FAVORITE MOVIE MINUTES
There are so many reasons to love this movie and literally every single scene is worthy of independent anaylsis and praise. Still, this moment when he first sees those green eyes in a closeup...a moment he's never forgotten. And he got those eyes just recently as one of the final puzzle pieces in the secret magazine portrait he was frankensteining... for what is likely a matter of years!!! that's why he smiles like that when he finally got the closest eyes yet in one of those "women's' magazines "for the wife!" Imagine how long it took him to spend all that time ripping out pieces of model's faces from who knows how many magazines, and a decade plus later, still searching for the last pieces...
Because he doesn't even have a picture of her. It moment of love was not recorded by him. He has been making this from memory. He has never stopped loving her. That completed picture of him gives him the courage to get out on that boat. When he opens the portrait to show it now looks like her actually, and then she sees him looking at it as she watches the show out in the world, is just too beautiful for words.
This movie moves me deeply. It's all in this scene. "How's it going to end?"
One the best endings in movie history. Her down the steps. Him out the door. And despite all the madness outside the dome, they will find each other again soon. Truman broke free and followed his heart... and those green eyes.
amidst a "fake" movie setup, this "unscripted" real moment was a solitary different moment in Truman's plotted out life.
This scene just makes me happy.
I don't feel enough Truman Show love in my life. Are you other Truman show lovers out there!?!?!