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The Truman Show Research Paper

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“The Truman Show” is essentially about a man who’s a part of a Reality TV phenomenon that was live for the entire world, except Truman. The creators of the show recorded every part of his life since his birth. He was born into an assumed and controlled community with hired actors and hired people to be around him. His so called Wife (Laura Linney), Friend (Noah Emmerich) Mother and Father (Holland Taylor and Brain Delate) on screen are pretend. Hired actors remove cast members by killing them off, or relocating them out of the script, such as one of the cast member, his on-screen father, because essentially try to establish a fear. So basically what they do, they make him and his father go out into the surrounding waters and kill off his on-screen father by taking him into the water and making out he drowned. So that then creates a feared …show more content…

Universal experiences and falls into feelings that we as a human race feel all the time. We experience feelings that don’t seem right. We experience not fitting in and wanting to escape from the world (Like Truman in the fill). Truman suggested that the life he was living was fake. Truman then tries to escape by leaving town, but people control him and attempt to bring him back.
The Truman show is mainly based around ethics and morality. Truman is supposedly given a “perfect life” and “perfect everything”. Truman senses that things aren’t right and starts second guessing things. Truman goes out and finds out more about this world he’s living in even though he has a “perfect life”.
I can happily say that this film is very well written, it really allows us to engage immediately. It automatically brings us to Truman’s side and we automatic dislike everyone around him running the show and disagree with what they’ve done to Truman. Truman’s wife (Laura Linney) felt sympathetic for Truman, and felt that Truman should know the truth about his

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