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The Truman Show is a powerful satire on media intrusion into people’s lives. How have filmmakers used the codes and conventions of documentaryAnd film to involve us in Truman’s story?
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The Truman Show is a powerful satire on media intrusion into people's lives. How have filmmakers used the codes and conventions of documentary And film to involve us in Truman's story? The very first time I watched 'The Truman Show' I thought, wow! What a great film, and never thought in too much detail about it. My subconscious concentrated on the obvious, and without realising, I'd missed a lot of the main points that would have helped my understanding of the film further. After studying it carefully I started to notice the smaller details and codes that had been added to film, that before I would never have even considered looking for. What was striking about the opening sequence of the film was, there were credits for the film itself, followed by another set of credits for the show Christof directed. It was a very confusing start to the film because naturally after...
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