篇一：楚门的世界 英语影评
On Infiltration of Escapism
----A Brief Comment on The Truman Show
Abstract: The Truman Show1 deserves spectacular appreciation for its unique approach—intercutting shots between program of Truman and "real life" footage of the director and spectators. The specialty of presentation sufficiently lays out Escapism in Post-Modernism layer by layer. Followed a brief introduction about the intercutting approach in this movies and Escapism, this paper concentrates on the cause, manifestation and influence of Escapism from the shifting angles of view: Truman, director and spectators. Then it draws a summarization that Escapism has overall infiltrated into human’s life.
Key words: The Truman Show, Escapism, shifting angles of view, intercutting, Post-Modernism
The Truman Show, as a typical milestone of the movie industry, puts other traditional gees in the shadow by intercutting the real-time documentary between program of Truman and "real life" of the spectators and director. Firstly, the movie chiefly centralizes on the Truman Burbank’s angle of view. The protagonist, whose entire life is broadcasted in a hugely popular 24-hour-a-day TV series, is gradually aware that his existence is captured by concealed cameras and tries his best to get away from the authoritative domination. Secondly, the movie alternately intercuts the shot to the angle of view of spectators, who are keeping a watchful eye on Truman’s every particular gesture and behavior for escaping from the perceived unpleasant aspects of daily life. Thirdly, the movie shifts the scene to director’s angle of view. It reveals that his motivation of creating the cheerful community of Seahaven(a materialization of “paradise”) is to run away from the hypocrisy and complexity of the world outside2. In short, whatever angle of view the movie sets out, it gives embodiment of Escapism all the time and all the way.
As for Escapism3, it is a mental diversion or tendency to seek distraction and relief from banal reality in the era of Post-Modernism4. Although different reference books provide different illustrations5, several characteristics are endorsed. For one thing,
Escapism is regarded as an inherent expression of Post-Modernism, for urbanization, industrialization and technological existences have removed people from their biologically normal natures and the rigors of daily life. For another thing, it is unilateral to assert that escapism carries an extreme and negative connotation, suggesting escapists are depraved or sorrowful. In fact, escapism also indicates optimistic significance for positive escapists with an inability or unwillingness to connect with the world meaningfully.
Related with this movie, three kinds of Escapism, namely, Truman’s positive Escapism, director’s extreme Escapism and spectators’ negative Escapism have been infiltrating into human’s life. The cause, manifestation and influence of will be analyzed in detail.
From Truman’s angle of view, Escapism is endowed with the property of positiveness and has done a great favor to obtain freedom. First of all, his Escapism originates from his consciousness of being controlled and the conspiracies of life. As we know, he has grown up and lived in a fake town getting along with actors. The town is enclosed in a giant dome with high-tech simulations of sun and sky, in which the rain and wind are productions of the special effects. In the beginning, he knows nothing that the rest of humanity watches him in a 24-hour-a-day reality programming. Fortunately, he gradually figures out that his surroundings are full of staged scenes and events. Hence, His intention to escape is put into practice as an adequate dynamic and driving force to convert the bound situation and obtain the precious freedom. Above all, his positive Escapism provides the ample motivation to flee the fake and hold the authentic life in his arms. It is his positive Escapism that makes him come up against both his own fears of water and the obstacles put in his way by the producer-director who has made billions of traps in a stage set and playing a God role in his life.
From director’s angle of view, Christof’s extreme Escapism has buried his humanity and conscience, which seed in his collapse in essence. In the beginning, his Escapism stems from his despair towards degenerate modern society. today's affluent societies are in danger of becoming rotten and hypocritical environments under the
impact of urbanization, industrialization and technological existences etc. In the movie, Christof shows his hopelessness towards reality several times. Therefore, his Escapism is put into effect as a passageway to reject and isolate from the reality, As we can say, he chooses an extreme way to create the lifelike simulations and story lines from the high-tech facsimile of a sun that benevolently beams down on Truman to the mock sincerity of the actors who Truman mistakenly believes is his family and friend. All that he has done embodies his abnormal and freak Escapism from reality. In sum up, Christof’s extreme Escapism leads to his deformity of personality and final breakdown.
From spectators’ angle of view, it is the negative Escapism that gives rise to their crazed behavior of being addictive in peeping Truman’s life immorally. Firstly, spectators’ negative Escapism derivates from their desires of getting out of the unpleasant sufferings pessimistically. As we can observe, although the fans may live very normal lives— having children, relationships and regular jobs, they spend their regular time escaping into an idealized world and lose their own mind in the made-up show. As Truman’s fate rises and falls, the spectators’ emotion fluctuates fiercely. They are devoted enough to throw themselves into the series and treat themselves as actors. Consequently, spectators who get excessively involved as fans of Truman show are pursuing an unhealthy level of escapism. The negative Escapism masquerades as a better anesthesia than exploring the hard truths of this world. As a result, negative Escapism leads to symptoms of mental illness such as dependence on media and peeping.
In brief, after analyzing the brilliantly-conceived satire, we can easily draw the conclusion that the intercutting shots between program of Truman and "real life" of the director and spectators fully demonstrates Escapism has overall infiltrated into human’s life. Truman certifies positive Escapism can play a effective role in fulfilling dream. Director’s Escapism makes him run away from the absurdity extremely. proper Spectators’ Escapism leads them to turn down to engage in the true world negatively.
Notes:
1. The Truman Show is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. The film chronicles the life and evading of Truman Burbank, who discovers he is constrained in a reality-feigned soap opera, televising to billions by live transmission.
2. As evidence, here are two quotations of Christof’s lines. The one say, “I have given Truman a chance to live a normal life. The world. the place you live in is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.” The other says, “There's no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. Same lies. The same deceit. But in my world, you have nothing to fear.
3. This definition is cited from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
4. Post-Modernism is a style and concept in the art, architecture and criticism dating from the late 20th century, which represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as o problematical relationship with any notion of art.( cited from the Oxford English Reference Dictionary)
5. The Longman Advanced American Dictionary defines it as “reaction or activities that help you forget about bad or boring things for a short time”. The Advanced Oxford Dictionary defines it as “an activity, a form of entertainment that helps you avoid or forget unpleasant things.” Bibliography:
(1). English movie “the Truman Show” at
(2). Comments on media and psychological interpretation of the theme of the Truman show at:
(4). The script of The Truman Show at http://group.mtime.com/
(5). Busch, Anita M, "New Truman villain: Harris", Variety.
(6). Turna, Kenneth "The Truman Show", Los Angeles Times
《楚门的世界》,作为一个典型的里程碑电影产业,把其他传统文体的阴影被intercutting程序之间的实时纪录片杜鲁门和“现实生活”的观众和导演。首先,这部电影主要集中在杜鲁门伯班克的的视角。主人公,他的一生是一个非常受欢迎24-hour-a-day里播放的电视连续剧,逐渐意识到他的存在被隐蔽的摄像机和尽力摆脱权威统治。其次,电影或者intercuts球道视角的观众,他们保持警惕是基于杜鲁门的每一个特殊的姿势和行为脱离察觉到日常生活的一些让人不愉快的方面。第三,电影导演的转移现场的视角。结果表明,他的动机创造欢快的社区的Seahaven(一种物质化“天堂”)是逃避的虚伪和outside2纷繁的世界。总之,无论电影的视角出发,它给的化身,逃避现实的方式。
至于Escapism3,它是一种精神分流或倾向于寻求分散注意力和缓解平庸的现实
Post-Modernism4的时代。虽然不同的参考书提供不同illustrations5,几个特性背书。首先,作品被视为一个内在表达的后现代主义,城市化、工业化和技术的存在已经清除了生物学上的百姓从他们的正常的性质和严格的日常生活。另一方面,它是单方面的断言的作品带有极端和消极的内涵,说明人是逃避现实者是堕落或悲伤。事实上,逃避现实也显示乐观积极的意义和一个人是逃避现实者不愿意/不能与国际接轨意味深长。
与这部电影,三种逃避现实,即杜鲁门的积极的逃避现实、导演和观众的极端的消极逃避现实的逃避现实已经渗透到人类的生活。原因、表现和影响,将进行了较详细的分析。
从杜鲁门的视角,被赋予了作品的性质做了一个积极性和获得自由很受欢迎。首先,他的作品源于他的意识被控制和生命的阴谋。正如我们所知道的,他已经长大了,住在一个假的城镇与演员相处。这个小镇封闭在一个巨大的圆顶和高科技的模拟太阳与天空,风吹雨打都生产特殊效果。起初,他什么也不知道,其余的人看着他在24-hour-a-day真人节目。幸运的是,他慢慢地指出他的周围充满上演的场景和事件。因此,他有意避开付诸实践作为一个足够的活力和动力转换绑在一起的情况,得到了最珍贵的自由。首先,他的作品提供了充足的积极动力逃离假并保持真实的生活在他的臂弯。这是他的积极意义的作品,使他碰到两个他自己恐惧的水和障碍放在他的方式producer-director已经出了数十亿的陷阱在舞台上扮演一个神,在他的生活中。
从董事的视角,创造者的极端的作品已经埋葬了人类和良心,种子在他的崩溃在本质上。起初,他的作品来自于他的绝望走向现代社会堕落。今天的富裕的社会里是在危险成为腐朽不堪,虚伪的环境的冲击下城市化、工业化和技术的存在等。在这部电影中,展示了他对现实创造绝望几次。因此,他的作品投入效应是一个通道拒绝和隔离从实际出发,我们可以说,他选择了一个极端的方式来创建模拟和故事栩栩如生的线路高科技传真一个阳光,仁慈地梁下的模
篇二：楚门的世界英文影评
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《楚门的世界》英文影评
Movie Review of
The Truman show was really a very good movie, we can learn some truths from it, the lively perform and the touching story let us moving, I feel very happy about at last Truman run out the ‘truth’ world by other make, in spite of other attitude and choose his life.
Born as a TV star, Truman is imprisoned in a small island called Seahaven for the first half of his life. Of course Truman don’t know he is a star, at first we all think Truman was a man, ordinary, like the life around us, he has many desires and very easy to meet, he has work、wife、parents、friend and so on, live a normal life, everything look normal, but with the develop of the plot, we know everything is arranged, his work、wife、parents and everybody around him are all actor, when we know it , all the audiences care about him ,Truman start to find his friends, his wife and everybody, everything are focus on him, And at last, he finally realized that there was something wrong with the world he lived in. Leading by his dream, he managed to get out, leaving the world that was created for him and went to that unknown outside, dark and dangerous. Audience see the Truman’s ‘truth’ live, the director aim to attract the audience’s eye, when Truman happy he would give him time to create some trouble, when in its depressed, then size the opportunity to open it alive. The most moving is the end of the movie, Truman is awake, and he told the camera, really the ‘God’ strike played out. Panic talented director, he will lose the audience, he strove to retain Truman, the director told him to leave the control of the world is very dangerous, but Truman was out of the door, walks over to the dark unknown world, he said that the world waiting for him no matter what, he did not care, Buddhism, the ‘epiphany’ one said, and that a complete self-sufficiency of human nature is dead in the dust covering it, it lost, Truman is the insight it seems, he should get back the lost self, the self- contained complete and carefree nature. The audiences are cry, they feel very happy just because Truman , He get truth life with his struggle, no matter how the world was, the importance is that he choose his life , he decide his friends、wife and so on about himself, no one can make Truman’s life.
Not only the story was very good, but also the dialogue was worth to remember, such as first, Good morning, and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!
Second, I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Third, I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place, of course these only part of the wonderful dialogue, but I very like these dialogue.
We can learn some thing from the movie, actually life is like a show, no matter in virtual world or fact life , we all play role in different part, we all should bravery in the fact of new life, new challenge, we should let us life become funny and live a meaning life. Weather we may give up something or not, I think life should make by you, no one can do it except you, I hope everybody can do it.
篇三：楚门的世界观后感(英文版)
The Truman Show
The Truman Show was be on 1998, and the director is Peter Weir. It is a veryclassic film.
In this film, Truman’s life was made into a reality TV show. Even his parents, wife and friends were actors. Finally, he realized it and succeeded in leaving the style of life.
For one thing, the story is not only different but also very novel. It seems strange and misty at the beginning, which carries a foreshadowing of what is to follow later on in this story. Who is Truman and what is going to tell us? However when we know what happened to Truman, we are shocked by that creative spot. Then we are wandering what his pursuit for. The director seizes we audiences’ curiosity perfectly. For another, its language is very humorous. For example, ”Good morning! And in case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night! ” .
This movie impresses me deeply and I think it is very meaningful. On the one hand, though Truman lived in a peaceful world, he refused to accept that style of life, which was not managed by himself. He, including us, can not bear being tricked and controlled. I wander if everyone has the same courage to expose the life filled with lie? On the other hand, the media plays a important role in our daily life. But can you imagine that you are a leading actor in a reality TV show one day? Nobody wants to be a victim of media. This movie is a good sarcasm of modern media. It tells us not to rely on media everywhere and anytime, and sometimes we should have our own judgments.
In a word, it is more wonderful for us to direct our own life .It may be not peaceful enough, but it has the freedom our pursuit for.
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