao who controlled the entire Truman life environment and emotional world.
Truman was completely unaware of all this, and lived like a doll for thirty years.
Of course, these thirty years were also peaceful and joyful. Just like the name of the small town, it has the meaning of "paradise" and utopia.
For a time, many viewers were envious of Truman's life.
However, no matter how beautiful the appearance is, it cannot conceal the false appearance of being "manipulated" and "directed".
When I think about sleeping, taking a bath and other private matters in front of the eyes of a global audience, the audience feels numb just by thinking about it.
Compared with the general audience, the professionals present, such as Liu Weilin, Yu Fenglin and other well-known directors and film critics, were applauded by everything presented in the film.
When Truman's wife would come up with "product placement" with an official smile on her face from time to time, Liu Weilin understood and smiled from ear to ear for a while.
As a commercial director, nothing interests him more than making money for his movies.
He also often does some advertising placements in his movies, but most of them are not eye-catching. The scene like Lu Wanlei holding up a box of kitchen utensils and reading advertising slogans to the camera made Liu Weilin immediately think of "irony". This is simply
It is a ruthless slap in the face of many commercial movies and reality shows today...
However, Liu Weilin smiled and then became quiet. He frowned and sat in the front row, watching the movie while looking like he was thinking.
The one with the same thoughtful expression as Liu Weilin was Bao Yunyun.
She looked at Truman on the screen and suddenly felt the same.
As a public figure, especially a star who has become very popular since her debut, Bao Yunyun has gained more fame, wealth and aura of support from thousands of people than more than 90% of the artists in the industry.
But what was lost was freedom.
Just like Truman in the movie, her life was actually monitored by countless cameras, and countless paparazzi reporters lurked in invisible corners of her, tracking and filming her for a long time.
Every move she makes will become a topic of conversation for everyone.
However, if you want to say how much everyone loves you, likes you, and pays more attention to your scandals, it actually doesn’t happen. It’s just that you happen to be very popular during this time period, so you can get into people’s sight.
And as more and more new stars emerge, you will slowly fade out of sight. In the end, even ghosts may not bother to pay attention to you.
This is how Bao Yunyun has felt in the past few years since her debut.
From the popularity of the first album, to the bottom of the second album, to the rapid rise of the third album, although it only took a few years, Bao Yunyun knew that she could be said to have tasted all the favors.
Warm and cold, sweet and sour.
By now, she has understood that she is just like a commodity. Commodities have no freedom and only have value.
Fortunately, this value also comes with her dream, which will not make her tired of this life and choose to retire from the world.
What's more important is that in the process of pursuing dreams, there is a group of friends working hard together. This way, you will not feel lonely while walking on this road.
The total duration of the movie "The Truman Show" is as long as 9 minutes, but after only half an hour, the whispers that were still there at the scene have all disappeared, leaving only pairs of bright eyes.
Time seemed to have stood still, and the entire screening room was silent, except for the sounds from the movie.
Soon, 9 minutes flashed by. When the movie ended, Truman opened the door to the sky and walked towards freedom. The show that had been live broadcasting for more than 30 years ended here.
When the two police officers outside the TV were eating potato chips and saying, "I'm so touched! Quickly change the channel and see if there are any other programs," the audience suddenly booed.
These boos contain various meanings.
How deeply do you think the audience loves The Truman? How emotionally attached to the show? How deeply do you feel about this live broadcast of life?
In the final analysis, viewers actually watch such live broadcasts just for entertainment.
Laughter and tears are just accessories of entertainment. Don't let the audience think too much.
Just like many movies and TV series, even if you are shocked to tears after watching it, your life will still not change in any way.
This adds to the tragedy and consumerism of Truman's "Joker".
It can even be said that the audience is always a rabble watching the excitement and an object of consumption. As a creator, no matter how much meaning he gives to his work, it may be "forgotten" for the audience.
"Irony everywhere!"
After the movie ended, Liu Weilin sat in his seat and sighed: "I can already imagine the scene where "The Truman Show" swept all kinds of awards. Excellent scripts, excellent directors and actors, combined together, can achieve success.
This is a great movie.”
Liu Weilin's emotion was noticed by the surrounding reporters, which immediately triggered a series of commotions.
Even Director Liu called it a great movie. The popularity of this movie seems to be imaginable.
When the lights came on, all the reporters rushed to find celebrities for interviews.
There were also four or five reporters rushing to interview Liu Weilin, hoping that the famous commercial film director would talk about his impressions.
Liu Weilin smiled and said amidst the noise: "Actually, each of us is a Truman. When we grow up, everyone loses their freedom little by little, is bound by the helplessness of reality, and is constantly being arranged by various arrangements, or
Constantly making choices against their will because they have no choice. For example, those classmates whose parents have always arranged school, arranged work, and arranged blind dates are the same as Truman. Some "Truman" slowly began to hate this arrangement, and constantly awakened and
Resistance leads to freedom in the end, but there are also some "Trumans" who still enjoy this arrangement and think it is good. The most tragic thing is the kind who are not aware of the manipulation behind it and live in a daze.
For those 'Trumans' who live indifferent lives, if I were the director of this drama, I would probably laugh and feel very accomplished."
Sense of achievement?
The reporters were thoughtful.
At the end of the film, amidst a round of applause, all the main creative staff walked onto the stage again and began to accept questions and answers from reporters.
Li Qing was satisfied with the audience's response. During the entire movie, there was no noise. Even the laughter and shouts were negligible. And the more the plot unfolds, the more this phenomenon unfolds.
The less it is, and by the second half, all noisy sounds are basically eliminated.
Until the end of the movie, no one left. Everyone was immersed in the world of the movie. There was no hilarious dialogue like "Westward Journey". "The Truman Show" gave the audience more to think about.
At the same time, the film critics at the scene, after closing their eyes and thinking for a while, began to leave one by one to prepare their impressions of "The Truman Show".
They were invited not just to watch the movie, not to mention they also received red envelopes from others. As a film critic, of course they have to write a shocking film review to be competent.
If it's an ordinary gossip movie, they get red envelopes, which is considered hush money.
But "The Truman Show" is different. It is a rare and excellent movie with plot and depth in recent years. They have a lot to say about such a movie.
Looking at the small book full of comments in his hand, Yu Fenglin was both happy and sad.
As an invited film critic, he cannot be completely immersed in the world of movies like ordinary viewers. Therefore, every once in a while, he must force himself to step out of the world of movies and write down some of the movie's facts with a professional eye.
Shining point.
I just didn’t expect that when these shining points were gathered together, they would be recorded in a small book!
And most of the reviews are very positive.
This is extraordinary. Thinking back to when he attended the premiere of the movie "Beyond the Pacific", he wrote down many shining points in his little notebook, but there were definitely not as many as he does now.
And many of the highlights are dispensable, unlike "The Truman Show" where I still wanted to write after writing two sentences, and felt like I was out of control.
Therefore, after leaving the premiere, Yu Fenglin confessed his love to all his friends, couldn't wait to return home, turned on his computer, logged into the Red Sweet Potato Film Review Network, entered his exclusive account, and then opened the film review page of "The Truman Show"
, in the content editing column, type out word by word the volcano in my heart that is about to erupt.
"Are you watching other people perform? Or are you being watched?"
"Has there ever been a sudden day when you began to doubt the authenticity of things around you?"
"When you find something is wrong with the world, will you have the courage to break through the interlocking life chain designed by others?"