Analysis Of The Movie ' The Truman Show '

     In Peter Weir's film, The Truman Show, the ruling body directed by Christof, gains complete control over Truman's life since birth. The entire world has watched Truman grow up through the television screen while Truman believes that he is leading a normal life. Truman has no idea that other people are watching is every move, from sleeping, work, and all his personal daily duties. The director is afraid of separation from Truman and the actors that play the daily roles in Truman's life story. Christof is afraid that if one person

The reality of the world and the truth of it is questioned everyday, especially when something goes wrong. This is shown in the Truman show, when Truman finally starts to question the reality of the world and the truth of the people that surrounds him. So we need to ask to following questions to understand what the film is essentially about. Firstly, do we agree with the statement- We accept the reality of the world which we are presented? Secondly, what messages is the director trying to give us about modern society? Last of all, explain the part which the media plays in this and power and control it has over individuals? In this essay, I will discuss human nature, our controlling society and how they hide the truth, and the influence of

“We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented." through the individual experiences leading to the realisation of the truth, which they have to accept in order to move forward. This is explored in the ‘‘The Truman Show’ where director Peter Weir, displays an individual's discovery of their world’s reality. This is seen through the protagonist, Truman Burbank as he eventually figures out the truth overtime due to the build up of faults regarding the set and actors.

The Truman Show is centred on a man-made island called SeaHaven where a man named Truman Burbank has been televised without his knowledge since birth. The show is a 24 hour live tv show where every aspect of Truman’s life is shown. As Truman grows older he begins to notice unsual events that leads him to believe that there is something incongruent with what people are telling him and what he experiences in his day to day life. As Truman begins to test the boundaries he realizes that the town seems to revolve around him and his desire to escape comes to an all time high. Eventually Truman begins on a journey to escape his virtual reality. Despite the boundaries that the director throws at him he eventually escapes and will try to find his way in the real world. This movie made me sympathize for Truman being that he has no privacy and is oblivious to his lack of freedom. This movie shows how it is possible to create an “ideal” community and how New Urbanism can be created and maintained.

In the film “The Truman Show”, directed by Peter Weir, many techniques are strategically used to position the audience to respond emotionally to Truman Burbank. Techniques such as lighting, music, camera shots and angles are used in three specific scenes throughout the film co-ordinated by the shows director Christof. He uses these techniques to encourage the show’s audience to believe that what they are watching is unscripted and real.

The Truman Show, is a film starring Jim Carrey, directed by Peter Weir. The film revolves around Truman Burbank, who is the star of The Truman Show, the show within the film. The Truman show is a live stream of Truman's life, filmed by hidden camera's capturing his everyday movements. Truman is a key character in the film, who helped me to understand the important message of the film. Truman's developments during the film and the manipulation of him and his surrounding environments helped to understand how the media and big corporations have excessive power and control over society and people's opinions.

Utopia - A perfect world. Truman's world was an utopia. Everything, including the weather, was controlled in a huge Hollywood dome. Truman grew up having no idea he was being watched every hour of the day, and that every step he took was being viewed by millions all over the globe. As the show progressed, it became clear how much media influenced Truman's life, and also how Christof played a huge role in Truman's well-being.

Truman Burbank has been living a life of lies. Ever since he was born, every surrounding he sees is an illusion set up for the audience to watch. The people he interacts with, primarily his friends and families, are just actors used to represents Truman's life. Constantly, in order to prevent him from leaving Seahaven from discovering the truth, they made him hydrophobic. Primarily, because they do not have a big enough set for him to leave. Unexpected results begin to make Truman paranoid. Starting with, seeing a set behind an elevator, the car radio mentioning his every move, and even his own wife advertising to the audience which all Truman is unaware of. In order for Truman to escape this fake reality and live up to his full potential of becoming an explorer, he sets out to the ocean. From there, the director of the Truman show advises him to stay as it is safe and that he would get hurt in the real world. But not wanting live a life with a bunch of lies, Truman sets out to the unknown.

The film, The Truman Show (1998) is about the man named Truman Burbank, a first child who is legally adopted legally by the broadcasting company and been unknowingly publicizing his entire life as an entertaining show to the whole world. Although he lives in the world where everything is manipulated, at least for him, he is just like a normal man with own family, friends, and job. The difference between others and Truman lies on the taboo that Truman has attained through the traumatic event of losing his own father. His taboo is that he is incapable of living the city, Seahaven as leaving the city signifies knowing the truth of his life. The film majorly depicts the moment when Truman realized skepticism around his entire life and departs the journey to find the truth and real identity

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Truman Burbank is the star of a favored reality television show called “The Truman Show.” The show is a live feed of Truman’s life. Cameras continue to roll 24 hours a day, seven days a week, commercial free. The whole world tunes in to watch and over the years has developed a connection with Truman. However, Truman Burbank has no idea. He believes he lives in the town of Seahaven, a staged set on which he has remained his whole life. In " The Truman Show," Writer Andrew Niccol illustrates the theme of perception versus reality through the use of dramatic irony, pathos, and symbolism.

Peter Weir’s 1998 film, ‘The Truman show’ effectively manages to portray the message of audience manipulation both through the internal and external audiences of the show. This essay will be critically analyzing the techniques used to manipulate the audience in ‘The Truman Show”. Firstly, by analyzing the sound techniques, then by analyzing the camera shots used. Finally, by discussing how the symbolism used manages to successfully manipulate the audience’s views. There will now be three critical and analytical arguments supporting the statement that ‘The Truman Show’ manages to effectively manipulate the audience.

The Truman Show is a film which has been developed through a range of images. Peter Weir has creatively directed a film portraying the media and its impact on society. Within this film we see the effectiveness of techniques, which include camera angles, framing, shot types, camera movement, style of music, costuming and sequencing. By using a range of different techniques Weir is able to create emotive images and portray three different worlds to the audience.

However, his reality is now based on these objects vs. what is truly real. In Truman’s second phase he starts to believe that something is wrong with his world based also on his perception and his common sense. First, his father Kirk who had been written out of the show years earlier sneaks back onto the set. This sends Truman into a teenage flashback of his last moments with Lauren a girlfriend that had tried to tell him the truth before she was written off to Fiji. He also notices that the radio is following him around and people all around him are acting very strange. At this point he does not know what is wrong but he knows he is onto “something big” as he tells his “best friend” Marlon.

Which everyone can relate from their youth or wishing their society was that social norm even if those times have changed and evolved into what we have today. While these values and ideology are scripted and staged around Truman to him it’s his norm as strange as some of the choreographing may be. However the viewers of the show while may not be able to relate to his norm they do idolize Truman; wishing they could be part of his norm in which Truman has been socialized too. Truman is shows how even once injected with paranoia how we as a society have to discover the truth at any cost. Even how the product placement was injected into the Truman’s life as corny as it was; it was a necessary evil for the show to produce capital allowing for the show to