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

After touching upon the minor, less conceivable themes in the movie that included reality, religious icons, etc…the main and overall theme of The Truman Show must be acknowledged. The theme, life and the media, is the underlining theme for the movie. How does the media affect our life? And in turn, how do our lives affect the media? It is a vicious cycle, which undoubtedly is displayed in the motion picture. The television show, “The Truman Show,” at this time period when the movie takes place, had become a cherished item in the relation between the media and daily lives. Throughout the film, scenes with ordinary people in the bathtub, in bars or even old women in nursing homes, are shown to represent how the public/the viewers were captivated and moved by this mediocre television show. Truman Burbank is perceived to become another family member in many of the viewer’s homes; he is an essential aspect of their lives. These people are living their lives vicariously through Truman, as is

“From the network that never sleeps – broadcasting live and unedited 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, around the globe…with Truman Burbank as himself, taped in the worlds largest studio, one of only two man-made structures visible from space (the other being the Great Wall of China) comes the longest running documentary, soap opera in history, now in its 30th year – ‘The Truman Show’!”(Admire)

Although Truman is fundamentally the main character of the movie, if not for the character of Christof, the main themes of the movie would not have been touched upon. Christof, the director, producer and supervisor is essential to the overall themes of the movie, The Truman Show. Also known as “The Creator,” Christof takes on an image of God in the jest of the movie. “The members of his team – technical and non-technical alike – obey Christof, the director, almost blindly. They suspend their better moral judgment and succumb to his whims and to the brutal and vulgar aspects of his pervasive dishonesty and sadism.”(Vaknin) Christof’s overall projection of God is justified within

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.

comes up with material all the time, so that when you have a scene, there’s always a potential mine of detail that comes to life.”

Is Truman’s life actual life? If one was to consider all aspects they may reach the conclusion that, no Truman’s life is not actually life. He is living a life, but his life is in

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