Kind of strange not to comment on the absurdly prescient film that provides the title of the book in review: Peter Weir’s The Truman Show.
It’s fair to say that reality TV and its tropes were not unknown when the film premiered in 1998, but they were seen as an MTV novelty. The Truman Show made what was essentially a metaphysical argument about being the star of your own life that has stood the test of time and then some.
I do wonder sometimes what a 20yo today steeped in the world of TikTok, Only Fans, and Donald Trump would think of Truman—as someone that age when it was released I can say it seemed fantastic. If we only knew!
It’s fair to say that reality TV and its tropes were not unknown when the film premiered in 1998, but they were seen as an MTV novelty. The Truman Show made what was essentially a metaphysical argument about being the star of your own life that has stood the test of time and then some.
I do wonder sometimes what a 20yo today steeped in the world of TikTok, Only Fans, and Donald Trump would think of Truman—as someone that age when it was released I can say it seemed fantastic. If we only knew!
How will it end?