Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 13 | Nº 2

Volumen 13 - Nº 2

JULY 2022
July 2022 - Octuber 2022

Before Truman... and After

Abstract

There are two interesting antecedents to the film The Truman Show. One of them is "Special Service", an episode of the popular series The Twilight Zone. Andrew Niccol was inspired by this episode, respecting its plot core and multiplying its dramatic possibilities, with a different ending. The other precedent is the Spanish short film "You deserve it" ("Te lo mereces"), made in 1996 by Felipe Jiménez Luna. An examination of these short pieces that preceded The Truman Show in time allows us to analyze Niccol-Weir’s classic from an angle that presents ethical-analytical interest.

Keywords: The Truman Show | Cinema | TV Series

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Antes de Truman… y después

NOTAS

Omnivoyeur. Commentary on The Truman Show, by Peter Weir The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 1988 Eduardo Laso
The Truman Show: A Horizon in Bankruptcy The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 1988 Juan Jorge Michel Fariña
Truman and the Corporate Father The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 1988 Alvaro Fuentes Lenci
The landscapes of grief: spaces of loss on the Argentine coast Pinamar | Federico Godfrid | 2016 - Las olas | Natalia Dagatti | 2017 - Los miembros de la familia | Mateo Bendesky | 2019 Rocio Gordon
Psychoanalysis in Cinema and Theater The Reverse of the Message Between the Director and the Viewer as the Antithesis of Scientific Discourse Carlos Alexis Cabrera Kahuazango
The Cinematographic Origin of Colonialism in Haiti: Zombie Target White Zombie (La legión de los hombres sin alma) | Victor Halperin | 1932 Xavier Brito Alvarado, carrera de comunicación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato; Adriana Rodríguez Caguana, Programa Andino de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador, Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Políticas Universidad de Guayaquil; Diego Jadán, Profesor Universidad del Azuay
Desire, Existential, Aesthetic, and Philosophical Question Ese oscuro objeto del deseo | Luis Buñuel | 1977 Carlos Germán Juliao Vargas
The use of cinema as a passer of the real in the documentary film “Lemebel” Lemebel | Joanna Reposi | 2019 Isabel Reyes Mosqueira
The Total Art of Eisenstein: The Ideology Behind The old and the New Lo viejo y lo nuevo | Sergei Eisenstein | 1929 Tomás Viera

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Before Truman... and After

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