lets goooo

wouldn't it be SO funny 😭

marlon is the worst, and sadest part of it all really, because truman suspects him early, but spends the most time trying to figure him out, i guess because who wants to admit their best friend is manipulating them? it's a hard thing to accept

how truman figures out people are involved is genius really, he uses product placement, the twins push him into a billboard every few days, marlon with his beer, his wife with first the kitchen gadget, then the elk rotary, and the last straw the cocodrink

the truman show is such a funny movie for how fucking manic horror inducing it is, to believe your whole life is being watched, to believe the people around you are acting

what makes this scene so hard is that he hasn't accepted yet that there are cameras in his house, and this is the exact scene he realises it

truman is in sales, he watches tv, he knows what product placement is, this is proven later in the film when he says the famous line "what the hell are you talking about? who are you talking too" he doesn't want to believe his wife is part of it, he knows, but doesn't want to accept it

the really fun question to ask is, how long did truman know?

the answer is since before the start of the movie, the film isn't about his realisation he's in a tv show, the movie is about figuring out who is involved and how much of his life is fake

he knew where the cameras were

his running is very interesting, he knows he's being watched, unfathomably, to a degree no human has ever been watched before outside of a prison, so then ask the following question:

how can a man watched by 5000 cameras escape a film set without being seen by any of them except for a single frame?

you can see that for truman, this is the exact moment he reailsing marlon is an actor, and while he enjoys the conversation from an outside sense, this is his last straw, if even marlon and his dad are in on it, then there is no one he can trust, and he has to run

for truman this is his true, lived reality, so to him, hearing marlon repeat himself so earnestly without realising it like this, in a beat for beat way, monologuing so unnaturally, takes him outside of the moment. you can see him remember every time marlon has talked in this pained, actorly way.

how in that moment, not even the moments directly proceeding it, but right then, he looks so distant and faraway. he's reliving the last time the actor playing his friend said these lines, lines being fed to marlon by a director, because marlon doesn't remember, he's just an actor

i've heard good things xdd

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