Mentions (11)
"I find that cities with a lot of new infrastructure often have this artificial, Truman show-like quality. It's most common in cities with large financial districts or ones that are the governmental centers of their country/state - totally lacking in character or culture."
"But there's another theme that was in three separate big movies in a span less than a year 1998-1999 and which I can't think of notable examples before or since: * Dark City (1998) * Truman show (1998) * The Matrix (1999). All three are about how the world is illusory, incomplete, set up by some mal"
"Weir has never made anything so epic or broadly entertaining (Truman Show is broadly entertaining and his other films follow similar themes but they are just smaller films)."
"Instead of going home after work sometimes i go on long dangerous overnight walks. It's getting old however and I'm looking for new ways to prove to myself that I'm not in the Truman show. I'm going through a midlife crisis btw."
"Not truman show but maybe more like a reverse truman show where it's blocking some type of doomie/gloomie atmospheric energy. Maybe it's just that some of our suburbs/copy/paste towns have gotten so depraved that people are just giving off death vibes."
"Is this whole place one big fucking practical joke being played on me? Some jacked up Truman show? How are people this fucking regarded? Am I the only conscious person on earth?"
"But it's like a switch. I feel awful. I'm self-sabotaging. I have so much trouble believing that I could do anything. It feels so fake, almost as if I'm in The Truman Show. The joke is on me and everyone is just saying what I want to hear."
"Boogie is at least a combination of my 600 lb life, the Truman Show, and Jerry Springer."
"It was very much like The Truman Show but this was well before that movie came out. Sometimes on car rides home, I would stare out the front window looking for signs of them fixing up the world for me."
"It was very much like The Truman Show but this was well before that movie came out."