Truman Burbank and the Philosophy - the Truman Show
Essay by Woxman • August 7, 2011 • Essay • 335 Words (2 Pages) • 1,678 Views
Truman Burbank has lived his entire life since before birth, in front of cameras for "The Truman Show", although he himself is unaware of this fact.
Truman was adopted at birth by Christof's television company, and his life has been televised every second of every day from that moment on. For thirty years, he has been the unwitting star of the longest running, popular documentary-soap opera in history. Truman's life is filmed through 5,000 hidden TV cameras, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and broadcast live around the world; He has a great job, a loving wife, and everybody knows and loves him. He has no idea that his world is actually a huge. He lives in a giant studio and is surrounded by illusion of reality .Everyone around him is an actor: his mother, father, best friend, wife, coworkers, shopkeepers, street-sweepers, etc. And all the actors overact: the mother is too motherly, the best friend is awfully true blue, and the wife is ever so wifely. Hollywood set populated with actors portraying characters in his life's story. He doesn't know that the events in his life are all carefully monitored and controlled by the production crew of the television network. He doesn't know he is the star of a television show nor that he isn't living in the real world .In christof states that "there's nothing fake about Truman himself" because Truman is the only person that can't control of christof orders he can do what he want he can decide what he will do. Christof prove that Truman's real emotion and human behavior when put in certain situations. Truman has managed to behave in unexpected manners, in particular falling in love with an extra, Sylvia, instead of Meryl, the actress intended to be his wife. These "true" emotions are very hard to come buy in a movie or TV show, as they are scripted And Truman he's not an actor but he doesn't know that he is actor himself.
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