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I rewatched it the other day and it is a great ending. My first thought was that they could have cut to black when Truman walks through the door, but actually h
by zelos 3y ago
I rewatched it the other day and it is a great ending. My first thought was that they could have cut to black when Truman walks through the door, but actually having the last line as "what else is on?" is perfect IMHO.
- NovaDudely 3y agoConsidering the pace at which the attention moves on, it was an honest but savage mirror onto the viewers. And by comparison, the 90's was slow by today's standards. It is funny looking back at media from that era and seeing how there was this idea that things were already too hectic. Like in the early 90's Bart Simpson referring to the non-stop fast times they lived in. Vaguely related but another great one was the small doco "Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age" filmed in 1985, they are talking about how they cannot keep up with the pace of BBS boards. If only they knew what was coming. Also of note is this is one of the earliest recorded sightings of Richard Stallman, his message was very on point even then.
- Zanni 3y agoThis may blow your mind: Alvin Toffler wrote the book Future Shock [1] about the psychological effect of "too much change in too short a period of time" in 1970. That predates cell phones (1973), personal computers (1977), the web (1989), smart phones (2007) and modern AI (2022?) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock