Sometimes, although not often enough, Hollywood entertainment succeeds in (1)______ people to look at the world they’re living in, and to reflect on what is being done to them. In recent years most of these films have been (2)______ the media, in one guise or another, which is hardly surprising. Nor is the basic idea of The Truman Show exactly astonishing. You’d need to have been dead (3)______ the last 10 years not to understand that the commercial imperatives of the mass media have changed the relationship between information (4)______ entertainment in most people’s lives. But Peter Weir’s film is so cleverly (5)______ and brilliantly executed that it almost seems like a fresh thought. And even if it doesn’t, it nevertheless forms the basis of a very witty exercise.