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The Truman Show introduces us to a man named Truman who is living a fake life, a life in which everything around him has been scripted out by a director of a television show. He was adopted at birth and raised inside a television studio that was made to resemble the real world. However, Truman is unaware that he has been the star of a television show since birth and thanks to free will, he continues to live life as a normal person. Meanwhile, the director, Christof attempts to control every aspect of Truman’s life as if to lead him to take certain actions and to think a certain way.

The media in American society has a major influential impact on the minds and beliefs of millions of people. Whether through the news, television shows, or film, the media acts as a huge database for knowledge and instruction. It is both an auditory and visual database that can press images and ideas into people's minds. Even if the individual has no prior exposure or knowledge to something, the media can project into people's minds and leave a lasting impression. Though obviously people are aware of what they are listening to or watching, thoughts and assumptions can drift into their minds without even realizing it. These thoughts that drift in are extremely influential. The massive impact it

The media has been able to manipulate people by making them believe what they say. One example that satirizes the media is a movie called The Truman show. Throughout the Truman show, the main character, Truman Burbank, is trapped in a stage set which he perceives as the real world. As he has lived there for around 30 years he starts to get the perception of being in a false environment. The media plays a big role in our lives as Truman is exposed to the corrupt side of them.

2. In the 21st century exposure to media is an everyday event for most of us. Even at the grocery store, we see magazines and newspapers with eye-catching headings that may not be true. Also, the news is everywhere, and with technology on the rise, we even get news alerts on our phones. The media has taken over society. Most of the stories we read about seem to be true but in reality, are they giving a true insight of what is actually happening? Some of the stories cause people to become blindfolded from reality. This is because the stories that people read or see have a profound impact on shaping our reality rather they are true or not. We see the news about events that are going on in the world; rather they are catastrophic events or devastating events that were done by humans.

However, because of some of the situations he encounters and sees, and with his curiosity and logic, Truman is able to work out something isn?t right about the world and manages to escape. Because it is a gradual realization, Truman doesn?t go mad as his make believe world unravels around him. As might be the case with Plato?s cave dwellers, as they are stepping into the light of the real world.

In the beginning, Director Weir showed us a series of interviews about how the actor and actress in Truman Show think about Truman Show. “Truman show is a lifestyle, a noble life… it is a truly blessed life,” (CORINNE, Boyanique. "The Truman Show: Quotes." , n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014.) and “It is all true, it is all real, nothing here is fake, it’s just really controlled.” These quotes indicate that everything in Truman Show is what normal people expect to have; the lifestyle is what people look forward to live in. In Christianity, people consider heaven as the most perfect place to live in. For the actors in Truman show, it is a real world controlled by Christof, while heaven is a real place that is controlled by God. Moreover, at the last scene, when Truman’s boat ran into the wall, Director Weir made the scene look like Truman is walking on the water. In the Bible, Peter walked on the water. ““Come,” he

Moreover, the media also influences our identities by creating stereotypes. Taking back to the television show 'The Simpsons', for example. Homer, the father, is stupid, lazy and fat. Marge, the wife, is always nagging him to do work. Lisa, the smart one, is unpopular at school, unlike her mischievous brother Bart, who gets to hang with the cool kids, who are all bullies. Because people see these stereotypes, they begin to make generalizations about other people. People also fall into these stereotypes because it is what society expects of them. These stereotypes created by the media take away our individualism and instead provide us with a common identity which to most of us seems to be the same.

     One problem that plagues us everyday without us even realizing it is media bias. We see it in the news. We see it on our favorite sitcoms. We read it everyday in the paper. Yet, we really don't recognize it when we hear it or see it. Media bias is evident in every aspect of the media, yet the problem is that we don't even recognize it when it is right in front of our faces. Are the impressions that we form about individuals a product of the media? Do we form certain opinions about particular types of people based solely on the things we see and hear in the media everyday without even realizing it? The problem is not only that there is media bias present, but also that we can't recognize it when we see

The media in American society has a major influential impact on the minds and beliefs of millions of people. Whether through the news, television shows, or film, the media acts as a huge database for knowledge and instruction. It is both an auditory and visual database that can press images and ideas into people's minds. Even if the individual has no prior exposure or knowledge to something, the media can project into people's minds and leave a lasting impression. Though obviously people are aware of what they are listening to or watching, thoughts and assumptions can drift into their minds without even realizing it. These thoughts that drift in are extremely influential. The massive impact

The power of these media highly influences a person’s perception of reality whether it's based of their own experiences or not. The more and more that a certain concept is exposed in media the more it impacts society, we see that when people are constantly exposed to an idea with themes and images, they begin to to internalize it and believe that this is how reality functions. This can be backed up by the way we perceive individuals without any past knowledge of their background. In class there was a test where you were to write down your first thought when the picture was shown, their background was shown later. This helps prove that through media certain traits of person or situation can translate into a certain

The final point being touched on is also another similarity between Plato’s Allegory and The Truman Show just like the plot, but this similarity is between both characters. It has already been discussed how Truman and the prisoner figured out the truth in the ending and how the setting in each of the works was different, but now the similarities in each of the characters alone will be talked about. “Their heads are held by the chains s that they must sit facing the back wall of the cave and cannot turn their heads to look up through the entrance behind them” (Stickney 11). This quote from Plato’s Allegory shows the mental effect on the prisoner and how he was trapped since childhood and the toll that it would have taken on him, and not only that but how his freedom was taken from him by the capturers who keep him chained in the cave and don’t let him go outside of it. An example about character from The Truman Show is when Truman lost all his rights of freedom the minuet he was born because Christop planned Truman’s entire future for him in a way by enclosing him in that dome on his set for his hit television series. This example proves that Truman had no choice he did not choose to make a show out of his life his freedom in a sense was stripped from him by keeping him in that fake world of illusion which

Another image that Peter Weir used in this film is the representation of Christof as the director or ‘creator’ of The Truman Show. Christof portrays himself as the man behind the show and once we are able to see through his tough exterior we can see that he is not a completely unsympathetic character but quite and conservative. Christof is a very powerful man and is portrayed as a god-like figure. This is shown through the image of individual versus society - as Truman the individual is constantly trying to break free from the control and strong hold of Christof who represents the society.

Due to the audience’s blind trust, the media has full control over them by manipulating information, making them perceive the world according to the

The media has become so powerful in today’s society that it has come to the point of controlling our daily lives. “We accept the reality of the world with which we’re represented. It’s as simple as that”. This was said by a character in the movie, The Truman Show that was released in 1998, distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Peter Weir, and includes stars such as Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Natasha McElhone and many more. There is a crucial need to criticize the media in order to explore the way something is presented and to be sure that we are thinking for ourselves because the media is not always accurate in its portrayal of facts.

In conclusion, The Truman Show showed the viewer one environment,but for different characters, it represented both a utopia and a dystopia. For Truman, the threat of constant surveillance led to his dystopia, while Christoff's ability to be fully in control of his “perfect” vision led to him enjoying his utopia. It really depends on how the viewer wants to look at it,who's to say that the TV show did not create a dystopia for the outside world, and who's to say that Seahaven really wasn't better than the outside world. Like Oliver Platt said, “Beauty is in the eyes of the