I am equally surprised, pleased and weirded out by the discovery that The Truman Show was partly inspired by the Philip K. Dick novel Time Out of Joint.
But the more I think about it, the more Truman's surreal experience of a reality so real and safe and perfect that it can't possible be real is pure PKD.
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I've just been re-reading PK Dick's short story Minority Report, which manages to pack enough paranoia into 40 pages as it's possible to pack. Every second sentence exposes someone as a fraud, or some form of malevolent force. That's what drugs will do to you, kids. Unless what he sees behind every curtain is true, of course, in which case. . . .I'm going to leave the room now, very slowly, and I'm not going to look back. Ever.
My favourite Philip K Dick is still The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I love this crazy idea of homesteaders on a colonised planet with their failed crops and failed lives escaping the bleakness of their existence by playing house with LSDs and Barbie and Ken homemaker kits* - more shades of The Truman Show?
* that and the psychologist in a suitcase.
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