Truman Show: Can We Really Receive The Truth?

In Peter Weir’s, 1998, film ‘The Truman Show’, an insurance salesman, Truman Burbank, discovers he is the star of a reality T.V show that is based around his life. Christof, the creator of the Truman Show, believes he has created the perfect world for Truman. But as the film progresses Christof’s world becomes more and more flawed for Truman, as Christof’s and Truman’s idea of a perfect utopia are both very different. Truman is stripped of his free will, as Christof manipulates his life through the actors depriving Truman of any real or honest interaction and because the world is fake Truman is trapped in the town of Seahaven unable to leave.

Truman's while life was a lie, just so people could watch him and decide what his life should be like.

It is believed that the people someone surrounds him/herself influence and shape them to become who they are and considering everyone around Truman is an actor, then even the person Truman became is controlled throughout the reality show. The director, Christof, chose to kill Truman’s ‘father’ while sailing to create a fear of the sea in him—despite Truman’s love for the sea and desire to be an explorer—so that he can never leave Seahaven, which is supposedly an island. His decisions and actions are guided by his fear, rather than his mind and heart. His life is dictated from the beginning, to how the actors as his parents had to raise him, the school and friends he had, to the woman who played his love interest and the desk-job he was assigned to. Truman’s unconsciousness to the real world and people around him took away whatever control he could’ve

Everything in Seahaven was operated by machines and computers. These computers were basically controlled my Christof's orders. Early in his life, Truman was traumatized by his father's death at sea. He grew up thinking it was his fault. Because of Christof's planning of the death, Truman was always scared of water. The only way off of Seahaven was by boat, therefore Christof knew he would be able to keep Truman under his control. Christof also did a good job of increasing his audience numbers. When viewers saw the heart-felt moment of Truman reuniting with his father years later, the number of viewers increased. Christof made the scene stand out by changing camera angles and playing background music. In addition, since Truman wanted to make his way to Fiji, Christof strategically planned different events in order to slow Truman down so he wouldn't leave the island. An example of this is when Truman went to purchase a plane ticket, but the flights were all sold out for over a month. Also, when the bus he was going to ride broke down. This proves that Christof manipulated Truman for his own purpose. Christof controlled everything in Truman's life from the weather to who Truman was going to spend his life with. All these points prove how Truman was being used for Christof's benefit; to increase the show's ratings and to gain an income.

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.

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.

Christof is a crucial example of the immorality which represented throughout the film to Truman in his daily life. During the television show, Christof continuously disregards the personal moments and individual feeling of Truman by presenting this to the viewers of the show. This is established when Christof organises the dramatic death of Truman's father, ending with Truman being traumatically scarred for life, just for the entertainment of the audience. This shows the

Niccol uses Truman Burbank's fear of water as a form of symbolism for Truman's isolation, not only the physical seclusion of the dome from the outside world but also his feeling of solitude from his friends and family in the world he thought was real. He, rightfully so, begins to feel like the whole world is against him and this makes him feel alone. In contrast, Sylvia began to symbolize truth. She was Truman's light at the end of the tunnel. She was the only real encounter in Truman's life, and this was huge because she was what motivated him to gather up the courage to search for the truth. His goal became to ultimately find Sylvia and run away with her to Fiji. This represents his

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 story about a man named Truman Burbank, a normal man that doesn’t realize his entire life is staged, fake and streaming live every moment of every day. Within the first few minutes of the movie starting you think everything is perfect in Truman’s fake world with is nice welcoming neighbors, friendly businessman and people around him. What you don’t know and realize is that Truman’s 1950’s utopia is scripted and controlled by another mini village of people behind the scenes of the world’s largest studio every built. Everything seems to be perfect for Truman, he has a successful job as an insurance sale mans with a sweetheart wife who is also a nurse and his best friend from childhood who loves to stop by at random time with a cold six pack in hand to help distract Truman and keep him on track. However, Truman is a smart man and slowly starts to see things out of place and puts things together, while he still doesn’t know he’s living in a studio he’s slowing realizing something just isn’t right. Than he begins his quest to answer his question and break out of

In fact, the story of Truman Burbank is small town boring, taking place on Seahaven, a diminutive island. Truman believes that he is an insurance broker with a loving wife, Meryl, a nice suburban home, and a best friend. Slowly through a series of unusual events, Truman becomes aware that this quiet, tame life is

Additionally, Throughout This Scene, We As The Viewers Can See Another 2 Different Aspects That Reinforces Truman’s Determination And Desire. As The Director Peter Wier Is Using The Use Of

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

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.

The sequence following the mirror scene shows what Truman’s normal day is like, with almost-scripted interactions with neighbours and other people he has conversations with, contrary to previously in the film, Truman, rather than other cast members, is keeping these communications normal, so as to not give hints to his audience of his plans of escape later that night. Each day is parallel to the next, and even if Truman isn’t scripted, unprecedented actions rarely happen. When Truman shatters the uniform structure of Seahaven later in the film, and this comes as a surprise to many people. Truman’s day consists of several indirect attempts to keep him in Seahaven, quite contrary to when Adam and Eve are sent out of Eden, and forced to stay out by a ‘flaming sword’. The efforts to keep him in Christof’s world include signing an insurance policy for work with Ron and Don, who decline Truman’s offer to go sign the papers the day they accept, but instead admit that ‘next week would be better’, further delaying his departure. In the office as Truman is having a conversation with a client, a new love interest is introduced, ‘This is Vivien’, Truman pauses, and the pair seem taken with each other even on their first