You never had cameras inside my head…
My colleague Medb Ruane makes some interesting parallels between the 1998 movie The Truman Show and our modern predilection to ‘over-share’ online. It makes me think even more about how The Truman Show was ahead of its time in predicting how the media and technology was going to progress in the new century to such an extent that I really do believe that Peter Weir’s movie can legitimately make a claim to be the movie of the decade for the 1990s, if not the Noughties too.
Medb’s article from today’s Indo…
Jim Carrey’s character was prophetic in The Truman Show 12 years ago. The world was warned when the cynic Christof spoke the chilling truth: “We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.”
If the movie was remade for 2010, they’d have to fix the line. New technologies are forcing us to think twice about reality, whatever that is, especially now, when even Google Chief Eric Schmidt is warning the global online community about the dangers of “over-sharing”.
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