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The result was often charming, but the upbeat, go-for-it ending felt simple-minded.
The movie's simple-minded Tory-baiting "wears its bleeding heart conspicuously on its sleeve," says Stephen Holden in the New York Times . "You might feel like one of Thatcher's miners--manipulated, misled and maneuvered into an emotional corner," says John Anderson in the Los Angeles Times . The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane, however, praises the movie's feel for the British working class, "forced to sustain their flagging souls by quickness of wit."
Reviewers say director Peter Weir's comedy about Orwellian mind control and entertainment-age pop culture "nails the Zeitgeist " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Dissenters declare The Truman Show overhyped considering its clunky plot and simple-minded message, which boils down to "[E]ither you are a grotesque victim of the moguls or an unmitigated rebel" (Edward Rothstein, the New York Times ). (Click here for the official site and here for David Edestein's review in Slate .)
This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.
His volcanic rages don't have the put-on quality of post- Raging Bull Robert De Niro or the preening self-consciousness of Al Pacino; nor is he a simple-minded bully boy, like Harvey Keitel.