Blog Entry 10: A 2 Paragraph Summary of Plot of "T S"

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This is intended to help you remember what happens in "The Truman Show."

Write a two paragraph summary of the plot of "The Truman Show."

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“The Truman Show” is a movie that depending on how you look at it can be seen as being extremely disturbing. The movie centers on a man who was adopted by a television station and his entire life is made into a reality television show without his knowledge. He lives a perfect life in a perfect small town where everyone is happy and cheerful and content with whatever life it is that they lead. All of his friends and family are paid actors and actresses who are living in this world as their job, and yet he doesn’t know any of this. The television show is aired 24 hours a day, seven days a week and many people out in the real world are addicted to it and are routing for Truman every hour of ever day.

Truman lives the majority of his life not suspecting anything. It isn’t until he has been married for a few years that he begins to get antsy. He dreams of finding a girl from High School who was taken away in a peculiar way and who’s family apparently moved to Fiji. Strange things begin to happen that make him believe that there is something fishy going on and that the world is revolving around him. A stage light falls from the sky, he realizes that many things happen at the same time every single day; the same people say the exact same things. Then when he decides that he wants to leave his perfect city and move away many obstacles are placed in his path such as broken down bus, sudden traffic, fire on the bridge, etc. He realizes that something is definitely not right when his wife suddenly does a product ad in the middle of their conversation and then screams for help when he turns on her. His wife then leaves the show after that fight and Truman moves to the basement. In the basement is where he sets up pillows to look like himself in his bed and then escapes the watchful eye of the camera. He almost escapes on a boat until the cameras once again find him and he finds himself caught in a deadly storm. But he survives this as well and sails straight into the set, where he ends up speaking with the creator of the show and choosing to walk into the real world instead of sailing back to his safe, perfect world.

In the movie, The Truman Show, Truman (the main character) is a living a life where everything around him is fake and acted. He lives in an area where the buildings, people, environment, wife, and even his childhood friends are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world, which is also called the Truman Show. Truman is the main character also in the movie and is a big star. Ever since he was born, he was surrounded by hidden cameras everywhere and he has never experienced anything “real”. Truman’s life is filmed 24 hours a day to show the reality of everyday life style that the director, Christof, in the movie wants to show to the real world. Christof in this case is the most essential aspect of Truman’s life because he controls everything around him, the people, weather, radio, etc. Truman however believes to be living as an average ordinary man with a job, a wife, and life later finding out that everything and everyone is being repetitive and nothing seems to be true. As the story continues, he finds out that his daily life and his routine are somehow being watched by others. He especially finds things questionable when he accidentally sees the backstage area of his work place where he sees camera men.

As things start to unravel, Truman questions his wife Meryl and his friend about how he thinks his life is being watched by someone. When his father reappears after the boat accident in which Truman believed that he had passed away, Truman starts to wonder about his life and skepticism grows even more when his wife, Meryl, starts acting like a “commercial ad”. When Meryl leaves him, Truman isolates himself in the basement and makes an escape that no one behind the scene notices until Christof finally calls everyone to search for him. As people on the set were trying to search for him, Truman was on the boat sailing on the ocean desperate to get away from the town he was at. As he finally makes it to the end, he realizes that the scenery around him were just mere wall paints. As he climbs up the stairs to the “exit” door, he tells the viewers and Christof, "In case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night," and steps out into the real world, escaping the fake.

The movie The Truman Show is about a man, Truman, whose entire life has been created and manipulated by the producer of a television show: The Truman Show. Since Truman was adopted as a child by the network, he is the star of the show, and lives his life as though everything he does is real. In actuality, the town is man made within a large dome and everyone he encounters is an actor on the show. The producer speaks to the actors and occasionally feeds them lines to keep the plot interesting. After falling in love with an extra on the show, and through technical malfunctions on the set, Truman develops an interest in learning about world outside of his “home-town”. He begins to notice a conscious struggle of his peers to keep him within the boundaries of the town, which therefore increases his curiosity. When reviving his “father” from the dead and a dangerous storm does not curb Truman’s determination, Truman reaches the end of the set and finds the door to the real world.
This movie exemplifies the power that media has over people’s lives. The message is that everyone lives within that man-made television set and the media is manipulating us all to act as it pleases. The actors represent different media sources and Truman represents the general population, in the hopes that one day we will be able to break free from our conformity. Though this movie was created in 1998, the message still applies today, proving that we have not yet found the door to the outside world

“The Truman Show” is a movie about a reality TV show in which the main character, Truman Burbank, does not know he is in. Truman was born onto the set and grew up living a normal life, with everything around him being set up. The people were all actors, and the set was the size of a small country, making it seem like a real city. The most bizarre thing about his life was that everything was advertised. The only way the show made money was through the stuff they sold from it. When his wife would make him something like coffee, she would tell him all the details about it, making it much like an actual advertisement. Truman eventually grew aware that this synthetic city he lived in revolved around his every actions. He noticed the everyday rituals including when certain cars or people went by his house and saw that things were very fake. There is a particular seen when he walks into a different building and sees that the elevator turns into the back of set where the actors can take a break. There were also several occasions that made him want to him to find the truth, like when a stranger said his name. One of the greatest moments in the movie was when he met up with his father, thinking that he had passed away when he was a child. Truman knew there was an interesting reason why he suddenly cam back. Realizing that there was something weird about his life, he wanted to break free and tried numerous times to go to Fiji in search of his true love that he met in high school. Truman eventually faced his fear of the water and sailed away from the town. After numerous attempts from the director and producers or the reality TV show to try to make him turn back, Truman made it to the edge of the magnanimous set and made it to the real world.
This movie was very odd but very cool. It showed that one could have a synthetic life through the world around you being dominated by advertisement and fake people. It makes you think what is fake in our lives. Are people being genuine or are they acting differently for their own motives? Sometimes when life gets tough, I think a joke might be being played on me, and I’m waiting for someone to tell me that this was all just a test of my perseverance!

The Truman Show" begins with us seeing a typical day in the life of Truman Burbank, whose life is secretly being filmed and broadcast worldwide 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The day begins with a set light falling onto the street, but the radio plays it off as if it were from an airplane losing parts. Truman goes through a few days of normalcy where he gardens, and does various other traditional household chores. One day on his way to work, Truman sees his father, who supposably drown at sea, but the man is pushed onto a bus and Truman begins to suspect that something is up. Following that incident, Truman hears a radio broadcast of his drive to work and begins to question why Seahaven seems to revolve around him. After deciding he is going to go to Fiji to find his lost love, Lauren, Truman encounters many mysterious circumstances preventing him from leaving his island home. Truman returns home, but questions why his wife uses product placement during their casual conversations, and turns on her causing the actress who plays his wife to leave the show.
After his wife leaves him, Truman begins spending more and more time in the basement until one night he escapes the camera's watchful eye. The show's transmission is suspended for the first time in show history as the whole town of Seahaven begins searching for him. The shows director, Christof, turns it back to day and finally finds him sailing out at sea, an unexpected turn of events since he is afraid of water. Christof orders a storm and tries to make Truman turn around, but Truman pushes on and finally Christof gives up. Truman finally hits the wall and it is obvious to Christof that even though they did everything they could to kill his desire to leave the island, they had failed. In a final attempt to get Truman to stay, Christof gets on an incredibly loud speaker system and tries to reason with Truman, telling him that "the world is a sick place" and "we accept the reality of the world which is presented". Truman replies with his classic "In case I don't see ya...good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight." and walks through the exit door into the real world.

The “Truman Show” is a movie about a man, Truman Burbank, who has been living his whole life secretly being taped and starring in his own kind of reality show. Everything revolves around him and everyone he knows and everyone around him is an actor. Truman’s hometown, Seahaven, is really a set that is built inside a large dome. The movie opens with a scene of a light from the set falling from above. In order to get the suspicion out of Truman’s head as to what this light was they made a radio broadcast saying that pieces of an airplane have been falling out of the sky. The people in charge of the movie do everything they can to keep this fake reality together. The producer, Christof, is in charge of everything that happens in Seahaven including weather, and people. He has even made ways of keeping Truman from wanting to explore outside of Seahaven by making him scared of water by making him believe his father was in a boating accident. He also stresses the dangers of traveling through news reports and television shows.
During the 30th year of the shows airing Truman starts to suspect things are weird more and more often. He starts to realize how the whole town revolves around him and his marriage soon starts to fall apart. After this he tries to leave Seahaven but can never actually pull it off because the producer has found ways to make flights and bus rides impossible. This leads Truman to stay isolated in his basement. Then one night he sneaks out and the producer decides he must suspend broadcasting until they find Truman. When they find him he has overcome his fear of water and is sailing a boat. They try to make a huge storm to crash the boat but Truman overcomes this and his boat makes it to the edge of the dome. He reaches an exit sign and the producer tries to persuade him not to leave over a loud speaker but he does anyways saying his famous catch phrase.

In "The Truman Show," main character Truman, lives a life in the fake town of Seahaven. He is surrounded by "friends and family" that are actually paid actors and actresses, actually the whole entire town is fake too. The thing is, he has no idea. Truman grew up as a star unaware of his fame; his whole life is broadcasted on television around the world. His life was predetermined, everything from his dad's fake death, the woman he would marry, his job, the list goes on and on.

The antagonist of the story is a producer who came up with this horrible idea. He controls everyone in the town by ear pieces, telling them what to say. Since this television show is 24 hours he advertises in it by having the wife promote products that she is feeding to Truman or using around the house.

It is not until he wants to go to Fiji, to meet the real love of his life, that he finds out the secret of the town. Then as he starts to figure out just exactly what is going on he makes an escape on a boat (and he is terrified of water because that is how his father "died.") The producer tries to stop him by creating a storm, but that does not stop Truman from leaving. The movie ends by Truman reaching the end of the fake town and his love running to find him; they will live happily in the real world.

"The Truman Show" is a film about a man who is in search for the truth about life. He lives in Seahaven, a set for a television show that is aired 24 hours a day, and everyone he knows, trusts and lives with are actors within this show. Truman, is clueless about the fake reality of his life, until his attempts to find freedom and truth lead him no where and it appears that everyone and everything prevents him from reaching the truth about himself and the world he lives in. Small incidents lead Truman to suspect that the world he lives in revolves around him, literally. He realizes that he is a prisoner within the island physically and psychologically. His fear of the water, because of a traumatizing childhood experience, is his main locked gate that prevents him from gaining his freedom.
When Truman finally realizes that he is being watched and everyone he knows can not be trusted he overcomes his fear of the water and sails away to discover the truth. Through emotional and physical struggle he overcomes all the obstacles that fall on his path and reaches the end of the set, a set of the city and a set of his life. And when he does find out that he was on television all of his life he replies to everyone who is watching him with his golden phrase and leaves the fake world behind.
This was a very emotional and thoughtful film. It made me realize that today we are all just like Truman himself. We are still throughly controlled, identified, lied to and acted in front of during our lives. People are still largely influenced by media and advertising; they act in different ways in front of each other than they feel inside; they believe they have total freedom, but are actually watched and identified by technological methods. We do not control our lives any more than Truman did in Seahaven and we still have not found a way to leave our fake world behind.

The Truman Show is the story of a TV show viewing the controlled life of Truman Burbank 24/7. Everything and everyone surrounding Truman is strategically planned, from his wife and best friend to the ocean and the daylight, by the “architect”, Christof. Christof plays the role of a god, monitoring and guiding Truman’s every move from up above in the artificial moon. Because the entertainment mogul, Omnicam, adopted Truman as a baby, he has no idea everything around him is fictitious.

Product placement by the people in Truman’s life is what keeps the show running. Whether his best friend is selling beer while they are fishing or his wife selling cocoa beans, advertisements are continuously aired. Even before Truman begins to realize that his world may not be what he thinks it is, his behavior is somewhat phony and repetitious. Every day before he leaves for works he shouts to his neighbors, “If I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!” Overall the Truman Show portrays the search for a man’s true self.

Truman show starts off with an average Joe man, living an average life except for one thing: the world seem to revolve around him. Although to him, the truth about his world is not yet known to him, he will soon embark on a journey that will change everything he ever knew to be true in his world. Truman is a middle age man probably in his early thirty’s or late twenties. Throughout his whole life there have been odd instances that occurred that could have revealed the truth about the life that he was living. However he chose to ignore these instances and continued with his life as usual. Then one day, the dad that he thought was dead came back and was dressed as a homeless. As soon as Truman realized who the man was, the homeless man was seized by random people on the street and put on a bus to be taken away. In an effort to save his father, Truman runs after the bus only to be blocked by several obstacles. This event sparks a realization for Truman that something isn’t right with the world he is living in. He begins to notice all the odd coincident that occur in his life and recollects several clues from his path. He realizes the restraints that are placed on him, such as getting off the island. Eventually he realizes that there is something very wrong with the place he lives in and it almost seems like the world is revolving around him.
Besides the event with his dad, another very important influence in Truman’s life was his short but sweet relationship with Sylvia, also known as Lauren. Sylvia attempts to inform Truman about the falsities of the world in which he lived in, but she was taken away, supposedly to Fiji. This was an event that occurred during his high school years and continued to remember her throughout his adulthood. Throughout the movie, Truman biggest goal is to get off the island and go to Fiji to find Sylvia. Truman, with considerable difficulty, does eventually make it off the island, only to learn that he was living in a dome isolated from the world and yet being watched by everyone at the same time. Truman finds an exit door and decides to leave, entering an unknown world.

The Truman Show is a movie starring Jim Carey as Truman Burbank, a seemingly average insurance salesman living in a town called Seahaven. Truman's life is going pretty well; he has a house with his beautiful wife and together they are planning to try having children soon. Yet, problems begin to arise when a spotlight suddenly falls from the sky. Truman is puzzled, but as the film progresses we see that odd occurrences in Seahaven are always quickly explained away by radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and friendly conversation. The next example of this occurs when Truman comes across a man dressed as a bum on the streets whom he swears is his dead father. The man is swept away and the situation hushed, but Truman's uneasiness with his reality has now grown into full-fledged paranoia. He makes several attempts at leaving the island where he has spent his entire life, by bus, by plane, and by boat but nothing seems to work.
At the same time that he is making these attempts, we are introduced to the woman he once truly fell in love with, Sylvia. We learn that Sylvia has been a secret obsession for Truman for many years, ever since she sneaked him past the cameras that cover his world to kiss him by the ocean. She was promptly taken away from Truman in order to prevent his finding out the truth about his life, the fact that everything in his reality has been fabricated and aired live as a reality TV show. While we are learning of Truman's love for Sylvia he makes one final try at an escape and this time succeeds. Truman vanishes from the view of the cameras, and when they finally catch up to him, he is sailing away from Seahaven. The creator of the show makes a huge storm in an effort to stop his leaving the world of the show. However, Truman is unswayed, and in the end he finds a door on the horizon through which he makes his dramatic exit into the real world.

In The Truman Show, the American viewing public enjoys watching the everyday life of Truman Burbank, a man whose life is completely fabricated by an insane Ed Harris. Since his birth, Truman was raised in the model town of Seahaven, a perfect and safe model community in Florida. Every interaction Truman has with his friends and family (all actors) is orchestrated by Ed Harris and his writing staff who simply seek to put on an entertaining show. Truman is completely oblivious to the fact that his life is a complete illusion, but he has a deep, psychological discontent and suspicion with his circumstances, manifested in his desire to pursue a lost love to Fiji.

Eventually Truman begins to unravel the facade that has been lain before him. He deliberately tests his surroundings and attempts to escape, eventually succeeding by boat. In spite of crazy Ed Harris, who rationalizes his actions at every opportunity, Truman voluntarily leaves his fabricated home town and ventures off into the real world, where he is a national celebrity. Truman's journey is ultimately about the search for emotional truth in a world of illusion and superficiality.

The “Truman Show” is about a person named Truman Burbank living his life. He does not know that his life is a reality show that the whole real world watches. Every day he would say hi to everyone and be extremely kind to them. He is married, has a best friend, and works in an insecure insurance company. His whole life, Truman was scared of water because when he was younger, his dad drowned in front of him in the ocean. Truman had asked his dad to continue sailing even though his dad thought it was a bad idea. He watched his father die that day and could not stop feeling guilty for it ever since. One day, as Truman did his usual walk toward work, he saw his dad as a homeless man. As he tried to approach him, some guys reached his father first and threw him onto a bus. Many things began to become very confusing since that day. As he was driving his car to work, he heard the radio talking about every move that he was making. Truman became more suspicious of what was going on around him and began paying more attention to the minor details of his life.
Truman begins to realize that the people he knows are acting really strange and he begins to feel like he is being watched. He remembered the time he met his first love and that she was taken away from him. Silvia was trying to tell him that his whole life is a reality show and none of it was true. However a man who pretended to be her father told him that she says that to all her boyfriends. Nevertheless, this time Truman began believing what she had told him. He tried to talk to his wife and best friend about it but they continually told him that he is acting very strange and whatever he was saying was not making any sense. So he decided he had to prove himself. He does many stunts and realizes that he is actually being watched. Truman attempted to leave the island making his wife drive the car over the water because that was the one fear he had. However some guys farther down in the road caught him and brought them back home. Truman figures out that his wife is also a part of whatever was going on and threatens her, leading her to leave him. Finally, Truman figures out a way to escape the camera and goes in search of his first true love, Silvia in Figi. He has to face his fear of the water and when he sails his boat across the town. Chistof, the director of the “Truman Show” commanded his producers to make a deathly storm, which Truman ended up surviving. Finally Truman reached the end of the town and Christof began speaking to him, explaining to him everything. He was trying to convince Truman that the real world has so many problems and is a sick place, and that the world he created for him is perfect. Truman responds to Christof and ends the show telling everyone "In case I don't see ya...good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight." and walks through the exit door into the real world.

"The Truman Show" is a film about reality and control. Truman Burbank is the biggest star in a television show which is broadcast 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 30 years. The catch is Truman does not know he is in a television show. Truman and his emotions are real because the show is his life. But he is surrounded by actors and props. The beginning of the movie shows Truman living his life in a basic routine with work and chores around the house and his super happy wife who does product placement ads throughout the movie. Little weird occurrences like a light falling from the sky are covered up so that Truman doesn't discover the truth.
Throughout the movie more odd things happen. Truman sees his dad as a homeless person, his dad who was supposed to be dead due to an accident at sea. This begins a series of events that leads to Truman questioning and testing his environment. Truman appears to be going crazy to everyone but he is realizing that everyone seems to be involved in a plot revolving around himself. Truman attempts to go to Fiji and confronts his wife for despising him. He finally ends up escaping with hopes of finding his long lost love Sylvia as his inspiration. Truman sails to the edge of his bubble surviving a storm that the director Cristof created in an attempt to keep Truman in his world. In the end Truman leaves denying Cristof the continuation of his show.

The Truman Show is a film about the life of an insurance salesman, Truman Burbank, who seems to live in a perfect little world. What he does not realize is that he is actually the star of a television show that airs 24/7. As the movie progresses Truman becomes more and more aware that something is not right in his perfect little world. He begins to question the reality of his life and the people around him. Feeling guilt over the supposed death of his father, Truman develops a fear of the ocean. This fear, in addition to the stealthy workings of the show’s creator, keeps Truman in Seahaven.

When Truman was younger, one of the casts, Sylvia, reveals to him that his life was not real. But he was not able to make sense of what she was saying before she was removed from the show. Truman eventually grows a sense of wanderlust. He most wanted to go to Fiji to find Sylvia. All attempts Truman makes to leave Seahaven are foiled by the show’s creator and casts member. In a last ditch effort to escape from Seahaven, Truman sails into the ocean where he is met with an artificial storm that buffets his tiny ship. But Truman is determined to find out the truth of his too perfect life and he continues to sail forward. He then hits a sky painted wall and finds a mysterious door marked “exit.” The show’s creator tries to reason with Truman to stay, claiming that the real world is just as fake as the world in which Truman has lived. But Truman, yearning for freedom and reality, takes a bow and makes his exit.

The movie centers around Truman. A man approaching middle age, living the "American Dream" of house, home, family, and flapjacks. He has a wife, a job as an insurance salesman, a best friend since his childhood and a hometown as pleasant as they come. However, this benign life is not the world the rest of us are forced to live in, but is instead the set of an enormous television show, in which Truman is the star. The creator watches over every aspect of Truman's life, shaping his decisions, molding the perfect story, shot by shot, hoping to show the world the average man, showing the lukewarm life of normalcy, as Truman lives day to day in an endless cycle, unbeknownst to the ritual and plan his day has been given.
This begins to change however as Truman begins to feel the need to leave. He begins to notice the cracks at the seams that the Director cannot directly control. Truman begins to notice the smaller incidents that clue him in to the fact that he is trapped, that his choices are not ultimately his own. At one point he's trying to escape to Atlantic City and his wife Maryl asks "Why would you want to go there?" and he proceeds to answer "Because I've never been! Isn't that why people travel?." He begins to question whether he has free choice or not, whether what he does matters, or whether it all just coincides with the cycle of normalcy and protection that he has been forced into. The director eventually loses Truman, only to find him attempting to escape once again. He says "If Truman wished to know the truth, not just a vague desire, but really wished to discover the truth about his world, there would be nothing we could do to stop him," and in this respect, the director is questioning Truman's will, truman's desire to escape. Truman proves resilient and just as he is going to escape his reality and enter what is the absolute unknown to him, he is confronted by the creator, which can only be described as my favorite end to a movie ever. Truman ultimately chooses to leave, chooses freedom, and free will despite the danger and depravity present in the world he's about to enter. He chooses freedom over protection, the Truth over then lie.
Too me this is all about questioning the American Dream, and whether or not free will truly exists within it or not. Peter Weir, the director of this film, is all about challenging modern perception, and whether modernity directly contrasts human nature, and the need for free will. i love this film. it's been in my top 3 since i was like 9 years old. im so glad we're getting to write on it

by the way, i would love to have been able to have seen this film entirely from Truman's perspective, with no inkling of what was going on, of what the Truth was, just so that i could have seen that wall, that staircase, and that door, with the little words saying exit the way he did. I love how the film is made, and there's a lot more to say when it's done in that omnipotent view point, but deep down, a part of me wants to have seen what truman saw, seeing his reality degrade as it did. In truth, I just would have liked to see that gaping black, doorway shaped hole in what had always been the sky. It's so unfathomable.

“The Truman Show” is a movie based on Truman Burbank’s life which is being filmed twenty four hours a day. Apparently his “life” is fake. His friends, mother, father, wife, and everyone else who make up the city are all actors who take part of a television show. Truman lives a happy life without problems without realizing that he is part of a reality TV show. Everything in this little city seems pretty normal to Truman therefore he never questions the abnormalities of his life. The movie makes Truman seem like a person who is oblivious to his surroundings, innocent, and child-like. Even his wife says “you are talking like a teenager.” I feel that this shows they expect him to stay unconscious of what is going on. If he was to talk like an adult perhaps, he would not be taken advantage of. They do not allow him to grow and explore like he mentions throughout the film. Every time he mentions that he wants to be an explorer, the actors change the conversation. This shows that by him wanting to explore, it could cause some problems to the reality show.
His creator at some points in the movie mentions that if Truman really wants to get out of the reality tv show he could do so, but every time he tried to, there was an obstacle that stopped him. They impeded him to leave because they knew that if Truman left, that was the end of their show. In his late twenties, Truman begins to open his eyes and becomes aware of some abnormalities of his life. He starts to question things and wants to find out more about them. “Weird” things begin to occur. For example, when it rains just on him, when his father is taken by a business man and a woman, when he realizes he is being followed while driving his car, when he sees the people behind the “elevator”, and so forth. He begins to realize they all have been lying to him. At the end he is able to conquer his fear of the sea and he exits the tv reality show entering an unknown world.

The Truman Show is about a man named Truman Burbank who lives a fake life. Truman believes he lives a normal life, with normal friends, and a normal job. However, all of the people around him are actors videotaping his every move. Truman’s world is an isolated Hollywood Set. Truman’s life is secretly documented and then aired on Television as the most popular show-The Truman Show. Truman’s life is a constantly being watched by millions.
Throughout the movie, Truman realizes that he wants to break out of his isolated area and explore the world. As he tries to break out, he begins realizing that something Is not normal. There are roadblocks at all exists because the actors are trying to prevent Truman’s departure and because his departure will mean the end of a heavy income from the producer, his father, and also, the end of what millions of people have been watching for thirty years. However, Truman stays focus and overcomes his fear of water in order to escape the bubble he is trapped in.

In the movie "The Truman Show" Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, a seemingly average middle class man living in a quaint neighborhood, who also happens to be the star of his own reality show. A production company adopted Truman as a baby and forged a completely false livelihood to be documented and aired on television twenty-four/seven, all to the ignorance of Truman himself. The pleasant neighborhood in which Truman lives in is simply one huge set. The wife he's married to, the friends he believes to have had since childhood, and all other residents of the town are in fact paid actors. The producer of the company directs all aspects of the town to ensure Truman's life goes accordingly. He even stages the death of Truman's father in a boating accident to instill a fear of water in Truman so that he would never venture outside of the set.

Truman is blissfully unaware that his whole life is staged and nationally televised for the better part of his life. As an adult however, he finally begins to realize some weird things taking place such as the his wife's behavior in advertising cocoa to him (which is necessary to keep the reality show running since it has no commercials). He also starts to see that the whole town seems to be centered around him, which is made clear by the sudden rush of traffic blockading him from exiting the town just as he was trying to make an escape. Truman tries to plan a trip to Fiji, but with little success, and once he is absolutely fed up with all the nonsense occurring in his town he knows overcoming his fear of water is the only way out. When Truman finally makes his escape, boating through a violent, and of course staged storm, he runs into the end of the set. The producer then speaks with Truman and gives him a choice to stay in this peaceful and safe town of his, or to leave and be left to fend for himself in the dangerous, real world. Truman then bravely exits the set and heads into reality.


The “Truman Show,” starring Jim Carrey, begins by following the daily life of a man named Truman. His life on the ‘island,’ Seahaven, seems overly simple at the beginning of the film, almost like a manifestation of the ‘American Dream.’ It soon becomes apparent that this life is actually fabricated and, unbeknownst to Truman, he is actually the star of a reality show that has been following his life since his birth. His life is ultimately controlled by the producer, director, and writers of the show. In a flashback we can see that in high school when he fell in love with one of the actresses named Sylvia, who was not following the script and tried to tell him that his life wasn’t real, she was hustled away, supposedly to Fiji, leaving Truman confused and alone. He eventually married the actress he was supposed to, whose character is named Meryl, and they lead a rather uninteresting life together in Seahaven, but Truman doesn’t forget Sylvia.

Although, Truman must have surely seen some clues in the past that would uncover the truth of his life, he chose to ignore them because as the producer of the show says, “we accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.” Truman finally begins to realize peculiar things, such as seeing his dad who had supposedly drowned at sea, leaving Truman with a debilitating fear of the sea. His father’s appearance is explained away, but Truman is left with a suspicious feeling that is magnified when his radio goes on the cast’s frequency and he hears a voice describing his movements. He spontaneously runs away from his work and begins to pay closer attention to people and things in his life. He is unable to book a flight to Tahiti or take a bus to Chicago so he tries to drive a way with his wife. They make it over the bridge, but are stopped due to a ‘nuclear power plant spill’ and Truman is caught and forced to go back home. Truman pretends to go back to his normal life, but surprises everyone by planning an escape. Everyone is looking for him and he is eventually found sailing away. In order to stop him, the producer creates strong winds and rain, almost drowning Truman in the process. Truman continues and makes it to a door in the wall of the dome in which Seahaven is located. The producer tries to dissuade Truman from leaving, but Truman chooses freedom and the unknown and steps out of the dome.

The film the Truman Show portrays a middle aged man, Truman Burbank, who is the center of a reality television show which is aired 24 hours a day, however he is unaware that his whole life is the basis of this hit popular show. He lives in a fictitious fairyland world in which everything is predestined for him, his job, his friends, and even his love interests. Towards the end of the film Truman’s suspicions begin to grow about the place he once called home. He quickly realizes that he is being watched and thus becomes incredibly anxious and feels isolated. He questions the motives of the people in his life, and slowly he begins to pay attention to the discrepancies in his so-called perfect world.
Truman thus ventures on a quest to search for the real truth he knows is out there. He plans his carefully planned escape out of Seahaven. He sails away, however he is hindered by artificial storms and massive waves. Eventually, he makes it to the end of the set when his boat crashes into the wall. The director of the television show, attempts to convince Truman to stay in Seahaven, however he disregards his words and decides to take a leap into reality.

“The Truman Show” is a movie starring actor Jim Carey who plays protagonist, Truman Banks. In the movie Truman is living within what appears to be a normal world, however there is something eerie to it all. The truth of the matter is that he is living within a show. A TV company adopted him since birth and he has ever since been part of “The Truman Show.” He is completely unaware that he is the star character of this show and simply believes that he is living his life. Everything around him is false, the friends he has are all just actors and where he has lived his whole life is really just a huge set surrounded by water and encompassed by a dome.

The movie basically documents Truman journey to discovery about the life he has been living. In the beginning he appears to have this lovely and calm life with his wife and best friend at his side. Sadly it is said that his father perished when he was young due to a boating accidently which Truman blames on himself and has caused him to be deathly afraid of the ocean. He begins to notice that something is different when he is approached by what appears to be his father; however; the man is attacked and boarded onto a bus before Truman can even speak to him. Truman flashbacks to when he was in college where he begins to remember a girl he was in love with yet was separated from by the TV executives. After multiple instances that lead Truman to believe he is living in a fake world he deceives the cameras for a while, overcomes his fears, and sets sail into the ocean. The producer realizes where he is at and almost kills him with a fake storm. Truman eventually reaches the end of the dome where he is living in and walks out through a door.

The Truman Show is a movie about a man named Truman who seems to be living a normal life. However, as the movie progresses, certain out of place things start to happen that Tuman takes notice to. What he does not know is that his entire life and every move he makes is being monitored, documented, controled, and televised to the entire world. Weird things have happened while he was growing up such as men dressed in black taking his crush away or her telling him that his life is fake or people from the real world breakin on to set. But Truman never figured it out.
The plot takes it's turn when Truman sees his dead father dressed as a homless man on the street. At which point people drag him away from truman and force bim onto a bus. truman becomes suspicious of peoples actions and slowly realizes this his whole town is a setup that refuses to allow him to leave. So he digs a hole in his garden that leads to his closet and sneaks out in the middle of the night tricking the cameras. By the time everyone finds of where he is, he is on a sailboat on the fake ocean where the network that runs the Truman show manipulate the weather to tip his boat over and drown him. Truman survives and finds out just how fake it all is when his boat runs into the end of the sky which is painted wall. After the created of the show tries to change his mind about leaving, Truman steps out the exit door and the tv show is cut off the air. Some people who watched the show are happy he gt away and sum mad that he show ended. The movies last scene is two security guards seeing the show end and decide to look for sumthing else on and look for a tv guide.

Truman Burbank is living a fake life in Seahaven. He lives in a world that is actually a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere and his friends and families are actors. Truman is the star of the most popular television show in the world: The Truman Show. The producer decided that his father should die on sea when Truman was a little boy to make him fear the water and prevent his explorative curiosity. Truman falls in love with an extra instead of the actress who is supposed to become his wife so the extra is forced to "move to Fiji."

Once Truman is thirty years old, he begins to discover that his life seems out of place and he feels like the world, at least his world, is revolving around him. From hearing his every move on the radio or seeing his "father" who is supposed to be dead, in the streets. Truman longs to leave Seahaven more than ever to escape his situation. He tried to leave but because his world is controlled, he couldn't get a plane ticket and the bus broke down and traffic built up. His "wife" Meryl was taken of the show because she couldn't handle his sudden epiphany and desire to travel. The producer brings back Truman's father, hoping he will keep Truman from trying to leave.

One night, Truman manages to escape the basement secretly by creating a secret tunnel. This causes many with many viewers, including Sylvia (the extra he fell in love with), cheering on Truman's escape attempt. Truman finally reaches the end of the set and gives his final bow to go out into the "real world."

I feel like this movie raises important questions of deception and morality.

The Truman Show is a thought provoking film starring Jim Carrey as the main character, Truman Burbank. Truman lives what he believes is a normal life, but turns out to be nothing of the sort. Since his birth, Truman has been living in the largest television set ever created and has been unknowingly starring in his own reality show aired 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All of the people he believes to be friends, family, coworkers, and members of the city are nothing but actors. Everything he does and says is caught on film by one of the 5,000 cameras placed strategically throughout the city and broadcasted to millions all over the world.

The plot thickens when Truman begins to notice strange things happening during his quest to find his one true love, Sylvia. Sylvia, a former actress on the show, fell in love with Truman and tried to save him from "captivity" but instead was written off the show and forbidden to every see him again. Ever since that final kiss on the beach, Truman has been after her. Truman becomes aware of unusual occurrences in the city such as falling stage lights, backless elevators, strange radio frequencies, and other coincidences. Finally, after realizing that his wife crossed her fingers in their wedding picture, he sets out to Fiji to try and locate his lost love, Sylvia. Because he is not allowed to leave the city, directors and producers try to do all they can to keep him from leaving and go as far as almost drowning him as he sails on his own boat towards what he believes is Fiji. As the boat reaches the end of the set and crashes through the wall, Truman finally discovers what is really going on, sees an exit door, bids his audience a farewell, and leaves the show forever.

The “Truman Show,” is a movie in which it shares the reality of a single man to the world through a television show. Truman the main character grew up in this secluded town where he has no idea that the people surrounding him are actors instead of neighbors, co-workers, friends, or even his true love. Before he was born, he was chosen as a young star without his consent, because he was a newborn put up for adoption. Thirty years later the movie begins, and Truman starts to realize that his life has been “fake,” by certain hints. A clever way that the director made Truman from traveling off the island to keep him from knowing that he is on a show, he made Truman afraid of water. Truman had a tragic moment when he lost his father to an unfortunate sailing accident when he was a young boy. Ever since he was frightened to ever go near water. This show according to the director brought, “Hope, joy, and inspiration to millions,” even though this show affected Truman’s free will of living.
Truman began to realize that he was being watched when weird things started happening. A light dropped from the “sky,” right in front of Truman. While Truman was driving, the radio switched stations to a station in which they were talking about where Truman was, and which streets he was turning on to. He realizes that in his wedding picture his wife was crossing her fingers, meaning her marriage was a fake. He then saw his long lost dad walking on the streets, and when he went to talk to him, everyone went in his way so he couldn’t. When it all hit him, he saw in an elevator a set behind the elevator walls. He later tried to leave the island, and every time he did the flight was delayed for a month, the bridge was blocked, and or the bus broke. Finally, by overcoming his fear of water, he takes on the ocean in a sailboat. The director tried to stop Truman from leaving by inducing winds, and rain. Truman prevailed and realized that his life he had been living was in a huge dome when he hit the end of the ocean. This being recorded on television, everyone in the world was watching Truman discover that his life was being watched and they all were cheering for him to leave. After the director talked to Truman, wanting him to stay, Truman exits without taking a second look behind him.

The “Truman Show,” is a movie in which it shares the reality of a single man to the world through a television show. Truman the main character grew up in this secluded town where he has no idea that the people surrounding him are actors instead of neighbors, co-workers, friends, or even his true love. Before he was born, he was chosen as a young star without his consent, because he was a newborn put up for adoption. Thirty years later the movie begins, and Truman starts to realize that his life has been “fake,” by certain hints. A clever way that the director made Truman from traveling off the island to keep him from knowing that he is on a show, he made Truman afraid of water. Truman had a tragic moment when he lost his father to an unfortunate sailing accident when he was a young boy. Ever since he was frightened to ever go near water. This show according to the director brought, “Hope, joy, and inspiration to millions,” even though this show affected Truman’s free will of living.
Truman began to realize that he was being watched when weird things started happening. A light dropped from the “sky,” right in front of Truman. While Truman was driving, the radio switched stations to a station in which they were talking about where Truman was, and which streets he was turning on to. He realizes that in his wedding picture his wife was crossing her fingers, meaning her marriage was a fake. He then saw his long lost dad walking on the streets, and when he went to talk to him, everyone went in his way so he couldn’t. When it all hit him, he saw in an elevator a set behind the elevator walls. He later tried to leave the island, and every time he did the flight was delayed for a month, the bridge was blocked, and or the bus broke. Finally, by overcoming his fear of water, he takes on the ocean in a sailboat. The director tried to stop Truman from leaving by inducing winds, and rain. Truman prevailed and realized that his life he had been living was in a huge dome when he hit the end of the ocean. This being recorded on television, everyone in the world was watching Truman discover that his life was being watched and they all were cheering for him to leave. After the director talked to Truman, wanting him to stay, Truman exits without taking a second look behind him.

The movie, "The Truman Show," is about a man named Truman Burbank. Truman is the start of a television show called The Truman show. The only thing is: he doesn't know. Truman was adopted by a corporation before he was born and has spent his whole life, including his birth, on TV with the help of thousands of hidden cameras. Everyone around Truman is an actor including his wife, his mother, and his best friend and the city in which he lives is a set. He has been made to believe that the city is located on an island and to discourage him from wanting to travel elsewhere the show's producers have made him afraid to travel over water. The major reason he is afraid is because of the death of his father when he was younger but there are also posters and television shows that are there to encourage his fear.
Truman lives his whole life without really suspecting that he is a part of the most popular show on television. But now Truman is starting to suspect that something isn't right due to a series of events. A light from the set drops out of the sky, Truman sees his father who is supposed to be dead, he tries to go into an elevator which isn't an elevator but instead leads to the set, he notices that in his wedding picture his wife is crossing her fingers. Truman begins to question why the entire city seems to revolve around him and even when he makes an attempt to try to leave the city there is always something there to stop him. One night Truman escapes, unnoticed by the cameras. All of the people on the set are sent looking for him and eventually we see that Truman is on a boat trying to escape. The show's creator tries to discourage him with a storm but in the end Truman ends up reaching the end of the set where the creator then tries to persuade him to stay on the set where it is safe and the world is created just for him. But to the disappointment of the creator, Truman leaves the set and exits into the real world.

The truman show is about a man named truman who is caught up in an elaborate reality show. His entire life is scripted and he doesnt know it. His wife, his friends, everyone is an actor. The entire world watches his life without him knowing. It has been like this for Truman since birth and he knows nothing different. Truman wants to be an explorer, but cannot leave because he is entrapped in a dome. Truman still doesnt know all this is going on.

Truman starts to get clues when he sees his father on the streets of town. His father was supposed to have died in a boating accident when Truman was young. People come and take Truman's father as soon as he makes contact with him. Truman finds this very odd and starts noticing other odd things around town. When Truman starts to catch on to whats going on the director and creater of the show tries to do everything he can to keep Truman inside the Dome. Eventually Truman endures a harsh storm and makes it out of the dome alive.

The Truman Show is about a man born in front of a camera and spent the first 30 years of his life watched by millions uncut and unedited. Everything is real but at the same time it is fake. Everything what may seem real to him is composed and planned out, from the events that happen during the day to the products they commercialize. Truman had lived his entire life questioning this perfect town he lived in but never could put a finger on what was actually wrong.

Truman Burbank has the feeling that he's being watched. He doesn't know how right he is. Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras. Until one day he escapes and sets sail the hope of getting away. And finally to his surprise gets to the end and leaves his his protected home and enters the real world.

The Truman Show (haha True Man. Wow I can't believe I just got that). Is about a man who's life is the ultimate candid camera reality TV show. Chosen as a baby he was placed in an artificial environment—an island called Seahaven (I think). All the people in his life are really just actors. Furthermore every day, hour, and minute of his life has been broadcast live over television. Truman has been contained in this false world by his fear of the ocean. When he was a young boy the directors of the show staged his father's death in a storm out at sea. The Truman show has become the world's most popular television show, and every year it grosses as much as a whole country.
The problem is that Truman is starting to suspect that something is going on. His natural desire for adventure causes him to push the boundaries of his fake little world. The film follows him as he discovers more and more how fake his life is. In the end he finally learns the truth and is given an option. Continue to live in the artificial, but safe, world, or head out into the dangerous unknown. With his memorable catch frase, “In case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight” he ends up deciding to brave the real world.

“The Truman Show” is about Truman, a man who was selected prior to birth to be the main star of a reality t.v. show. He’s born in a fake city, where everyone but him is acting as part of the cast of the show. Truman has no idea that he is in this fake world. He also is clueless that every moment of his life is on television. Throughout the film, he stumbles across hints and ideas that something is wrong about his life. For instance, he meets Sylvia, who tells him he is being watched. Sylvia’s “father” plays it off as though Sylvia is mentally insane, however, Truman is left with a hint. He also begins to realize how things function in the city. Everything is extremely scheduled, and almost as though it’s centered around him. He wants to leave, but the land is surrounded by water. He’s been trained to have a fear as water, as it supposedly caused his father’s death. Towards the end of the film, he finally gets the courage to get in a boat and travel across the ocean. He ends up crashing into the wall of the set that’s painted like the horizon, and then learns of his true reality.
At the end of the movie, the director says something to Truman which really caught my interest. He says that outside of the set, things are just as fake as they are inside. Sadly, I find some truth in this, especially in regards to the consumer society. Within the consumer society, it is as though we as individuals no longer exist, but rather the controllers of the society itself are in charge – being the sellers and media. They tell us what we need to buy, what we need in relationships, and what will overall make us happier people. In my opinion, things outside the set are going to be pretty similar to things inside the set. If Truman honestly had no idea that he was inside the set, his reality could suffice for the genuineness of a normal modern-day reality. The director also says that if Truman really wanted leave, he could have. I think this is interesting and can be paralleled to modern day consumer society. We get stuck in the lives that consumerism lays upon us. Yet, most people are either ignorant or too lazy to step out of the false world we exist in. People get so comfortable with the way they are living, and they never question their reality. We should take time to question ours like Truman did, and maybe we will be surprised.

The “Truman Show” is a movie about a man named Truman Burbank who was randomly chosen to be the star of a reality series which involved documenting his entire life, without his knowledge. Since birth, his whole life has been secretly taped as his birth date happen to be the agreed date to start the reality show. Every part of his life is staged and even his wife, Maryl, is an actress. Truman lives in a town called Seahaven, but in reality Seahaven is a huge enclosed dome and television set for The Truman Show. The people in charge of the movie seem very immoral as they do everything they can to keep this fake reality together and keep Truman from exploring other parts of the world. The producer, Christof, has control over everything that happens in Seahaven; from the weather to the traffic it is all scripted.

After 30 years of filming his life, Truman finally starts to put pieces together and begins realizing he is being exploited. Truman desperately tries to leave for Fiji but the producer makes sure to make flights unavailable. After isolating himself in his basement he decides to sneak out and attempt to sail away, unknowingly sailing upon a fake ocean. A huge storm is produced by the show to crash the boat to try to scare Truman from leaving. His boat ends up hitting the outside of the dome and then he sees an exit sign and the producer tries to persuade him not to leave but he continues to step outside the dome and viewers everywhere root for him as he has finally made it through and is ready to live in the real world.

The Truman Show is focused on the protagonist, Truman, who is unwittingly the center of a television show. From the day of his birth Truman has been filmed unknowingly by hidden cameras. His father, mother, wife, friends and everyone else he interacts with are paid actors. The very island which he lives on is a creation for the show, which features its own set of sun ad moon for perfect sunsets. The television show airs 24 hours a day, and has the largest fan base in the history of television. The money for the show comes from product placement in Truman’s life, which is unaware of at first. It is not until Truman reaches his 30th birthday, and the 30th year of the Truman show, that he realizes something about his life is not quite right. The quick re-appearance and disappearance of Truman’s thought to be dead father catalyzes his awakening to how the immediate world is completely centered on him.
After he realizes something is extremely amiss with his life, Truman sets out to escape the island which he has never left. He tries to book a flight to Fiji, but there is not a single flight for over a month. He tries to leave for Chicago on the bus, but the engine fails. The staged death of Truman’s father at sea when Truman was a young boy, instilled him with a fear of large bodies of water When he tries to drive in car with his wife, he has to hold down the accelerator, close his eyes, and force his wife to steer in order to cross a bridge isolating the island. Even after he escapes the island, in the next town a road block is set up for a “hazardous situation”, and when Truman tries to escape on foot he is tacked and returned home. It is not until he sets up a fake body with pillows in his bed in the basement is able to lose to cameras long enough to actually escape. Overcoming his fear of water, Truman makes the ultimate escape into the open ocean. After he survives a storm, he comes into contact with the creator of the Truman Show and the life he lives. Finally after some dialogue and explanation the story ends with Truman choosing to leave his world of safety to explore the real world.

The Truman show is a movie about a man being tricked into believing the world he lives in is the real world. The chronicles of his life is being prod cast to the whole world 24/7. The purpose of keeping Truman Burbank out of the loop is because the executive producer, Christof, wants to capture Truman’s real emotions when dealing with certain situations. Truman was the first to be adopted by a corporation and the first 30 years of Truman’s life is in the controlled of Christof.
Truman starts to questions his life when he sees the town pretty much revolve around him. On his way to work one day, he hears people talking on the radio describing his morning commute to work. Another suspicion he has, his supposedly dead father appears on the set and was force to leave. The one thing that he can’t get his mind off of is Sylvia. Despite Christof’s control, Truman falls in love with Silvia an extra. She tried to tell that everything he sees is not real, but before she could tell Truman she was forced off the set. Truman is no longer can tell what is real and what is not. He got over his fear of water and sail away from the town in boat named Santa Maria. Christof orders the crew to create a large storm to capsized Truman’s boat. Truman’s determination to get off the island makes Christof stop the storm. In Christof last attempt to keep Truman on the island, he tells Truman the world he created for him is as real as the real world. After a moment of deliberation with himself, Truman walk out the set and into the real world.

What if you where watched since the day you were born and everyone you grew up to know including your father, mother, wife, your best friend and basically all the people around you was in fact pretending. What if the world you grew up and inhabits in was an imaginary made up and unreal fantasy world? Although in your mind you thought it was all real because you didn’t know when in actuality it’s a counterfeit. I suppose if this sort of thing had happened to us, most of us will go emotionally break down and probably go into a state of depression. I know for a certain that I will be very furious after I find out the truth. This is the world in which Truman finds himself in, a world of make believe.
Truman Brubank who has a good job, a gorgeous wife and just a happy and successful life lives in a peaceful, small and beautiful town that s called Seahaven. The town is actually a huge film studio where everything can seen and controlled from out of space by the cooperate owners and it’s filled with thousands of cameras everywhere. In the studio, the world’s famous T.V show called The Truman show is recorded and transmitted to the whole population of the world. The protagonist in the movie is Truman who has absolutely no clue about what’s going on. He doesn’t know he’s living a fake life because when he was born, he got adopted legally by a film cooperation who nurtured him with fake parents. Since the film cooperation didn’t want him to ever live the town or find out the secret that’s been kept from him, they made him to have a fear of water since Seahaven is surrounded by water and they also drowned his father.
However, Truman started to get very suspicious about the life and world he lives in. One day strange things started to happened and a lamp falls from the sky and this gives him signs that all this while he’s actually been living a life made up for him. Truman therefore sets out to find out the truth about what’s going on.

Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey, is the main character in his own television show. The movie takes place on a giant movie set that is a fake island surrounded by water and enclosed by an enormous football stadium dome. Actors who pretend to be everything from his family to the postman delivering the mail surround Truman. The environment that Truman lives in is controlled. He is the only one that is living a “real” life, as he believes that everything surrounding him is real. Truman stays on the island because he fears the water that surrounds it. He is scared of the ocean because when he was younger he went on a sailing trip with his dad. During the trip his dad drowns and ever since then Truman is fearful of water.

As the story and past unfolds during the movie, Truman who is now an adult starts to wonder what else lies past the island and his ordinary life. He decides that he would like to travel to Fiji. When he tries to schedule a flight, it is impossible for him to get one. More and more strange events occur for Truman: his bus breaks down, a light bulb (from the set) falls from the sky, he sees his father, his mother forces him to get his wife (Meryl) pregnant, and he meets a girl (Sylvia) who tells him that he is in a television show. Truman starts to see that his environment shapes to him. He questions society and it’s repetitiveness. Finally, at the end of the movie, a large storm appears while Truman is sailing on a ship away from the island. Truman fights his fear of the water and keeps on pursuing. Eventually, the director Christof stops the storm and Truman finds exit stairs that go out from the giant movie set. Christof talks to Truman over a loud speaker telling him what has been happening for the past years. Christof tries to persuade Truman to continue being a “movie star.” Instead Truman walks up the stairs and leaves. He is soon greeted by his true lover, Sylvia.

“The Truman Show” was directed by Peter Weir and made in 1998. It stars Jim Carey who plays Truman Burbank in the movie. The movie is based on a television show in the future which has created a fake world for Truman to live in, in the middle of Hollywood. Truman was placed in this fake world since birth and believes it only exists. This world which was created is placed with thousands of video cameras to capture Truman's every move for the entertainment of the real world. Everything Truman encounters in the movie has been set up by actors and script writers. Throughout the movie Jim Carey has a fun sense of humor but the movie can be categorized in many ways such as a drama, comedy or even a horror. Throughout the movie there are many hidden ads for the people outside of Truman's world to see. For example, Truman's wife advertises a all in one kitchen utensil in the beginning of the movie. These advertisements placed all over the movie are a symbol for consumerism in America. Truman can make no decisions for himself everything he does has been manipulated and chosen for him.
The movie shows Truman figuring out he is living in a confined world where he is not able to freely leave. There are many signs throughout the movie signaling to Truman that there is another world outside his own. For example, in the beginning of the movie a studio light falls out of the sky right in front of Truman's house and later on the radio they explain it is just a plane dumping parts. After Truman gets many kinds of signs like this Truman makes it his mission to get out of his current town and travel to Fiji. Unfortunately, there are many factors stopping him from traveling such as booked flights for a month and signs all around showing the dangers of flying. Also Truman has a fear of water after witnessing has fathers death at sea as a child, which was staged. After many struggles at sea, Truman eventually sails to the edge of the studio of this fake world and chooses to leave.


“The Truman Show” was directed by Peter Weir and made in 1998. It stars Jim Carey who plays Truman Burbank in the movie. The movie is based on a television show in the future which has created a fake world for Truman to live in, in the middle of Hollywood. Truman was placed in this fake world since birth and believes it only exists. This world which was created is placed with thousands of video cameras to capture Truman's every move for the entertainment of the real world. Everything Truman encounters in the movie has been set up by actors and script writers. Throughout the movie Jim Carey has a fun sense of humor but the movie can be categorized in many ways such as a drama, comedy or even a horror. Throughout the movie there are many hidden ads for the people outside of Truman's world to see. For example, Truman's wife advertises a all in one kitchen utensil in the beginning of the movie. These advertisements placed all over the movie are a symbol for consumerism in America. Truman can make no decisions for himself everything he does has been manipulated and chosen for him.

The movie shows Truman figuring out he is living in a confined world where he is not able to freely leave. There are many signs throughout the movie signaling to Truman that there is another world outside his own. For example, in the beginning of the movie a studio light falls out of the sky right in front of Truman's house and later on the radio they explain it is just a plane dumping parts. After Truman gets many kinds of signs like this Truman makes it his mission to get out of his current town and travel to Fiji. Unfortunately, there are many factors stopping him from traveling such as booked flights for a month and signs all around showing the dangers of flying. Also Truman has a fear of water after witnessing has fathers death at sea as a child, which was staged. After many struggles at sea, Truman eventually sails to the edge of the studio of this fake world and chooses to leave.


The Truman Show revolves around the life of Truman Burbank. Truman lives with his wife, Meryl, in a nice town with friendly people. He leads an ordinary life and seems to be very content with it. Though he is happy, he finds his daily routines very repetitive. He wants to travel the world, but is unable to leave his island town because of his phobia of water and lack of reliable transportation. He also starts to notice strange things, like a catering area behind an elevator and a radio station that broadcasts his every movement. Truman begins to think everyone around him, including Meryl and his friend Marlon, are up to something.
As Truman starts putting together pieces of the strange things he notices, he realizes that everyone is watching him and that video cameras placed in strategic locations are recording his every movement. Truman finally decides to escape the island and does so in the middle of the night by sailboat, so that no one suspects where he has gone. He sails through a storm and into the horizon, where the bow of the boat suddenly crashes into something. When Truman takes a closer look, he realizes that he crashed into a wall painted to look like the sky. He notices a stairway going up the edge of the wall, leading to a door that reads “exit”. A voice from overhead speaks to Truman and introduces himself as Christof, the creator of the Truman Show. Christof reveals to Truman that from the start of his birth, he has been the star of a live television show and that the entire world he has been living in is a large, fabricated set with thousands of actors. Christof pleads with Truman, begging him to stay in his world he has created especially for him. To the excitement of millions watching, Truman decides to walk through the door to finally reach the real world.

The Truman show is about a man named Truman who, for his entire life has been part of a reality TV show. He lives in a fake town, where the inhabitants are all actors and cameras are place strategically to film his entire life. As the movie progresses Truman starts to notice that things are a bit strange. He starts to question his life there and wishes to travel somewhere else to find a girl he loved, that was taken from the show for not conforming to the 'script'.

After several failed attempts Truman finally makes it off the island and discovers that his world is very truly fake. The creator of the show tempts Truman to stay, but Truman leaves anyway. At its heart, the movie is questioning what it means to be truly free.

The Truman Show is a sad depiction of a man whose entire life has been written by people who control every detail of his life. More accurately, Truman Burbank - played by Jim Carey - is a man who has had his entire life surrounded by cameras who have been secretly recording his every movement for the entertainment of the general public. All of the people Truman thought he was interacting with for his entire life were actually all paid actors.
As the movie progresses, it becomes more and more apparent to Truman that something unusual or unnatural was taking place in his life. The exact moment that sets off the chain of events that lead to Truman eventually learning the truth of his existence started when he sees his long lost father randomly in the middle of a typical work day. As he approached his father, men in suits ran up and carted the old man away very quickly. That moment cause Truman to evaluate what could be in his life, which inevitably leads to his discovery of all the deception.

"The Truman Show" is a movie that follows the life of Truman who is the star of his own reality show; the only trouble is, he doesn't know that he's on it. He doesn't know that his whole life has been set up and planned. Everyone in his life, including his wife, best friend, mother, and father are actors. His life is a script and everyone is in on it, except him. Truman, for the first 30 years of his life, lives in Seahaven, a made up "perfect" town, and lives pretty much the perfect life. There are a few slip ups, when Sylvia is taken away in a weird way, his "father" dies, but generally Truman has it made. And this is because it is made. Truman lives in a fake world. In a world where everything is contrived and events are planned to the tee. For example, everyone has morning (first) positions that they assume to begin the day. Like his neighbors always greet him in the same fashion every morning. There is product placement all the time because the actors are aware that they are on national TV 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So they take advantage and "sell" products.
Truman has been filmed since he was in the tomb. His whole life has been watched for 30 days, 365 days a year, all the time. His birth was seen and every moment forward. He was adopted by the national television program, so they had control over him, but he was trapped. Trapped from truly knowing what it's like to live a normal life, not one that is made for you, where the events of it, like when and how your father die is planned for you. And the whole reason for his father's death was because they had to find a way to get Truman to not want to leave the island, so that made truman afraid of water. For so long he never suspected anything but then little things started to happen. For example a stage light fell from the sky. Then his dead father reappeared. Then he just started to observed and saw that people are on a loop and then ultimately he devises a way to sneak by them unnoticed, he's sailing away, because he's been trying to get to Fiji and what not, until he's found and the tv people make the weather really bad and it almost kills him but he gets to the end of the "set" (hugest set ever) and the boat goes through the wall because it's a television set, not the real outside and he gets there and walks up stairs to a door with an exit sign and he talks to the main producer who told him why he gives him this world and why he shouldn't leave it but Truman leaves, he's finally free. Truman realizes that he has been lied to and everything has been fake and he won't take anymore it. He steps through that tiny, black door, and we are left wondering who knows what's going to happen to him, where's he going next but at least he knows and he has a choice.

The Truman Show is about a man who has been surrounded by a fake community since his birth, a town called Seahaven which is centered and concentrated around his existence. It was created by a man named Christof, who provides structured scenarios for Truman along with deciding every little aspect of Truman’s life, like the weather, his job, etc. through manipulation and technology. Truman is an insurance salesman but unsatisfied with his occupation, dreaming about the possibility of traveling and adventuring the world. He’s sincere, a “true man,” while the others around him are paid actors, even his best friend and wife. He doesn’t question his existence and life until a spotlight from above falls in the middle of the street in front of a surprised and startled Truman.
Little mistakes by Christof and the structure of Truman’s life are made; on the radio, Truman hears people talking about his exact location, he notices his wife odd behavior with new merchandise, and his father comes alive as a hobo, though he died in a storm a long time ago. Christof’s perfect world for Truman is beginning to fall apart, as Truman begins to realize its fallacy. Finally, Truman escapes, conquers his fear of the ocean and sails away from Seahaven to try to escape the fake life he has been caged in all his life in order to find truth. Though Christof tries to persuade him out of it, by creating a violent storm and then talking to him through a sound system, Truman walks through the exit doors after saying his famous slogan: “In case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.” Thus, he ends the show and leaves the old Truman behind.

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