The Truman Show

Peter Weir and Andrew Niccol\'s satire imagined the surveillance economy of online life half a decade before it began — Truman\'s town, his marriage, his memories, all designed for an audience. The film coined a real psychiatric diagnosis ("Truman Show delusion") that genuinely afflicts patients in the social-media era.

• Originally written as a much darker science-fiction script.
• Jim Carrey took only $12 million to escape his comedy mold.
• Cited in psychiatric literature as the namesake of the "Truman Show delusion".
• Peter Weir had the entire studio set built as a working town.
• The closing sequence was shot in a single take.

• "Good morning, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night."
• "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
• "Cue the sun!"
• "Was nothing real?"
• "You were real. That's what made you so good to watch."