(英文五分钟演讲)《楚门的世界》presentation

第一篇：(英文五分钟演讲)《楚门的世界》presentation

Good morning everyone!I’m XXX.I am very happy to have this chance to give my presentation about a movie “The Truman’s show”.Now let me introduce this movie to you.This movie is a black comedy about a man named Truman Burbank.In the movie, Truman is a happily married insurance salesman living a normal life in an island named Seahaven.He has many desires and very easy to meet.He has a loving wife Meryl, and a loyal buddy named Marlon.His life is so comfortable that he has never felt the need or desire to leave this island although he wants to be an explorer.Life is rosy until one morning a stage light drops from the skies and shatters on the ground close to him.Then, he finds that everyone surrounds him is strange.In this way he is beginning to feel scared extremely.Why do people seem to be travelling around him in a loop?

As a matte of fact, he doesn’t know the truth that he lives in a film studio.His own life is controlled by director.Life to him is real but fake.Truman’s life is just a soap opera made by the director and open to the mass.People knew everything he does，such as how he was born, went to school, got a job，got married and so on.They are witness of Truman’s life.Everyone live together with him are all actors.Everything they do is in the director’s arrangement.His wife,who is claimed herself a doctor, is not a doctor at all.His father, who was died in a storm, is still alive.All actors are supposed to be cheated.Truman’s life is absolutely a vast lie.Cruel but realistic!

After Truman knew the truth, he wanted to leave this “lucky homeland” to find the first girl he loved deeply in heart.He went to several agencies of transporting, while the ships were gone or destroyed, the plane tickets sold out.Then he drove his own car, it is strange that he will always face the traffic jam wherever he go.When he found one way to escape, amazing that, the police knew him and brought him home.He realize he must do it all by himself.The faith of love and freedom gave him the brave heart to defeat the stormy sea.At the end, the director try to persuade him back to the island, but Truman made his choice.He said to the director “In case I don't see you, good afternoon good evening and good night” There may be more dangerous, sham and cheat out of the island, but all of this come from nature and society not from the people stared him all the day.Well.After I saw the film, I am shocked.As time passed, no longer the young birds, we are the eagles soaring to the skies.We should have a brave heart to pursuit the thing which in our inner heart instead of setting for the surface of our life!

第二篇：(英文五分钟演讲)《楚门的世界》presentation

Good morning everyone!I’m XXX.I am very happy to have this chance to give my presentation about a movie “The Truman’s show”.Now let me introduce this movie to you.This movie is a black comedy about a man named Truman Burbank.In the movie, Truman is a happily married insurance salesman living a normal life in an island named Seahaven.He has many desires and very easy to meet.He has a loving wife Meryl, and a loyal buddy named Marlon.His life is so comfortable that he has never felt the need or desire to leave this island although he wants to be an explorer.Life is rosy until one morning a stage light drops from the skies and shatters on the ground close to him.Then, he finds that everyone surrounds him is strange.In this way he is beginning to feel scared extremely.Why do people seem to be travelling around him in a loop? As a matte of fact, he doesn’t know the truth that he lives in a film studio.His own life is controlled by director.Life to him is real but fake.Truman’s life is just a soap opera made by the director and open to the mass.People knew everything he does，such as how he was born, went to school, got a job，got married and so on.They are witness of Truman’s life.Everyone live together with him are all actors.Everything they do is in the director’s arrangement.His wife, who is claimed herself a doctor, is not a doctor at all.His father, who was died in a storm, is still alive.All actors are supposed to be cheated.Truman’s life is absolutely a vast lie.Cruel but realistic!After Truman knew the truth, he wanted to leave this “lucky homeland” to find the first girl he loved deeply in heart.He went to several agencies of transporting, while the ships were gone or destroyed, the plane tickets sold out.Then he drove his own car, it is strange that he will always face the traffic jam wherever he go.When he found one way to escape, amazing that, the police knew him and brought him home.He realize he must do it all by himself.The faith of love and freedom gave him the brave heart to defeat the stormy sea.At the end, the director try to persuade him back to the island, but Truman made his choice.He said to the director “In case I don't see you, good afternoon good evening and good night” There may be more dangerous, sham and cheat out of the island, but all of this come from nature and society not from the people stared him all the day.Well.After I saw the film, I am shocked.As time passed, no longer the young birds, we are the eagles soaring to the skies.We should have a brave heart to pursuit the thing which in our inner heart instead of setting for the surface of our life!

第三篇：《楚门的世界》英文影评

My thought about Truman

All the people can know about Truman, such as his life.For 10,909 days, it has been on the air, using more than 5000 cameras to show every moment in every day of the life of him.But unfortunately, it is he that didn’t know.Around the world, everyday there were millions of people watching his life which had already been set.I thought it may be terribly sorrowful of him to accept such a truth.Thus he got mad, and nothing can hold back his heart for freedom.We know his name is Truman, which stands for truth.But his life is full of falsehood.No one told him that until he finally got it.The director said, the life in the island is the truth.Truman used his action to prove it a lie, a total lie.Freedom is the thing that exceeds everything in the world, nothing can be in place of it.Of course, if he chose to live in the island, he can be original pop star, he can get many things comfortably.Yet as a bird, we choose to fly in the sky.As a man, we also need to our own sky.The movie might tell us this moral.Although Truman was born to be a man losing freedom, he was still a man.His option is himself, not making fun of others.The ending of movie, audiences were touched by his perseverance, and then switch the TV channel.It’s so ironical about their behaviors.However, the society is just this look.So what we should do is to pursue our own bliss.If Truman gave up himself, the god will also abandon him.We are what we do, and we need our freedom and perseverance.

第四篇：楚门的世界英文影评

Life is starting to imitate satire.“The Truman Show” was only made seven years ago, but it predates the current mania for so-called “reality” television shows such as “Big Brother”.The idea behind such shows is that they present the viewer with a slice of actual reality-real people in real situations with real emotions-rather than the simulated reality of drama or the edited reality of documentaries.The flaw in this idea is that nothing is more unreal than a reality show.The presence of the cameras has a distorting effect, inducing artificial behaviour patterns in those who appear in front of it, and the sort of people who star in such programmes are almost invariably eccentric exhibitionists.“The Truman Show” takes the central concept of reality TV shows one stage further in order to overcome this flaw: what would happen if we made a reality programme about a person who has absolutely no idea that he is appearing on television? Truman Burbank is an insurance executive, living in a small American seaside town called Seahaven, and happily married to a nurse named Meryl.Or at least he thinks he is.What Truman doesn't know is that he is the central character in a soap opera and that his whole life is a fiction.The company he works for does not exist.Seahaven, the island it stands on and the surrounding ocean are all part of a gigantic set, specially created for the programme and sealed off from the outside world in a gigantic geodesic dome.Everyone in Truman's life-Meryl, his mother, his colleagues at work, his best friend Marlon-are actors playing out their roles in his drama.For thirty years Truman has accepted his world unquestioningly, but at the beginning of the film a series of incidents-a light falling from the sky, the reappearance of his father, who was supposed to have drowned in a boating accident when Truman was a boy, strange messages picked up on his car radio-awaken his doubts.Although members of the cast make strenuous attempts to dissuade him, he decides to try and explore the world outside Seahaven;in particular he wants to travel to Fiji where he has been told that his former girlfriend Sylvia now lives.(Sylvia was written out of the show when the scriptwriters decided that he should marry Meryl instead).The film has certain similarities with another film from the late nineties, “Pleasantville”, which dealt with an inverted version of the same idea;two teenagers from the real world are magically transported into the world of a fifties television show.In my view, however, “The Truman Show” is the better of the two.“Pleasantville” deals with its political themes in a heavy-handed way with some very obvious symbolism.“The Truman Show”, although it deals with some weighty issues, is never ponderous or excessively serious;indeed, it is often very humorous.The main source of humour is the contrast between the naïve, trusting Truman and the behaviour of those around him, all living a lie and desperately trying to prevent Truman from finding out that it is a lie.I had previously thought of Jim Carrey as a rather annoying actor whose appeal was based upon the idea that manic overacting is in itself funny, but here as Truman he is very good indeed, both amusing and touching.I was also impressed by Ed Harris as Christof, the show's enigmatic producer.Another factor in the success of the film is its visual look.Seahaven(like the town in “Pleasantville”)appears as an eerily perfect, not-quite-real version of the typical American small town, but was actually filmed in a real place, the purpose-built village of Seaside, Florida.There are similarities with the cult British sixties television series “The Prisoner”, which was also filmed in an eerily perfect seaside village, Portmeirion in North Wales.Critics have been lavishing enormous praise on this movie since it opened in America last June, and probably rightly so because it is a superbly crafted piece of work.Weir's direction is outstanding, frequently viewing events from the point of view of hidden spy cameras, such as the one in Truman's car radio.One stunning shot has the town's main street full of motionless extras, waiting for Truman to turn the corner.Jim Carrey's performance has been singled out for particular praise, and though his acting is of a much higher standard that his usual comedy antics, it is not exactly Laurence Olivier.This said, an Oscar nomination would have been well deserved.The film is obviously a satire on the intrusiveness and obsession with celebrity of the modern media;added relevance was given by the fact that it came out shortly after the death of Princess Diana.There is, however, more to it than that.Much has been made of the film as religious allegory;it has been pointed out that Christof whose name is clearly, and quite deliberately, similar to “Christ”, is a God-figure, whereas Truman(the “True Man”)is a symbolic Everyman.It has even been claimed that the film is an anti-religious allegory, with Truman's final escape from Seahaven symbolic of man's need to break away from outdated religious dogmas.This is not an interpretation with which I would agree-if one is trying to put across a “God is dead” message, it seems odd to provide a God-figure who is very much real, not mythical or illusory.The imagery of the final scenes – the calm after the storm, the ascent up a flight of stairs into the sky and clouds-also struck me as religious rather than secular.Moreover, the film seems too complex to be reduced to any single allegorical meaning, although it certainly deals with the relationship between man and God.It also touches on man's need to explore-both to explore new places and also to explore new ideas and to break away from established ways of life and ways of thought-and on the nature of reality.Truman's world may seem unreal to us, but as Christof says, “we accept the reality we are presented with”.This is a brilliant, multi-layered film, part comedy, part satire, part philosophical speculation, and in my view one of the two best movies of the late nineties.(The other was “American Beauty”).I felt it should have taken the “Best Picture” Oscar for 1999-“Shakespeare in Love” is a good film, but “The Truman Show” is a great one.It confirms my view that Peter Weir is one of the best directors currently working

第五篇：楚门的世界英文观后感

I feel deeply after I watch Truman show.It makes me think about our life and media Truman is a leading role in his own world unconsciously.He lives in that peaceful world out of willingness.Do the creature that others pay attention to.His own life is control by director.Life to him is real but fake.Truman’s life is completely open to the mass.People knew everything he does，such as how he was born, went to school, got a job，got married and so on.They are witness of Truman’s life.Everyone live together with him are all performers.Everything they do is in the director’s arrangement.His wife, who is claimed herself a doctor, is not a doctor at all.His father, who was died in a storm, is still alive.All performers are supposed to be cheat.Truman’s life is absolutely a vast lie.But when you know your life is rally a lie, do you have to courage to expose it? Will you choose to give up your peaceful life under control rather than to be the leading role of your show? Not everyone has the courage to go out.May be you will say: “It is easy to go out.”

But we can’t understand, predict and control the outside world, can you?

Sometimes I wonder if I also live in that fake world.Am I the real leading role of my Truman Show? I don’t know.If I live in this situation, I will be angry and want to escape from this huge prison.I will feel disrespect and boring because in my mind no one has the right to arrange my life.No one can control it including me.My life is supposed to be an adventure.Nobody knows what is going to happen.If it is like a soap opera as Trumann’s, it will be meaningless.Nobody wants to be a victim of media.But I have to admit, media is powerful, we can’t live without it and we have to suffer from it, especially stars.Nowadays media is full of our daily life.We surf the internet to look up news whenever we want.We like to watch movies, news, soap operas, talk shows or other television programs in our leisure time.Surfing the internet to know anything we want to know.We always talk with our classmates about everything happened around us, such as new movies on show, new songs, the scandal about starts and so on.Public figures seems don’t have the right to keep privacy.They are beneficiaries of media, but also victims.What can we do to avoid us suffer from media, or to avoid being violated and misleading? I think we should not rely on media everywhere and anytime.Sometimes we should have our own judgments rather than follow those so called experts.We had better more focus on our daily life not the famous person’s.We had better not spending to much time on watching TV and try to do something meaningful by watching TV.We should make full use of media rather than rely on it.