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...want to sing out, in one of Carrey's trademark siren wails. As dreamed up by screenwriter Andrew Niccol and realized to sunnily subversive perfection by director Peter Weir, The Truman Show is so verdant with metaphor and emotion that it works on any viewer's level. You will laugh. You will cry. You will be provoked to ask yourself why you feel this way. And for once in a blue moon of movies, you will think. Isn't that one of the best buzzes you can get leaving a multiplex...
...rough sailing to the edge of his universe--so close he can literally touch it--and to the shattering answers to the questions consuming him. This makes The Truman Show a quest movie. Our hero's need to know himself and his place in the universe gives the viewer a passionate rooting interest. But like any supple parable, the film allows for several plausible interpretations. It is also about control--the control we try to exercise over ourselves and others, using stratagems of love, hope and fear. Most people think they have something to do with shaping their existence...
...decided to make him a prisoner in paradise." He toyed with various endings--Truman stumbles into a Truman Burbank memorabilia shop, Truman is reunited with his lost love, Truman decides he loves life on TV--and finally devised the current ending, nicely abrupt and ambiguous. "We felt the viewer could write a better ending of the next years in Truman's life," says Weir...
...User Illusion was obviously not written in the interests of the average "Wheel of Fortune" viewer, but beyond the book’s grand foray into consciousness lies a simple admonition: redundancy hurts, for less is much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders...
DANCE WITH ME (July 31). Or: Shall We Dirty Dance in the Strictly Ballroom? Finally a film caresses Vanessa Williams as the star she should be. When she and her sexy partner (Chayanne) step out to Lectro Luv's Dream Drums, the body work jolts the viewer like a megadose of Viagra...