If we stick to the Greek origins of the most purist interpretation with its tragedies, comedies and satires, Jim Carrey could be the last heir to that lineage. In other words, less criticize good old Jim and more consider him a Sophocles of our days 😉
Overacting, histrionics, hyperbolic gesticulation... Jim Carrey displays all of this to play characters loaded with excesses of drama that, however, come to us with allegorical overtones when they are not mere entertainment comedies. If you want to know more about the vision of the current interpretation in Hollywood of Jim Carrey himself, you can take a look, here.
The point is to polarize performances to make each protagonist a distorting grotesque. But also to elucidate, in exaggeration, aspects that sometimes escape us. Because in Carrey's characters we find a point of general masquerade that we often discover today between posturing, falsehoods and other overacting where social networks are the final culmination of each one.
Top 3 Recommended Jim Carrey Movies
The Truman Show
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:I already talked about this movie when I put on the best of its director, Peter weir. Now it's time to stick to the character itself, to that Truman Burbank embodied by a Carrey who fits perfectly with the tragicomic notion at both ends of the interpretive range. Extremes, poles charged to the maximum by their fictional context until they manage to feel real.
Because life sometimes seems like that scenario plagued by hidden cameras that observe us once the circumstances become unreal, as if out of context, embedded in a déjá vù. Truman in front of his bathroom mirror before millions of viewers gives away a gesture for Reality television posterity that is his life from the very moment of his birth. The laughter then returns to a haunting grimace. Because an awakening of the character on which the entire stage pivots is guessed.
Carrey deals, between humor and confusion, with making us live in his unreal world, full of allegories and metaphors about what happens out here, on the other side of all fiction. The fears of the child clinging to the man unable to leave what was always his home and the creaking circumstances that cause his world to go off the rails.
Because little by little everyone is falling into falsehood. From his wife to his very mother. Even that best friend who would never betray him and reaching a delirious catharsis with the mistaken reappearance of his deceased father in the middle of the stage of his life...
Truman on the one hand. But on our part the taste for observing others to spit out all kinds of summary judgments. The stupidity of television, fast content, the irrelevance of what happens and is told to us on television as tragedies of our days...
The voice of his master. The director of Reality telling the characters what they have to say to Truman at all times. And subliminal advertising, like when Truman's wife looks into the camera and tries to sell us super-sharp kitchen knives. A hilarious film but also fascinating from many other angles.
man on the moon
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Biographies tend to repel me quite a bit. Except when it comes to revealing precisely the opposite of what this type of work usually deals with. The glories of the protagonist on duty always sound like vainglorious fiction. Until someone tells you a tragic story that is precisely disguised as comedy in its most external appearance. It could not be other than Jim Carrey who knew how to make these two poles of the humorist flooded by tragedy his own.
The film focuses on the career of American comedian Andy Kaufman, who sadly died in 1984 from lung cancer. Born in New York in 1949, he debuted in numerous “cabarets” in which he polished his techniques and style to become an extraordinary artist in every sense. In this way he earned the respect of each and every one of the individuals with whom he should interact to improve his socio-economic position, something fundamental in order to obtain the success that he craved so much since he was a child.
His rise to stardom and fame in the world of television came about thanks to the famous program “Saturday Night Live”, a show that boosted his professional career to become one of the funniest faces on the international scene. She is one of the stars of the “Taxi” series and provokes numerous reactions due to her original and peculiar representations, especially those that take place in New York's Carnegie Hall before thousands and thousands of spectators. Jim Carrey perfectly embodies the protagonist of this exciting story directed by Milos Forman.
Like God
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Many of us reproach God for how all this turned out for him. Perhaps it should have been a matter of trying to finish it in seven days... Jim Carrey was in charge in this movie, at the height of exaggeration, of disguising himself as God for a few days to "enjoy" the ability to make the world better for everyone... Morgan Freeman, the true Maker, just has to arm himself with patience to fix what Jim may leave at the end of the challenge...
Bruce Nolan, a reporter for a famous television station in Buffalo, is always in a bad mood. However, he has no reason for this grumpy attitude: he is highly respected in his work and has a very beautiful young woman, Grace, as a partner, who loves him and shares a flat with him. However, Bruce is unable to see the bright side of things.
After a particularly bad day, Bruce gives in to rage and helplessness and screams and defies God. Then the divine ear hears him and decides to take human form and go down to Earth to talk to him and discuss his attitude. Bruce is defiant before him, accusing him of having a very easy job, and God proposes a peculiar deal to the reporter: he will lend him all of his divine powers for a week and then they will both see if Bruce is capable of doing better than him. because it's so easy. Bruce does not hesitate for a second and accepts the deal, without realizing that, if he does not manage to be like God in truth, the Apocalypse could be unleashed...
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