The actual motion picture The Truman Show is based on a television show also entitled “The Truman Show.” “The Truman Show” is the life of Truman Burbank, an unwanted baby who was adopted by a large corporate television network so th

proved from their reaction to the final scenes of the movie when Truman’s life was on the balance. Old women gripped their pillows with Truman’s picture on them, when his life was at risk: celebration occurred when he finally beat the storm, which threatened his life. There is so much to be said on how this movie satires our relationship with the media today. Mark O’Hara, a critic of the movie quoted distinctly on several occasions about the relationship between the media and the viewers, and its portrayal in the movie. He stated, “it is a satire of American consciousness, a send-up of the voyeuristic media addicts we’ve become. We are reminded to hate ourselves in this film through pictures of Truman everywhere reminding us that we cannot live a perfect life. The products advertised throughout the film are self-reflexive winks reminding us of the ever-present products advertised within our lives.”

no way reality. It is false as stated before; every aspect of his life is false. In no way does that justify the fact that Truman is living a real life. During his years growing up in Seahaven, Truman is “lied to, cheated, deprived of his ability to make choices, controlled and manipulated by sinister, half-mad Shylocks.”(Vaknin) In order for Truman to lead a real life, he must break away from the system, which incorporates him in the false world; he must break away from Christof. Christof believes that he is not in any way hindering Truman or committing some kind of immoral act; he feels that what he has constructed for Truman is a “utopian world” one where he is free of choices and dilemmas.(Vaknin) He wants Truman to make decisions, not choices: to do so he attempts to influence his “preferences and predilections by providing him with an absolutely totalitarian, micro-controlled, repetitive environment. His world is constrained and limited – not his actions,”(Vaknin) therefore he is not living an actual life, only a falsity of that. When Truman breaks away from his constraints in Seahaven, he will then be actually living a real life.

Seahaven. In many ways viewers can look upon Seahaven and see a perfect world, as one may look upon the Garden of Eden and see the same. In both places the main characters of the places, the Garden of Eden having Adam and Eve & Seahaven having Truman, were provided for. They had everything that they could ever need at their fingertips, although this did not satisfy their innermost desires. In each place they were influenced by outside forces; the Garden of Eden had the Devil to urge Adam and Eve into corruption & Seahaven had Truman’s lost love that he yearned for. Each utopia had one divine ruler, which was an apparent similarity from the start. God was the ruler of the Garden of Eden; Christof was the ruler of Seahaven that in many ways resembled a godlike figure.

The entire production of the motion picture, The Truman Show, was extremely well done. The efforts of the cast and crew reflect off of the meaning and emotion that this film drives from everyone who views it. The controversy between media and its affect of the viewers will remain, but new aspects will be enlightened with thanks to the movie itself.

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