《楚门的世界》英文影评

第一篇：《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.

第二篇：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

第三篇：《楚门的世界》英文影评

Movie Review of the Truman Show

Born as a TV star, Truman is living in a small island called Seahaven for the first half of his life.But he doesn’t know that everyone and everything happened around him is fake.Nor dose he know that the place he lives for so many years is actually a huge studio.With the plot spreading, Truman gradually realizes that there is something wrong with his life;It seems that everybody and everything is focused on him.Leading by his dream, he managed to get out;leaving the world that was created for him and went to that unknown outside, dark and dangerous.Freedom is an eternal topic in western movies and is also very important for all of us.How can a people live without freedom and privacy? I see that Truman lives in such an amazing environment that everybody in the world can see him and there is no privacy for him at all.But after he finds that he is living in a fictitious world, he makes up his mind to leave the studio to live a life that belongs to him.To get the girl he loves and his freedom back, he overcomes his psychological barrier and fights with the storms and lightening made by the chief conductor of the movie---the Truman Show.Finally, Truman makes it and get out of the fictitious world although he knows that there maybe many unknown obstacles waiting for him.This is the power of freedom and love.Another thing I’d like to mention is that when reporters ask why Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world

until now, and then the answer is that we accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.I was shocked when I heard this.In our daily life, we get used to what is happening around us so we never ask why this just happens.Although we live our lives everyday, life itself is the thing easiest forgotten by us.If we pay more attention to our life, we may find that there are so many things for us to do to enhance our life.We are usually getting numb with time going by.So be curious about the things happened in our life and you may find that life is interesting and happy.Cherishing your life and enjoying your life, you can make a big difference.

第四篇：楚门的世界英文影评

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《楚门的世界》英文影评

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The Truman show was really a very good movie, we can learn some truths from it, the lively perform and the touching story let us moving, I feel very happy about at last Truman run out the ‘truth’ world by other make, in spite of other attitude and choose his life.Born as a TV star, Truman is imprisoned in a small island called Seahaven for the first half of his life.Of course Truman don’t know he is a star, at first we all think Truman was a man, ordinary, like the life around us, he has many desires and very easy to meet, he has work、wife、parents、friend and so on, live a normal life, everything look normal, but with the develop of the plot, we know everything is arranged, his work、wife、parents and everybody around him are all actor, when we know it , all the audiences care about him ,Truman start to find his friends, his wife and everybody, everything are focus on him, And at last, he finally realized that there was something wrong with the world he lived in.Leading by his dream, he managed to get out, leaving the world that was created for him and went to that unknown outside, dark and dangerous.Audience see the Truman’s ‘truth’ live, the director aim to attract the audience’s eye, when Truman happy he would give him time to create some trouble, when in its depressed, then size the opportunity to open it alive.The most moving is the end of the movie, Truman is awake, and he told the camera, really the ‘God’ strike played out.Panic talented director, he will lose the audience, he strove to retain Truman, the director told him to leave the control of the world is very dangerous, but Truman was out of the door, walks over to the dark unknown world, he said that the world waiting for him no matter what, he did not care, Buddhism, the ‘epiphany’ one said, and that a complete self-sufficiency of human nature is dead in the dust covering it, it lost, Truman is the insight it seems, he should get back the lost self, the self-contained complete and carefree nature.The audiences are cry, they feel very happy just because Truman , He get truth life with his struggle, no matter how the world was, the importance is that he choose his life , he decide his friends、wife and so on about himself, no one can make Truman’s life.Not only the story was very good, but also the dialogue was worth to remember, such as first, Good morning, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

Second, I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life.The world, the place you live in, is the sick place.Third, I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life.The world, the place you live in, is the sick place, of course these only part of the wonderful dialogue, but I very like these dialogue.We can learn some thing from the movie, actually life is like a show, no matter in virtual world or fact life , we all play role in different part, we all should bravery in the fact of new life, new challenge, we should let us life become funny and live a meaning life.Weather we may give up something or not, I think life should make by you, no one can do it except you, I hope everybody can do it.

第五篇：楚门的世界影评

《楚门的世界》影评

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《楚门的世界》影评

《楚门的世界》是我“上法律与电影”课上第一次看的电影，感觉挺好看的，电影又叫《真人秀》，《真人世界》，这种电影的题材和其他电影不一样，这是一个活生生的人的真实世界，而他身边的人都是演员，只有他一个人是真的，这种类型的电影我也是第一次看。

这部电影说的是一个庞大的电影公司领养了一个婴儿，在他的身边安插了无数的摄影机，让他从小在一个巨大的摄影棚里长大而自己却不知。这个婴儿就是楚门，一个电视长剧的主角，他的一生都被摄影机记录下来，在全球220个国家 24小时滚动播出，整个电视中间没有广告，一秒不停歇。本来一切都在天才导演克里斯托的掌握之中，但忽然有一天，曾经饰演楚门已过世父亲的演员的再度出现，改变了一切，它让楚门发现了这个骗局并离开了这个谎言。

在此影片中，色调最开始以明亮的基调为主，但在楚门开始怀疑自己的人生后，影片的画面就开始主要以较暗或者黑暗的基调为主。然后摄影机的拍摄角度有着很多的不同，有的是固定在某个地方的，比如楚门家里的时钟摄影机、前院摄影机、厕所镜子中隐藏的摄影机、楚门车上隐藏的摄影机和楚门在婴孩时代悬挂在他上方的摄影机；有的是佩戴在人身上的针孔摄影机，这种摄影机的角度一般会跟随着楚门；还有海上的悬浮摄影机等。只要在画面的四周有着圆形的黑色边缘时，就证明，这是在对楚门进行偷拍。它们有的会随着楚门的动而动，有的则不会动。这种镜头的记录方式很奇怪也很神奇，因为一般拍摄电影所记录的故事都要靠摄像机的镜头把画面收纳进去，但是我们在看的时候并不会想到我们的角度与镜头是在同一个角度，然而，在观看楚门的世界的时候，我就会感觉似乎是我拿着一台摄像机在对楚门进行拍摄。

从影片的开头我们可以看得出，长剧《楚门的世界》已经记录了楚门30年的人生，但是影片一开头就是从楚门的第三十个年头开始的。虽然我们并没有看到楚门前三十年在镜头中的样子，不过影片在中段有穿插了几个片段，分别是楚门在上学时暗恋一个女孩子、楚门在年幼的时代父亲丧生于大海、楚门婴孩时代抬头悬望记录下他点滴的摄像机，还有一些一闪而过的小片段。

虽然我们都没有完整的从楚门的小时候观看到楚门的三十岁生活，但是我们却能通过一点小小的片段及几句简单而又重要的台词清楚的明白三十年间在楚门的世界里都发生了什么事。《楚门的世界》以其不可抗拒的吸引力把我带入了它的世界。这部电影，充斥着太多元素，虚假与真实，美好与残酷，刺激与平淡，荒诞与惊奇。当我在观看电影的时候，是以欣赏的角度，人在戏外。但是结束电影，走入真正的生活中，突然发现，其实，人在戏中。电影中的桃源作为戏中导演的拍摄基地，其实也是一个压缩后的社会组织基地，这里面有着小人物的悲欢离合，存在着各种人物冲突，而电影中体现的价值观念也是一种非常典型的组织价值问题。

楚门从刚开始出生，就注定了无法选择自己的命运，就像是一个玩偶一样被人操纵着，成为他真人纪录片的男主角，巨大商业利益的创造者。世界上的17亿人见证着他的成长，他生活中的一切都是虚假的。他的妻子，最好的朋友马克，朝夕相处的同事等等，每个人都是演员，都围绕着他这个唯一的主角。不仅如此，就连蓝天，雷电，每天升起的太阳，都是那么不可思议的用一些高新技术手段制造出来的，还有身边的一切事物都是广告产品，都那么商业化，当然，最悲剧的是，他整个人就已经被导演商业化了。但是，这一切他还没有意识到，直到死而复生的父亲偷偷潜回片场，这个导火索让他的生活起了变化。他慢慢地发现自己像被人密切关注着，自己的一举一动都被人掌控着，身边的事物和人都是在接连不断的重复，身边的一切故事和情节都是预先设定的。这让他对自己的生活起疑，他向身边人求证，却得不到任何答案。当然，他的心中一直有一个目的地，斐济。这是他的初恋女友施维亚的所在地。施维亚当初善意的提醒并没有给楚门的世界作出根本改变，但是，却给了楚门一个希望，一个寻找自由的，寻找真实世界的希望。可是，他最终发现，他终究无法逃离桃源，任何的交通工具对他来说都是行不通的，周围的一切信息都在阻止他离开，更可怕的是，他一直无法战胜自己心灵里的恐惧。最后，父亲的一场闹剧被导演完美的解决了。

当所有人都认为楚门会回归到导演为他安排的生活中时，楚门却悄悄离开了，他想找寻这场闹剧的源头，他想重回自由，他想突破自己，想拥有一个真实的世界。终于，当他独自驾着一艘小船在海上航行时，导演基斯督用几乎疯狂的方式让他留下，但是海面上的狂风暴雨阻挡不了他的决心，他终究在与基斯督的博斗中取得了第一阶段的胜利，然而，当他驾驶的小船戳破海平面上的蓝天时，在他不愿意伸出手去触摸蓝天的那一刻，楚门才真正的发现，他所在的世界是虚假的，除了他自己。当时的他痛苦万分，沮丧无比，但他还是依然的站了起来，甚至使基斯督通过空中对话方式说服他回到桃源，然而，楚门终究是向上帝罢工了，他依旧走向了的真实的世界，真实的生活。

电影中的楚门是不屈服的，是充满挑战精神的。当他意识到自己所处的安逸和幸福的生活都是虚假的时候，他毅然决然选择跳出这个囚笼，踏向一个未知的世界。所以这部电影是一个时代的隐喻，其实我们个人都是楚门这个角色内在的演绎。最让我深思的，是这部片让以真实人物的视角展现给观众的，而这更容易使观众产生共鸣，更重要的是它提出了一个很重要的组织社会问题，当你所处的世界背叛你时，当你拥有一个选择的机会的时候，你是否会勇敢的踏出出口呢？生活在这样一个社会大组织中，我们有时候也会发现自己被欺骗，被操纵，被利用，被愚弄。你身旁的友情，爱情，甚至亲情都是虚假的。此时的我们是向现实妥协，继续沉浸于谎言之中，把自己玩弄于鼓掌之间，甚至自娱自乐，在狂欢的瞬间，出卖我们的隐私，尊严甚至生命。还是，我们能勇敢一些，撕开这个虚伪的世界，用真实的自己创造一个真实的世界。

楚门只是一个很平凡的人物，在他的身边发生的一切事情都是一个平常的人会经历的，没有什么太大跌大落的起伏，或许正是因为他的平凡，人们才更愿意去接受他，因为他更贴近平凡人的生活。但是，相反，他却又是不平凡的，虽然他正常的成长着，但他身边的一切，包括他本人，都是被安排了的。从出生，到学走路，到失去父亲，到初恋，到结婚，甚至如果不出意外，到他生子老去死亡，这一切的一切都在天才导演克里斯托的掌控之中。幸好在最后的最后，楚门终于找到了真相，并勇敢地走向了门外的世界。

我很佩服楚门的勇气，因为对他来说，门外是他从未接触过的世界，他对外面一无所知，并不是每一个人都能拿出勇气走出去的。在影片的最后，所有的观众都为他的抉择感到无比的开心，虽然他们即将失去一个楚门，但是他们心中却多了一份楚门的勇敢为他们带来了启发，他们三十年来观看《楚门的世界》总算

没有白白浪费时间。在我们生活中，楚门这样的事情可能是不存在的，但类似的人却绝对有，比如从小就被家长固定了生活模式的可怜孩子、又如为了家庭每天做着同样重复的事情的家庭主妇，他们都可以有楚门的精神，勇敢的去冲破被束缚的一切，发现一个属于自己的人生，过属于自己的人生，并让它精彩无限。世界上如果有什么你怀疑的，那就去证实，下定决心，就请像楚门一样勇敢的踏出那扇门，不要向现实妥协。活在真实的世界，做真实的自己。