Peter Weir is an Australian director born in Sydney, 1944. Apart from The Truman Show, Weir directed “The Car That Ate Paris”, “Pinic At Hanging Rock”, “The Last Wave”, “Gallipoli”, “The Year of Living Dangerously”, “Witness”, Fearless”, “Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World” and more. Weir movies have its complex and moody dramas that usually focus on men. He is considered “solid” as a director in his native county and in Hollywood.
In one of the interview with Peter Weir, he talks about his inspiration of the film. Weir was influenced by popular American shows of the time like “I love Lucy” and “The Twillight Zone” when growing up.Peter Weir mentioned the death of Princess Diana in the interview as one of the bad side of paparazzi. He wants to create a movie that emotionly connect to the audience, let them join him in the imaginary world of the film.
“Less is More” is one of the thing I learnt and Weir learnt from film making. It is one of the most valuable and important lesson. This helps the audience in coming into the picture rather than knowing themselve “watching”.
Q: Do you see the film as modern-day Brave New World?
A: I think you can look at it that way. World domination by giant corporations with which the people are complicit. The walls of the prison are built by the very inmates.
In my personal opinion, Weir is trying to reveal more the truth of Televsion. “What we see is what we believe.” Television manipulate the real meaning the world between reality and what’s not. Modern society depend too much on television because part of everyday life, everyone is watching and again “What we see is what we believe” The question here really isn’t about believe or not, it is:
Source: http://www.fandango.com/peterweir/biographies/p116294 http://www.tipjar.com/dan/peterweir.htm http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=1593&s=interviews“Can we believe what we see on the screen?”
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