At the end of the twentieth century, not only "Batman", "Terminator", "Jurassic Park" and other dazzling science fiction films swept the world, but also a postmodern movie shot in an absurd style. Compared with the same era The movie, it does not have a strong audiovisual bombing to deliberately attract the audience's attention, but in a nearly telling way to convey to the audience a fascinating fable, it is "Trumen's World". The
film uses live shooting techniques to remind the audience in the form of a monologue that "more than 5,000 cameras are installed on the island", and the rapid cutting of the shots in the film and the extensive use of hidden perspective shooting techniques bring strong live broadcast to the audience. Visual perception, when Chumen was being supervised, the camera hidden behind the mirror of the washbasin recorded the state of Chumen waking up every day, and used a head-up perspective to draw in the audience’s affinity with him; another example is that Chumen left in the morning. At home, the camera imitated the subjective perspective of a black couple and adopted a special frame and pushing the lens to adopt Truman’s expression, imitating the perspectives of passersby, his wife, and various flowers and birds, and locked the visual center to Truman, implying that Truman was in The state of being captured by cameras everywhere, the sense of sight brought by these lenses is the embodiment of Trumen being monitored, and it also counteracts the satisfaction of the audience’s voyeuristic desire to achieve the live broadcast effect envisioned by the director. However, it must be mentioned that early In 1998, Peter Dian Will used live broadcast as a media form of expression. It can be said to be very avant-garde and terrific. It also indicates that this medium has a magical attraction and subconsciously controls people’s sensory thoughts. Let it slowly accept the "so-called reality" presented on the silver screen as the camera moves.
is undoubtedly one of the highlights of "The Truman Show", "We watched the show, we were tired of hypocritical expressions, and weary of fancy stunts." Just like the preface of Christo, he decided to abandon the script and use A live broadcast was carried out in the most direct and real way, and the broadcast lasted 30 years. As the film said, "This is an unprecedented performance." However, it is not a real presence without a script. Because Trumen’s life is surrounded by everything the director arranged for him, and he is instructed to save the scene in real time in a sudden state. Therefore, it can be said that the actual participation in the absence of script is a drama. Truman in China. He is like the caveman mentioned by Plato, living under the reflection of the wall, but he also happens to have the courage to explore like a caveman. It was this courage that gave film reviews a very reasonable turning point, turning this day-to-day live broadcast into a wonderful game of wit and courage, turning it into a deciphered and competitive series of layers, allowing Trumen to Every time we break through the time limit ignites the passion of the audience, it also indirectly arouses the resonance of our subconscious resistance to life outside of the film. In the story of Truman, the director Peter Will tells us the courage to explore, which is indispensable in human nature, and also expresses that people will not completely succumb to the so-called established reality, but will dare to break through the "cave" to pursue the sun the spirit of.
Avalon: According to legend, it is surrounded by swamps, woods and mist, and can only be reached by boat. Director Peter Weir constructed a man-made Avalon, where the protagonist Truman has everything that people expect: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a healthy body, and even the rising of the sun and the setting of the moon. Yuan Que is tailor-made for him. To the audience, Truman is their spiritual sustenance in the world of ideas, so that all people in the world are paying attention.
But this is also the final theme that the director wants to express. The world on the screen is almost perfect, but the audience outside believes that it is real, but Truman, who has been in it for thirty years, has produced the established world. resistance. This brings me back to Plato’s metaphor of the cave. Do people who live in the cave know that they are in the cave? Peter Weir used "The Truman Show" to tell a new age fable about the cave, but at this time it is the Truman on the silver screen living in the cave or the numbed creatures who are watching Truman.
"The World of Truman" has made a magnificent ending to the end of the 20th century. It can be said that the director's thought expression in this commercial film has even risen to the height of philosophy of life. It is undeniable that this film does have a strong symbolic meaning. The false world of Trumen is used to refer to this real world, which shows our struggle in life. The question and answer on whether the caveman is Trumen or ours is proposed by the director. , Is also proposed by ourselves. In this world as we know it, whether the truth is at our fingertips or close to the end of the world is one of us.An oracle that has been exploring all my life.
