The Truman Show/Heartwarming
- Everyday Truman is shown buying glamour magazines, and at first the viewer isn't told what they're for, but he keeps claiming that it's for his wife. Eventually the audience learns that he's using the faces of models to assemble a picture of Sylvia, the girl he wanted to marry back when he was young.
- Made even better with the implication that he's going to go find her in the end.
- Doubly so, since the last we see of Sylvia in the movie is her cheering when Truman escapes and running out of her house, implying that she's on her way to find him as well.
- And on that note: "In case I don't see ya... good afternoon, good evening, and... good night."
- An in-universe example which, on a meta-level, is something of a subversion or even a deconstruction: the scene where Truman reunites with his father is clearly supposed to be one of these for the viewing audience, and we see the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making this happen (music, camera angles, dialogue, etc). It works for most of the viewing audience, but then we see Sylvia watching in despair, and the effect is ruined as it becomes clear that this is just another cynical attempt to manipulate and control Truman and secure high ratings.
- They did screw up there, though: probably the reason why Truman had phobia to water was because he saw his "father" die there. Who's to say that recovering him didn't cure him of that?
- Mostly because curing a genuine, induced phobia is a little more complicated. A fear of spiders isn't cured by showing somebody how harmless spiders are, and a fear of stairs (mine) isn't cured by interacting with stairs. Such things include therapy, confrontation and more therapy and more confrontation and even then they aren't necesserily cured.
- Made even better with the implication that he's going to go find her in the end.