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  The Truman Show

   • j********o@***.com
     06/06/1998 00:00:000 UTC

     I really liked this movie no end, you know. Not as substantial as I
     expected,

     and the premise is a fairly slim conceit, so there are few surprises,
     but quite

     satisfying nonetheless. Not great, but inspirational. I found myself
     skipping

     out of the movie theater (of course, I neglected to sleep the night
     before) and

     I had a yen to punch someone out, not out of the usual rage, but just

     whimsically to throw off the script! The details are nice, like the town

     motto: "Unum pro Omnibus; Omnes pro Unum."

     Spoilers to follow separately.

     Gorno

     "Listen to the common cry:

     Have I become a living lie?

     You know the shape

     My breath will take

     Before I let it out..."

       • f*******e@***.com
         07/06/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         The premise of the movie has been done before. It was also used for
         an episode

         of the new Twilight Zone of the eighties.

         Jerry Katz

       • s******j@p*******.**o.com
         07/06/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         In article <1***************.********5@l*******.****.***l.com>,
         JohnGorno wrote:

         >I really liked this movie no end, you know. Not as substantial as I
         expected,

         >and the premise is a fairly slim conceit, so there are few
         surprises, but quite

         >satisfying nonetheless. Not great, but inspirational.

         That aboot sez it for me, too. Very nice.

         >I found myself skipping

         >out of the movie theater (of course, I neglected to sleep the night
         before) and

         >I had a yen to punch someone out, not out of the usual rage, but
         just

         >whimsically to throw off the script!

         "usual rage?" Oh, no! The clown head punching bag we got Gorno must
         have

         busted. Quick, break out the injector darts fulla lemon-lime prozac!

         The Philip Glass music was kind of jarring. I mean, it was nice and

         it fit, but I kept waiting for the children's chorus to break in and

         chant "Powaquattsi!"

         Stefan "Where Will It End?" Jones

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