10 Sci-Fi Movies That Break The Genre

The Truman Show is not your usual dystopian, existentialist science fiction film with a social commentary, because (as the description would suggest) the majority of these kinds of films tend to take themselves quite seriously. The Truman Show really works as a film because of its more light-hearted approach to these kinds of themes.

The Truman Show is one of perhaps only a handful of science fiction films that have attempted to venture into comedic territory, and it does so incredibly successfully. The films light-heartedness actually manages to give the movie some serious heart. Jim Carrey is fantastic throughout and the story is engaging and thoroughly enjoyable.

The Truman Show even garnered several Oscar nominations, making it a stand-out among sci-fi, which is so often overlooked in that regard. It was, at the time, a science fiction film which presented itself unlike anything in the genre that had come before it. A fresh and funny science fiction film, filled with heart and emotion, The Truman Show was a never before seen look at what could be done with the sci-fi genre.