Hey guys! 😂😂😂 damn! Y’all came for blood on this one in the comments! I want you all to know that I listen to all feedback, good or bad! I’ll do a better job of really trying to pay attention to intricacies in the plot of future movies. However, I won’t stop saying outlandish shit because I literally say whatever happens to pop up in my head as I’m watching 😂😂 Love you guys a lot! Peace and love, everyone!
I think the reason we don't see what happens once Truman escapes is because there aren't anymore cameras on him. He's escaped his film world, so we don't get to see what happens on film.
It could've been really cool to have a sequel of somebody who lived their entire life in a simulation trying to adapt to the real world. But I guess their weird deep message means that's impossible, and at this point Jim Carrey's retirement is probably gonna interfere with that possibility lol
This comment section is basically a group of friends showing that one friend a classic movie and sighing with barely restrained frustration when they point out everything BUT the plot
That's why I should never watch movies I already seen with people.😂 My problem is that I pay attention. I remember watching Jackie Brown with my parents and they got confused by the end and making up their own plot points and conclude that it was a stupid movie and that I liked stupid movies( my parents LOVED to tease)So I tell them what happened(trying to not lose my cool) and they went:" naaah. Is that what happened? How did we miss that?" Me: "Because I spent most of the time trying to block out your incessant chatting throughout the movie!" Them:"oooooh.. testy! If you spent more time focusing on your studies as you focus on watching a movie, you might not have flunked out in school! You think you sooo smart..."
I hate friends that literally stare at you when they show you something so you gotta fake laugh to appease them. So awkward and kills the vibe. Like, let me enjoy it! You never catch everything the first time you watch it.
But it was still a huge mega hit when it came out. Usually when movies are ahead of their time, they aren’t very big when they came out. But this movie was always very popular
This came out after the first ever 'Big Brother-reality show'. There was an explosion of real life TV programmes at that time. The Truman Show was an artistic commentary on life becoming a commodity that can be exploited.
@@RSpracticalshooting yeah, you’re right. But it was popular for more reasons than that though. The plot and the concept and the fact that it predicted the future of the world, also it had a great impact on people’s mentality
brev i swear on my life i opened the yt app just to look at the comments on this video to see if anyone noticed. its so annoying cause then he wonders why he learnt nothing
In the cut content, they hint that Marlon fell into drug addiction because he feels guilty lying to Truman for so long. And he's the guy who has to endorse beer on the show, specifically by drinking it. Could you imagine what kind of hell that would be?
My man is the only guy that can watch a film and not get the plot or idea that EVERYONE apart from Truman is in on it, that EVERYTHING is designed to keep him in one place.
Editor's notes were SO ON-POINT with this one, especially the talking too much part lol (Alex always seems to ramble on the longest when he's trying to figure stuff out, and it's always RIGHT BEFORE he's going to be told what's going on lol)
@@girlwoaface yes, but commenting on a film or making an observation doesn't have to have talking about random topics for 5 minutes at a time while the movie plays while missing the entire movie.
@@girlwoafacelots of reactors are able to make commentary without missing all of the details. The better ones pause if they know that they are prone to ranting over the movies.
"I just wish he would sit there quietly the whole time so he can spot stuff that I only noticed on my third re-watch." Stop tellin him he talks too much, he's just being real and givin his thoughts
He probably missed the ads because we're surrounded by ads everywhere all the time, so they don't stand out and therefore are not remarkable or noticeable (O the irony). The only ones that really should have caught his eye, or rather ear, are the spoken-word inline product placements.
Okay I totally agree, but I think he also had 0 idea the premise of the movie, so in a weird way it was like sort of a twist, similar to the people that watched it for the first time in theaters. The movie is just so talked about that years before I even saw it I knew it was about a guy who was in a TV show but he’s the only one that doesn’t know. I think Alex didn’t get that message, leading to his confusion
@@gryphnation7091 Except that the movie never hides the fact it's a TV show, and the reveal that it's all in a gigantic TV studio comes very early on, Alex just missed it somehow. I vaguely recall an interview with the director saying that they never wanted there to be any doubt about what was going on - the point of the movie isn't "is it reality, is it fake?" but just "will Truman figure it out and escape?". I enjoy Alex's random ramblings, but sometimes he does pick bad moments to get lost on one of his tangents 😅
I mean, it clicked for him, eventually. Not everyone who walks into this film without seeing any sort of trailers or having heard any of the chatter over the years about it is instantly going to grasp what they're going for. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is everyone in on it, or only select individuals? As much as you think the answers are patently obvious, not everyone's brains work the same.
A few bits: The twins pushing against the wall was to highlight the advertisement behind him. His best friend "Freckles" has a few deleted scenes that show the actor playing him genuinely being destroyed by the role. Spending time in rehab and clearly being more emotionally conflicted. He even has one scene where he finds Truman during the search and lets him go. Which, IMO is a shame they removed them. There is also the irony of the guy running the show who leaves Truman with no privacy but jealously guards his own. This film is especially great on a rewatch where you can see even more blatant clues. Like the woman running the travel agent still having the tissue from her makeup being put on.
This is one of those movies you can watch a dozen times and find new things about Truman. Then if you focus on everyone else aside from Truman, you can rewatch it dozens of times and find even more. I've seen this movie so many times and never noticed the travel agent lady's tissues.
19:00 cars with missing headrests is a very common thing in movies and TV. They remove them so that, if you have to have a camera in the backseat, the headrests aren't in the way of the actors faces.
Forrest was actually quite good at logical thinking. You show him how to do something and his autosomal nervous system just picks it up. Sudoku would be easy for Forrest...but he wouldnt understand the point of doing Sudoku and not getting anywhere, physically. He sees more sense in mowing the lawn for free.
I love the editor notes expressing exactly how we feel. How did he not see the pull back of the giant dome, or the fact that the moon was a command center?
Please watch this movie again on your own and pay more attention lol. You think it’s good now, with all the stuff you missed you’ll appreciate it even more. They literally showed/explained the massive studio they built for him, and there’s so much background stuff like the neighbor’s trash can had a big ass camera lens poking through the front. Marlon took the candy bars out and put them back in which is why he was taking so long, he was filling time while Truman talked. The new co-worker was replacing Meryl as a love interest (the director said so), and she was a blonde in a red sweater like Sylvia because they were trying to subconsciously influence him to like her. The twins push him up to frame the advertisements on the right. In the photo album Meryl’s fingers were crossed. So many details, and layers.
Yeah I just left a comment about how I like Alex but fuck me he was not actually watching this movie at all, cause he seemingly didn't grasp a single part of it
This film is a monumental work of art. Alex should watch Being John Malkovich now, but with a straitjacket over his mouth lol I'm not THAT mad i'm still here like everyone else lol
The weird thing about his wife randomly doing sponsorships//promos in the middle of convos (like for Mococoa) is that Truman wouldn't know this was abnormal. He grew up with everyone around him talking about products like that. He should think those interjected "ads" are perfectly normal.
There's context. She just talked about the Mococoa to him like an ad after saying she'd make him some. So, who's she trying to sell it to? It's one thing when she tells him to buy a new tool or ask a group of friends if she should make that drink and do the ad. It's still weird if she's alone with him, tells him she's making it for him, then does the ad - it's like who are you talking to?
@@Serai3 Exactly. He lived his whole life like this without suspecting anything. He started oddities here and there but couldn't put it together, until the radio glitched. That's when he started to look past the curtain and things became more and more obvious to him.
@@MrShaun42088I’ve only seen one other reaction from this guy… it was Django unchained, and he was very obnoxious throughout it. The only reason I watched it was because I like that movie and I’m the biggest Jim Carrey fan so I wanted to see this one but I don’t know that I’ll watch anymore of his reactions
It's so frustrating when Alex doesn't get the point of some things early on (like when she crosses her fingers during the wedding wows, or the travel agent posters intended to keep him from traveling)
@@nice9735 When someone cross fingers during an action or a statement it means is a lie. In this case Truman’s wife cross her fingers meaning their marriage is fake, a lie.
As a semi-frequent viewer, I think the part of the audience who are frustrated by this reaction take issue with the fact that you spend so much time trying to think of ways to interject with yelling that you don’t actually REACT to what is happening because you miss it entirely. When you actually engage with the content of what you’re watching, you’re very entertaining. When you’re trying SO HARD to be funny, you miss a lot of what is going on and it really detracts from the experience. I think for a lot of people, reaction content is like sharing your favourite movie with a friend. In this case, rather than getting to see how that friend’s face lights up at the twists and turns etc., you sit there dejected as he yells over the plot with completely unrelated dick jokes. This movie is just drawing out more negative commentary because what is happening is literally told to you and is so obscenely obvious that it reads like you’re more interested in doing a skit than reacting to what you’re watching (which, to be clear, you’re obviously entitled to do. It is your channel!)
That's true. He should be talking, since it would be boring if he would just sit there and do nothing, but the way he does it, he misses a big part of the movie
Yeah, for some reason, I was a little bothered with how he reacted to this film. Probably because the plot was so obvious and laid out for the audience to see, that when he entirely missed it, it was like 🤔😤😩. But, I still love him, and think his commentary is often funny...sometimes a tad to raunchy, however. 🤤
a lot of movies from 90s or the very early 2000s were really good, after that I think it started switching into serialized shows, which aren't ever given proper endings because they try to drag them out as long as possible, or they just straight up don't have enough plot to make a serialized show work but if it was cut down to a movie it'd be an extremely good one.
23:00 "and the last thing I'd do is lie to you" Truman never accused him of lying to him, this is why he gives him this look, at that moment he knows he's lying because he's defending himself from something he's not been attacked by.
But before that he mentions that for everything to be a lie he'd have to be in on it too, meaning he'd have to be lying to Truman, that's why he says he'd never lie to him.
There's so much about this film you didn't get or didn't pick up on straight away, but then conversely you noticed something I''ve never noticed after all the years watching this film: that their Ford sedan doesn't have headrests. Thank you for pointing that out to me.
Seemed to miss it..when he’s talking to his friend stocking the candy machine, his friend takes candy back out of the machine so he has more to stock. Also, when looking at the wedding photos, he sees that his wife had her fingers crossed.
24:00 it took me multiple rewatches to realise that trueman didn't cry here becouse he thought his father survived. He cried there becouse thats the exact moment last shread of doubt left his mind and he realised with certainty that everyone he loves and cares for were fake.
I see stuff like that in biomedical research too lol. Someone can be brilliant but basically spend all of their mental energy at work and then they can barely do basic addition at home
"who the hell wants a desk job?!" I do... I've been working years in a highly physical job and i can feel it tearing on my body. I'm also very interested in working digitally. I could easily say i'm one of the few who prefer a desk job over a physical job. Most of the physical jobs are far too demanding, at least the ones i've had.
One scene that got cut is where Meryl says, "I thought we were going to try for a baby." Truman replies with something like "Why do you want to have a baby with me? You can't stand me." This often gets cut from reaction videos, and yet, I think it's so important because it shows that in his heart, Truman senses that things aren't right.
Was hoping someone mentioned this, a lot of films do this. I would say I am surprised Alex hasn’t caught onto that, but then again he rarely gets the plots lol
For me… this movie is a commentary on Plato’s cave allegory. “We accept the reality of the world we are presented” perfectly captures this movie. Knowing that, we can make our own conclusions of the message behind the movie.
I love you and your channel, bro! One of my favorites! But just watch the movie sometimes. Even just watching you react to moments without hearing you speak on them would be amazing.
I watched a few of his Patreon exclusive vids and the few where he watches with his friends or editors are much more satisfying. The reason being they are there to clue Alex in on all the shit he is oblivious to and questioning. You know the stuff we usually yell at our screen at him when he’s missing something.
They wanted to show footage of the audience in real time at one point to make the mega point really drive home. Another movie you should watch that they’d never dare to make again is Tommy Boy, you should add that to your list
This has been one of my faves for a long ass time. It's a nice blend of drama and subtle creepiness isn't it. 😂 Love your response to the 'finger clicking' dude in the office. Haaa!
I love how when Alex realizes it’s a tv show from his birth he still thinks those guys are still just pushing him against a walll, but doesn’t notice when they do it it’s always in front of a billboard as an “ad” for the product hahahaha
We watched this in grad school in medical ethics (psychology and schizophrenia). We had the hardest year in that class, we had to learn DSM IV and DSM V. The diagnosis of schizo does fit when he starts to find out, but the fact that he was kidnapped/purchased as a "living cell", confuses that he is suffering from "kidnapped" syndrome, you live and accept/protect your terrorist who has taken you hostage (living in the town). That throws it a total 180 deg thinking it that way.
The mental prison caused a disassociation with his true feelings and perceptions. Negative reinforcement stopped him from getting out of a situation despite his innate desire to venture out. He has entered into a schema of will-less complacency but can only keep the act up for so long. Truman isn't sick; he's being gaslit and is showing all the signs of prolonged mental abuse. . His fear of water is directly linked to his fear of abandonment. That's why the fear was doubled down on; to keep him in the Dome. That is abuse. Truman behaves like somebody with CPTSD and picked up some borderline-traits. A person who perceives they are being watched but is able to give plausible reasons, is not schizophrenic. Their behaviour is a 'schizoid affect', which has nothing to do with schizophrenia but everything to do with being manipulated under duress for an extended amount of time.
Most people would kill for a 9-5 steady job, instead of shift work, or having to clamor for hours, or working multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads. I don't get the weird attitude towards that. You get a guaranteed weekend. You get steady income. 9-5 jobs typically also have the highest average salaries with the lowest risk. Win-win; work to live, not live to work.
I remember living through the OJ trial. People became this engrossed in that trial and some people were lost when it ended. It seems crazy, but never underestimate how crazy the public an be.
Yea Alex talks and misses so much…love him, but totally get why the lawyer thing wasn’t a good fit. Big props for getting through torts class though!!! Fo reelz!!
21:07 - 21:18 😂I wish you hadn't cut the line, "What the Hell does this have to do with *anything?* Tell me what's HAPPENING!!" That's one of my faves.
27:03 They made him afraid of the water because he wanted to go places - Now imagine what they would do to the kid to keep him from jerking it, smoke or other things - They might show commercials and curtains but you don't know what they might do to minimize off screen moments. Everyone around him are actors or staff, I doubt they had an independent child psychologist monitoring it all - one that isn't on the payroll.
When someone does or says something they want to do while fingers are crossed, that means they truly don't mean it. This is what he saw in the wedding photo where they were taking their vows. The twins were pushing him into the wall for the ad on the poster lol You missed the scene where they showed the giant dome that was built for this tv show I guess.. lol
hi alex, you seemed confused over the wedding pictures. he saw that her fingers were crossed. i don't know if it's still a thing, but it used to be that if you crossed your fingers during a promise or a vow, you don' t really mean it and can not be held to it.
As his channel grew bit by bit, his ego grew exponentially. Now he thinks we're here for his "comedy" (3rd grade innuendo?). So he's stopped paying attention to the things he watches. All he's doing is looking to make "jokes" about every scene. And his weird fake laughter at his own 'jokes' is just maximum cringe.
If you remember back to the Avenged Svenbold reaction to "Life is but a dream" album, in Mattel they sing "Good afternoon, good evening and good night", that's a reference to the artificial world that is presented to Truman.
I love your outlandish comments lol. And I loved watching this with you. I haven’t seen it in so long and I remember the feeling I got in the end, the jumping up and down and clapping was me too lol. I loved seeing someone else’s view for the first time
Jim Carrey is known for his comedic roles like Bruce Almighty, The Grinch & Ace Ventura - to name a few - but I think he really shines through in his serious roles.
The editor's note at the end saying you talk too much.... it's very true. You missed SO much if you had just ya know.. not made s-xual comments every 2 seconds lol
Dude, you gotta spend more time paying attention and listening. You're missing details. They explained that he lived in a giant dome earlier in the movie.
Alex does make me laugh, clearly an educated man, married, but so brand new that he doesn’t have a clue. Especially this film, not picking up on any important details going on. I do enjoy watching his reactions but he does get a bit excited at times. Haha
I couldn't believe that this guy didn't get all the clues about this town being an entire reality show, i'm so lost for words. There were so much advertisement and product placement being placed everywhere 😂 I guess the show really got to him too. That's the magic of the Truman Show right there, all real.
"You accept the reality in which you are presented."- This line (or something along these lines) was spoken by the director of the show in the film. It plays on the allegory of the cave idea in which if you are presented with false facts your entire life, and nothing comes along to counter said facts, then that is what you grow to believe is truth. If you were born and raised on an island, completely separated from all contact from the outside world, and the person or people that raise you, tell you "The sky is purple and the grass is gray." You would grow your entire life believing that the sky was purple and the grass was gray. You were presented with a reality in which color identification is swapped around. In Truman's case, all the deliberate advertisements by everyone he knows would be normal to him. The thing about reality vs. facts is this. In isolation, all lies can be truth to an individual if that is what they know. It is REAL life experiences that lead to reasoning that leads you coming to an understanding of what is truth. Something like color names is a sociological truth invented by society so we can properly communicate and compare things of similar color. If you suddenly are integrated into society with the knowledge that the sky is purple and the grass is gray, then you will be corrected very quickly the moment you try to explain something of the same color as those two examples.
Strangely enough, I feel like I get asked often “what if” we live in a simulation and my answer is always the same. I feel sorry for whomever is controlling my avatar because… damn. 😂 We arent losing but we ain’t winning either lmao
Sad part is, as a society we're pretty much back here now. Brand deals, sponsors, and people constantly broadcasting their kids lives on tiktok and youtube for a buck.
I think it could also be seen as a coming of age metaphor. At the end he's saying goodbye to the "safe" environment his "father" built for him and he's going out in the real world
Hey guys! 😂😂😂 damn! Y’all came for blood on this one in the comments!
I want you all to know that I listen to all feedback, good or bad!
I’ll do a better job of really trying to pay attention to intricacies in the plot of future movies.
However, I won’t stop saying outlandish shit because I literally say whatever happens to pop up in my head as I’m watching 😂😂
Love you guys a lot! Peace and love, everyone!
Yeah you didn't catch everything, but I liked the video anyway. You're funny and eventually got the message anyway. 😊
lmao, u just gotta find a way to pause and then start it back up where u dont lose sync of where u are. ur commentary is great but u do miss stuff. 😁
Please don't change, that's why we are here ;-)
Don’t worry about it man, enjoy the movie in your own way
Talk all you want, bud. But what you missed wasn't the intricate stuff, you missed the OBVIOUS stuff (like the commercials and the giant bio-dome) 😂
I think the reason we don't see what happens once Truman escapes is because there aren't anymore cameras on him. He's escaped his film world, so we don't get to see what happens on film.
That a good idea
Yep. His life is no longer public entertainment.
wdym there aren't? he's like #1 celebrity for the nearest future for sure there's gonna be people taking pics/vids of him everywhere
u dont get it kid@@instantchaos2385
It could've been really cool to have a sequel of somebody who lived their entire life in a simulation trying to adapt to the real world. But I guess their weird deep message means that's impossible, and at this point Jim Carrey's retirement is probably gonna interfere with that possibility lol
This comment section is basically a group of friends showing that one friend a classic movie and sighing with barely restrained frustration when they point out everything BUT the plot
That's why I should never watch movies I already seen with people.😂 My problem is that I pay attention.
I remember watching Jackie Brown with my parents and they got confused by the end and making up their own plot points and conclude that it was a stupid movie and that I liked stupid movies( my parents LOVED to tease)So I tell them what happened(trying to not lose my cool) and they went:" naaah. Is that what happened? How did we miss that?"
Me: "Because I spent most of the time trying to block out your incessant chatting throughout the movie!"
Them:"oooooh.. testy! If you spent more time focusing on your studies as you focus on watching a movie, you might not have flunked out in school! You think you sooo smart..."
@@GullibleTargetI'm sorry your parents suck mate. It is obviously not a you problem.
I hate friends that literally stare at you when they show you something so you gotta fake laugh to appease them. So awkward and kills the vibe. Like, let me enjoy it! You never catch everything the first time you watch it.
This was made before the internet was everywhere. Before cameras were on our phones. It was way ahead of its time
But it was still a huge mega hit when it came out. Usually when movies are ahead of their time, they aren’t very big when they came out. But this movie was always very popular
@@nsasupporter7557 I mean, Jim Carrey was the absolute biggest star of the 90s, so it's not surprising it's always been popular lol
This came out after the first ever 'Big Brother-reality show'. There was an explosion of real life TV programmes at that time. The Truman Show was an artistic commentary on life becoming a commodity that can be exploited.
@@RSpracticalshooting yeah, you’re right. But it was popular for more reasons than that though. The plot and the concept and the fact that it predicted the future of the world, also it had a great impact on people’s mentality
@nsasupporter7557 oh that's absolutely why it's had the staying power it has, but you can't deny that Carrey got the butts into the seats.
Sooo... I'm guessing Alex missed the whole "the world's largest soundstage that can be viewed from space" part? 🤣
It's hard to pay attention to what's basically the movie's plot when you're thinking about your next joke on Freckles.
@@whytortureiswrongtypical, yeah....
brev i swear on my life i opened the yt app just to look at the comments on this video to see if anyone noticed. its so annoying cause then he wonders why he learnt nothing
@@whytortureiswrong Yeah, but Freckles got velcro for hair! How could you not?
In the cut content, they hint that Marlon fell into drug addiction because he feels guilty lying to Truman for so long.
And he's the guy who has to endorse beer on the show, specifically by drinking it.
Could you imagine what kind of hell that would be?
That's wild
I mean if you were addicted to heroin...drinking beer isn't a big deal.
@@hitmixhyepock9405you didn’t need to advertise your lack of braincells
Didnt knew that, thanks.
@@hitmixhyepock9405mixing is dangerous
My man is the only guy that can watch a film and not get the plot or idea that EVERYONE apart from Truman is in on it, that EVERYTHING is designed to keep him in one place.
He got it so don’t know what everyone is complaining about
not 100%
@@nice9735...he was wondering how the people on the bus all knew him and the movie was almost done at that part...
You got it on your very first watch?
He was wondering whether. Now how. @@Lilithly
I love the fact that he missed the fact that he’s in a giant-ass dome. Alex….SHUT-UP!! 😂
Editor's notes were SO ON-POINT with this one, especially the talking too much part lol
(Alex always seems to ramble on the longest when he's trying to figure stuff out, and it's always RIGHT BEFORE he's going to be told what's going on lol)
Exactly. If he wasn't asking questions out loud he'd hear the answer
A movie will tell you everything if you just *watch* it.
In order for these videos to be fair use he is legally required to offer commentary. If he was just watching the movie it would taken down.
@@girlwoaface yes, but commenting on a film or making an observation doesn't have to have talking about random topics for 5 minutes at a time while the movie plays while missing the entire movie.
@@girlwoafacelots of reactors are able to make commentary without missing all of the details. The better ones pause if they know that they are prone to ranting over the movies.
Oof, I'm not even gunna watch based on this comment lol
Oh. Alex. They literally showed the studio the show is filmed in. they claimed it was one of the only structures visible from space.
The fact you miss like half the advertisements in the movie😂
Cos dude won't shut up
😊a
"I just wish he would sit there quietly the whole time so he can spot stuff that I only noticed on my third re-watch." Stop tellin him he talks too much, he's just being real and givin his thoughts
He probably missed the ads because we're surrounded by ads everywhere all the time, so they don't stand out and therefore are not remarkable or noticeable (O the irony). The only ones that really should have caught his eye, or rather ear, are the spoken-word inline product placements.
You're watching a react dud@@MrFoffof
"We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented". That one line pops every time I hear it.
If there wasn't video proof I would swear he was watching with his eyes closed
lol my guy did NOT understand the movie at all. he gets on the bus, the girl recognizes him and alex goes "wait, they ALL KNOW?" lololol
Okay I totally agree, but I think he also had 0 idea the premise of the movie, so in a weird way it was like sort of a twist, similar to the people that watched it for the first time in theaters. The movie is just so talked about that years before I even saw it I knew it was about a guy who was in a TV show but he’s the only one that doesn’t know. I think Alex didn’t get that message, leading to his confusion
who cares, he clearly had a good time with it
@@gryphnation7091 Except that the movie never hides the fact it's a TV show, and the reveal that it's all in a gigantic TV studio comes very early on, Alex just missed it somehow.
I vaguely recall an interview with the director saying that they never wanted there to be any doubt about what was going on - the point of the movie isn't "is it reality, is it fake?" but just "will Truman figure it out and escape?".
I enjoy Alex's random ramblings, but sometimes he does pick bad moments to get lost on one of his tangents 😅
@@gryphnation7091idk man, I watched this when I was 6 or 7 not long after it came out, and I knew what was going on lol
I mean, it clicked for him, eventually. Not everyone who walks into this film without seeing any sort of trailers or having heard any of the chatter over the years about it is instantly going to grasp what they're going for. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is everyone in on it, or only select individuals? As much as you think the answers are patently obvious, not everyone's brains work the same.
A few bits: The twins pushing against the wall was to highlight the advertisement behind him.
His best friend "Freckles" has a few deleted scenes that show the actor playing him genuinely being destroyed by the role. Spending time in rehab and clearly being more emotionally conflicted. He even has one scene where he finds Truman during the search and lets him go. Which, IMO is a shame they removed them.
There is also the irony of the guy running the show who leaves Truman with no privacy but jealously guards his own.
This film is especially great on a rewatch where you can see even more blatant clues. Like the woman running the travel agent still having the tissue from her makeup being put on.
This is one of those movies you can watch a dozen times and find new things about Truman. Then if you focus on everyone else aside from Truman, you can rewatch it dozens of times and find even more. I've seen this movie so many times and never noticed the travel agent lady's tissues.
19:00 cars with missing headrests is a very common thing in movies and TV. They remove them so that, if you have to have a camera in the backseat, the headrests aren't in the way of the actors faces.
Another clue as to what the town Truman lives in really is .
@@leovk5779 I'd say it's more meta than that, because it's an ACTUAL thing they had to do for the actual movie trueman show
Good lord. This was like watching Forrest Gump do a sudoku. 😂
👏 👏 👏
Forrest was actually quite good at logical thinking. You show him how to do something and his autosomal nervous system just picks it up. Sudoku would be easy for Forrest...but he wouldnt understand the point of doing Sudoku and not getting anywhere, physically. He sees more sense in mowing the lawn for free.
Trafiłeś w dziesiątkę 😎👌
👏👏👏👏👏
@@GullibleTarget Forrest: "I. Do. Know. What. -Love- Sudoku... is!"
I love the editor notes expressing exactly how we feel. How did he not see the pull back of the giant dome, or the fact that the moon was a command center?
Right? I was so confused how he just completely missed those huge important details...
And then there’s the “has he never had sex?” ‘Cause he was busy talking about that security guard’s haircut when they explained that lol
He was yammering on and missed the fact that Christof can turn it from midnight to noon at the snap of a finger
@@CGingerbreadman security guard? That’s Scully from Brooklyn 99.
Yeah, he missed the whole 'cue the sun' moment.
31:13 Talked over an iconic line there, dude! Christof saying, "Cue the sun."
The Editor's Note at 35:10 got it exactly right.
Please watch this movie again on your own and pay more attention lol. You think it’s good now, with all the stuff you missed you’ll appreciate it even more. They literally showed/explained the massive studio they built for him, and there’s so much background stuff like the neighbor’s trash can had a big ass camera lens poking through the front. Marlon took the candy bars out and put them back in which is why he was taking so long, he was filling time while Truman talked. The new co-worker was replacing Meryl as a love interest (the director said so), and she was a blonde in a red sweater like Sylvia because they were trying to subconsciously influence him to like her. The twins push him up to frame the advertisements on the right. In the photo album Meryl’s fingers were crossed. So many details, and layers.
Yeah I just left a comment about how I like Alex but fuck me he was not actually watching this movie at all, cause he seemingly didn't grasp a single part of it
This film is a monumental work of art. Alex should watch Being John Malkovich now, but with a straitjacket over his mouth lol I'm not THAT mad i'm still here like everyone else lol
The weird thing about his wife randomly doing sponsorships//promos in the middle of convos (like for Mococoa) is that Truman wouldn't know this was abnormal. He grew up with everyone around him talking about products like that. He should think those interjected "ads" are perfectly normal.
There's context. She just talked about the Mococoa to him like an ad after saying she'd make him some. So, who's she trying to sell it to? It's one thing when she tells him to buy a new tool or ask a group of friends if she should make that drink and do the ad. It's still weird if she's alone with him, tells him she's making it for him, then does the ad - it's like who are you talking to?
He did think they were normal... until he began to have suspicions about his world. Then he started noticing how odd it was.
@@Serai3 Exactly. He lived his whole life like this without suspecting anything. He started oddities here and there but couldn't put it together, until the radio glitched. That's when he started to look past the curtain and things became more and more obvious to him.
Bro. Alex. My man. Did you pay attention to a single second of this film? Love you either way haha
I dont.
I abandoned this reaction video.
@@Anon-xd3cfsame this was unbearable. I dont know this channel, but this video immediately turned me away from any of his content
This was one of the most painful reaction videos I've ever tried to watch, I couldn't even finish it out of frustration with his lack of attention.
spot on. seriously lost respect for the dude. i thought he was clever, not so much any more
@@MrShaun42088I’ve only seen one other reaction from this guy… it was Django unchained, and he was very obnoxious throughout it. The only reason I watched it was because I like that movie and I’m the biggest Jim Carrey fan so I wanted to see this one but I don’t know that I’ll watch anymore of his reactions
yeah, obnoxious is the right word lol@@nsasupporter7557
@@MrShaun42088 Most of his reactions are like this. Dude misses everything or is super slow on the uptake
It's so frustrating when Alex doesn't get the point of some things early on (like when she crosses her fingers during the wedding wows, or the travel agent posters intended to keep him from traveling)
Tbf lots of reactors miss the crossed fingers.
@@ScarriorIII True! Sometimes I think reactors do not fully enjoy movies because the keep talking and get distracted looking at the camera.
Seriously, I was getting pissed lol
@@ElvisC506I didn’t get it too
@@nice9735 When someone cross fingers during an action or a statement it means is a lie. In this case Truman’s wife cross her fingers meaning their marriage is fake, a lie.
As a semi-frequent viewer, I think the part of the audience who are frustrated by this reaction take issue with the fact that you spend so much time trying to think of ways to interject with yelling that you don’t actually REACT to what is happening because you miss it entirely.
When you actually engage with the content of what you’re watching, you’re very entertaining. When you’re trying SO HARD to be funny, you miss a lot of what is going on and it really detracts from the experience.
I think for a lot of people, reaction content is like sharing your favourite movie with a friend. In this case, rather than getting to see how that friend’s face lights up at the twists and turns etc., you sit there dejected as he yells over the plot with completely unrelated dick jokes.
This movie is just drawing out more negative commentary because what is happening is literally told to you and is so obscenely obvious that it reads like you’re more interested in doing a skit than reacting to what you’re watching (which, to be clear, you’re obviously entitled to do. It is your channel!)
I agree completely.
That's true. He should be talking, since it would be boring if he would just sit there and do nothing, but the way he does it, he misses a big part of the movie
Yeah, for some reason, I was a little bothered with how he reacted to this film. Probably because the plot was so obvious and laid out for the audience to see, that when he entirely missed it, it was like 🤔😤😩. But, I still love him, and think his commentary is often funny...sometimes a tad to raunchy, however. 🤤
This was years ahead of its time with regards to how reality tv affects people, it wasn't about Truman, it was about YOU.
See, this is one of those movies that actually did stay good throughout the years
@@moon-moth1honestly, kids that grow up in vlogger families probably feel a lot like Truman
@@moon-moth1Big Brother premiered a year after The Truman Show.
as opposed to all the movies that became evil and started attacking people
a lot of movies from 90s or the very early 2000s were really good, after that I think it started switching into serialized shows, which aren't ever given proper endings because they try to drag them out as long as possible, or they just straight up don't have enough plot to make a serialized show work but if it was cut down to a movie it'd be an extremely good one.
@QueenOfTheZombieApocalypsehello my name is Chris
The amount of answers you would get if you stopped asking questions and watched the damn movie. 🤣
23:00 "and the last thing I'd do is lie to you"
Truman never accused him of lying to him, this is why he gives him this look, at that moment he knows he's lying because he's defending himself from something he's not been attacked by.
But before that he mentions that for everything to be a lie he'd have to be in on it too, meaning he'd have to be lying to Truman, that's why he says he'd never lie to him.
There's so much about this film you didn't get or didn't pick up on straight away, but then conversely you noticed something I''ve never noticed after all the years watching this film: that their Ford sedan doesn't have headrests. Thank you for pointing that out to me.
Seemed to miss it..when he’s talking to his friend stocking the candy machine, his friend takes candy back out of the machine so he has more to stock. Also, when looking at the wedding photos, he sees that his wife had her fingers crossed.
24:00 it took me multiple rewatches to realise that trueman didn't cry here becouse he thought his father survived. He cried there becouse thats the exact moment last shread of doubt left his mind and he realised with certainty that everyone he loves and cares for were fake.
20:38 i love the detail that all the trees of the forest are in a perfect line like an orchard, because its man made.
Imagine making movie reactions and not paying the least possible attention to the movie you're watching...
Notice, when they're chatting at sunset, the lit up moon has the sun _behind_ it.
"We accept the reality that we are presented"
“What else is on” BEST METAPHOR OF OUR CURRENT SOCIETY, EVER MADE
Yup, everybody's just craving that next piece of "content."
Idiocracy lol
Every time I watch Alex, one question always comes up; "How in the hell is this two second memory man, a lawyer?
he is a LAWYER????
He is a really good lawyer. 🤣
He graduated law school. Don't think he's a lawyer.
I see stuff like that in biomedical research too lol. Someone can be brilliant but basically spend all of their mental energy at work and then they can barely do basic addition at home
@@thiefmathe said that he had a job related to that, idk if he was actually a lawyer or not tho
"who the hell wants a desk job?!" I do... I've been working years in a highly physical job and i can feel it tearing on my body. I'm also very interested in working digitally. I could easily say i'm one of the few who prefer a desk job over a physical job. Most of the physical jobs are far too demanding, at least the ones i've had.
6:50 I knew I recognized him. It's Scully from Brooklyn 99 😂
He even keeps the haircut 😂
One scene that got cut is where Meryl says, "I thought we were going to try for a baby." Truman replies with something like "Why do you want to have a baby with me? You can't stand me."
This often gets cut from reaction videos, and yet, I think it's so important because it shows that in his heart, Truman senses that things aren't right.
A cool detail is that Truman’s car doesn’t have headrest so that the cameras can get a better shot
Was hoping someone mentioned this, a lot of films do this. I would say I am surprised Alex hasn’t caught onto that, but then again he rarely gets the plots lol
For me… this movie is a commentary on Plato’s cave allegory. “We accept the reality of the world we are presented” perfectly captures this movie. Knowing that, we can make our own conclusions of the message behind the movie.
im getting a little frustrated with how much Alex is missing throughout this lol
“You never had a camera in my head” idk why but this line hits a little harder than anything else
1:30 He Did Not, In Fact “get it”. 😂
Never seen anyone struggle so much to understand the premise of a movie 😂😂😂
Not for nuthin' but man Alex here SCREAMED OVER THE FRIGGEN PLOT POINTS!!! So, yeah, that was fun.
one of jim's best if not his best - along with eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
I loved Liar Liar as a kid too
I love you and your channel, bro! One of my favorites! But just watch the movie sometimes. Even just watching you react to moments without hearing you speak on them would be amazing.
So basically shut up Alex lmao
@@SLUSH_PUPPYY I wouldn’t say that 😂 I do enjoy his jokes and commentary, but sometimes he’ll ask questions while they’re answering them 😂
He is about 29 years 10 months 16 days
3 hours 22 minutes ,and 52⅔ seconds old at the start of the movie.
Never seen this dude as clueless as he was watching this movie lmao
He was reacting to sound smart and then sounded absolutely dumb
I watched a few of his Patreon exclusive vids and the few where he watches with his friends or editors are much more satisfying. The reason being they are there to clue Alex in on all the shit he is oblivious to and questioning. You know the stuff we usually yell at our screen at him when he’s missing something.
Me thinking he's about to finally get the advertisements.
Him: Is that the mom from Ozark?
😂😂🤣
They wanted to show footage of the audience in real time at one point to make the mega point really drive home.
Another movie you should watch that they’d never dare to make again is Tommy Boy, you should add that to your list
45 minutes after the film ends
Alex on Take 370: "Waht if the wrold we live in is a simmalation?"
Even the editor calling out that he talks so much he misses the story of the movie LMAOOO
This has been one of my faves for a long ass time. It's a nice blend of drama and subtle creepiness isn't it. 😂 Love your response to the 'finger clicking' dude in the office. Haaa!
I love how when Alex realizes it’s a tv show from his birth he still thinks those guys are still just pushing him against a walll, but doesn’t notice when they do it it’s always in front of a billboard as an “ad” for the product hahahaha
The headrests are missing for a reason. In many films and shows they remove the headrests in the cars because it’s hard to film with them around.
The Editor note at 35:09 was just priceless
2:18 blud really became stephen hawking
It's SUCH a good movie! I remember being in year 9 (UK) and watching this for some reason in Geography 😆!
I watched it in RE (RS). I think it was in year 8 though
The twins pushed him against the wall in order to get the advertisement behind him in frame.
We watched this in grad school in medical ethics (psychology and schizophrenia). We had the hardest year in that class, we had to learn DSM IV and DSM V. The diagnosis of schizo does fit when he starts to find out, but the fact that he was kidnapped/purchased as a "living cell", confuses that he is suffering from "kidnapped" syndrome, you live and accept/protect your terrorist who has taken you hostage (living in the town). That throws it a total 180 deg thinking it that way.
The mental prison caused a disassociation with his true feelings and perceptions. Negative reinforcement stopped him from getting out of a situation despite his innate desire to venture out. He has entered into a schema of will-less complacency but can only keep the act up for so long. Truman isn't sick; he's being gaslit and is showing all the signs of prolonged mental abuse. . His fear of water is directly linked to his fear of abandonment. That's why the fear was doubled down on; to keep him in the Dome. That is abuse. Truman behaves like somebody with CPTSD and picked up some borderline-traits. A person who perceives they are being watched but is able to give plausible reasons, is not schizophrenic. Their behaviour is a 'schizoid affect', which has nothing to do with schizophrenia but everything to do with being manipulated under duress for an extended amount of time.
Most people would kill for a 9-5 steady job, instead of shift work, or having to clamor for hours, or working multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads. I don't get the weird attitude towards that. You get a guaranteed weekend. You get steady income. 9-5 jobs typically also have the highest average salaries with the lowest risk. Win-win; work to live, not live to work.
I remember living through the OJ trial. People became this engrossed in that trial and some people were lost when it ended. It seems crazy, but never underestimate how crazy the public an be.
Starts talking about random thing, *important plot point happens*, finishes talking and is oblivious to major plot points of movie..
Truman's fear of the water was tied to the disappearance/death of his father. Once his father returned, he no longer had any fear.
Yea Alex talks and misses so much…love him, but totally get why the lawyer thing wasn’t a good fit. Big props for getting through torts class though!!! Fo reelz!!
Took dude an entire movie to figure out Truman was on TV and on a set? Did you think Christoff was God? 😂😂😂😂😂
21:07 - 21:18 😂I wish you hadn't cut the line, "What the Hell does this have to do with *anything?* Tell me what's HAPPENING!!" That's one of my faves.
27:03 They made him afraid of the water because he wanted to go places - Now imagine what they would do to the kid to keep him from jerking it, smoke or other things - They might show commercials and curtains but you don't know what they might do to minimize off screen moments. Everyone around him are actors or staff, I doubt they had an independent child psychologist monitoring it all - one that isn't on the payroll.
When someone does or says something they want to do while fingers are crossed, that means they truly don't mean it. This is what he saw in the wedding photo where they were taking their vows. The twins were pushing him into the wall for the ad on the poster lol You missed the scene where they showed the giant dome that was built for this tv show I guess.. lol
hi alex, you seemed confused over the wedding pictures. he saw that her fingers were crossed. i don't know if it's still a thing, but it used to be that if you crossed your fingers during a promise or a vow, you don' t really mean it and can not be held to it.
I'm sorry Alex, but you missing every single detail in this movie, physically pained me 🤦♂️
As his channel grew bit by bit, his ego grew exponentially. Now he thinks we're here for his "comedy" (3rd grade innuendo?). So he's stopped paying attention to the things he watches. All he's doing is looking to make "jokes" about every scene. And his weird fake laughter at his own 'jokes' is just maximum cringe.
Yo you are a hater bro@@Mr.Ekshin
@@tlr1837 - And I suppose you're a lover. How bro-mantic.
@@Mr.Ekshin No. I am respectful and dont hate on people who just wanna entertain others and be themselves.
@@tlr1837 - You think he's "being himself"? Go watch his earliest reactions. He's become a bizarre caricature of himself.
If you remember back to the Avenged Svenbold reaction to "Life is but a dream" album, in Mattel they sing "Good afternoon, good evening and good night", that's a reference to the artificial world that is presented to Truman.
10,910 days is 29.89 years
I love your outlandish comments lol. And I loved watching this with you. I haven’t seen it in so long and I remember the feeling I got in the end, the jumping up and down and clapping was me too lol. I loved seeing someone else’s view for the first time
✈
.
.
.
.
👨🏽
seems like it went way over his head
3:49 Took me a while to realize this is the actor from 9-1-1
You would love Surfs Up! Chicken Joe is iconic. Please give it a view. RUclips deserves it!
Jim Carrey is known for his comedic roles like Bruce Almighty, The Grinch & Ace Ventura - to name a few - but I think he really shines through in his serious roles.
Alex is going to have to do a rewatch of this one 😂
I'd watch the reaction of him re-watching it, whilst being limited to the amount of words he can say (if possible)
0:57 'continue watching 6 minutes left'
If Alex didn't realize this took place on a closed set, how did he think the director was controlling the weather and ocean?
The editor's note at the end saying you talk too much.... it's very true. You missed SO much if you had just ya know.. not made s-xual comments every 2 seconds lol
HE NEEDS TO WATCH “CABLE GUY” NEXT!!!
Also considering how many times he said the phrase “Rat Race”, that is another movie he needs to watch! lol
Dude, you gotta spend more time paying attention and listening. You're missing details. They explained that he lived in a giant dome earlier in the movie.
Alex does make me laugh, clearly an educated man, married, but so brand new that he doesn’t have a clue. Especially this film, not picking up on any important details going on. I do enjoy watching his reactions but he does get a bit excited at times. Haha
Educated is definitely a stretch with how little he got of this easy to get movie
They called it back when the internet was in its infancy.
6:52 he has the exact same haircut in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
I couldn't believe that this guy didn't get all the clues about this town being an entire reality show, i'm so lost for words. There were so much advertisement and product placement being placed everywhere 😂 I guess the show really got to him too. That's the magic of the Truman Show right there, all real.
"You accept the reality in which you are presented."- This line (or something along these lines) was spoken by the director of the show in the film. It plays on the allegory of the cave idea in which if you are presented with false facts your entire life, and nothing comes along to counter said facts, then that is what you grow to believe is truth. If you were born and raised on an island, completely separated from all contact from the outside world, and the person or people that raise you, tell you "The sky is purple and the grass is gray." You would grow your entire life believing that the sky was purple and the grass was gray. You were presented with a reality in which color identification is swapped around. In Truman's case, all the deliberate advertisements by everyone he knows would be normal to him.
The thing about reality vs. facts is this. In isolation, all lies can be truth to an individual if that is what they know. It is REAL life experiences that lead to reasoning that leads you coming to an understanding of what is truth. Something like color names is a sociological truth invented by society so we can properly communicate and compare things of similar color. If you suddenly are integrated into society with the knowledge that the sky is purple and the grass is gray, then you will be corrected very quickly the moment you try to explain something of the same color as those two examples.
I love this channel because the editor's comments are half of the entertainment!!
Are they really? Holy shit you are very easily entertained 😂😂
Strangely enough, I feel like I get asked often “what if” we live in a simulation and my answer is always the same. I feel sorry for whomever is controlling my avatar because… damn. 😂 We arent losing but we ain’t winning either lmao
😂😂😂😂
I love Alex but this was a tough watch the first couple of minutes hahaha
Why do people say he talks too much, it’s the exact reason I watch him. I would just watch the movie if i don’t wanna hear him
I went to see this in the theater when I was 5 years old and LOVED it, my parents were blown away that I comprehended it lol
Sad part is, as a society we're pretty much back here now. Brand deals, sponsors, and people constantly broadcasting their kids lives on tiktok and youtube for a buck.
Unabomber and Truman Show... The Nostradamus'
As someone who feels alone a lot of the time, thank you for getting a fellow ADHD person a great place to feel no longer lonely x
I know what you mean, you and me both :)
I think it could also be seen as a coming of age metaphor. At the end he's saying goodbye to the "safe" environment his "father" built for him and he's going out in the real world