MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Truman Show, The (1998)

   Starring Jim Carey, this movie satirically documents the life of Truman
   Burbank, a man raised from boyhood by his corporate adoptive parent in
   a fictitious Hollywood, continuously-televised world where actors work
   to convince him of the legitimacy of his life and surroundings. The
   film correctly exposes the artificial nature of the media, and the
   decadence and delusion of the Amerikan populace. But it incorrectly
   portrays people blindly led by the media and ignores the possibility
   of an objective reality. The film incorrectly boils the world down
   to a simple dichotomy of the creator and the created, ignoring the
   ways people can be bought-off by those in power and thereby dictate,
   or remain complacent to, the actions of the oppressor...