“Full of holes like fleshy Swiss cheese in a pool of ruby red fondue”
The panel of peril turn off their Elk Rotary lawnmower, crack open a Penn Pavel’s Beer and settle in to watch 1998’s The Truman Show. We then try to improve upon the villain’s diabolical plan for the honour of choosing next week’s film and hosting the pod.
The Truman Show was a bizarrely prescient satire released just before the first series of Big Brother in which Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) slowly comes to realise that he is the only real person in town, and town itself is construct too. Controlled by the God-like Christof (Ed Harris) can Truman escape his fictional life and reunite with his one true love (Natasha McElhone) in the real world?
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlnmQbPGuls
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Purchased at birth by a television conglomerate every friend and family member that Truman has ever known has been an actor. Being force-fed the white picket fence American Dream begins to rankle with him once strange things start happening like a spotlight falling from the sky. Just how far will he go to escape the dome that his town resides in? And will he survive in the attempt?
What did the panel think of this week’s movie? How in all that is holy can they improve upon the villain’s masterplan? And which evil schemer will be christened this week’s most diabolical?
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*Apologies for the slight audio glitches during the episode. It won't happen again (probably).
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