Whether you enjoyed the film as a satire about television, a prescient warning about our surveillance society, or a religious allegory about man’s place in the universe, you had to agree that Carrey was pitch-perfect as the unwitting subject of a 24/7 reality show — funny when he needed to be, but restrained and effortlessly dramatic and poignant the rest of the time. Many viewers — and Carrey himself — felt he was robbed of an Oscar; indeed, he wasn’t even nominated.
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