Jim Carrey imagines a dark and philosophical sequel to Truman Show

Released in 1998, Peter Weir’s comedy-drama won six awards.

This movie has made us all a little paranoid at some point in our lives. In The Truman Showto be seen again this evening on Gulli, Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), who lives a peaceful life in the idyllic seaside resort of Seahaven, realizes that he has actually been the star of the biggest reality TV show of all time since the day he was born. Those close to him, including his partner and his own parents, are in fact actors. The last scene of the film shows Truman leaving the huge studio where he was held prisoner without his knowledge, to take his first steps in the “real world”. Directed in 1998 by Peter Weir, the film won six awards and eleven nominations, including Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars.

Interviewed by Collider for the promotion of Sonic the Moviein 2020, a family saga in which Jim Carrey plays the role of Doctor Robotnik, the actor imagined what the continuation of the adventures of Truman Burbank could look like in a philosophical response: “In my opinion, The Truman Show exists today on an individual scale. (…) now everyone has a channel or an account on social networks. Everyone has their little one Truman Show to him. People often ask me what would have happened to Truman on the other side of the wall. It took me a while to understand that in fact he would have been all alone there too, because everyone would have gone inside (the false world). Everyone would have wanted to be in the dome”. The dome symbolizing the enormous studio recreating the town of Seahaven.

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