Essay On The Truman Show

Althusser explains that ideology is a “closed system” a word constructed by the historical, political, religious and economic institutes that determine boundaries in which people exist – to me this is similar to ‘The Truman Show’, where Truman is given existence in a stimulated realm of reality, representing an imaginary relation of an individual to the real condition of their existence. Trumans interactions with his world and relationships were both real and imaginary. They were real because they were the actual conditions that he interacted with and imaginary because of the false representations of reality that were offered to him, e.g. he was lead to believe that he couldn’t travel to Fiji because ‘it had already been explored’.
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cameral behind his bathroom mirror and in his car. This shows that the viewers are constantly watching Truman.
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- The main ‘actors’ give their opinions on ‘The Truman Show’
4. Advertising - The Truman show is being sold to the people watching it. At the beginning of the film the main characters are trying to sell the Truman Show through slogans, and repetition, presenting it as one of the greatest shows made
• Stereotypical vision of American suburbia – the classic ‘American Dream’ – to sell it to their audiences as a form of reality
• The “ inhabitants”, or rather the actors, all appear to be leading the perfect lives, with their perfect little children and perfect little homes, in which they are constantly happy and content with their lives and themselves. They work hard but are living an easy life, without worry.
• The fake landscape Truman lives in is our own media landscape in which news, politics, advertising and public affairs are increasingly made up theatrical illusions.
• Truman’s fear of leaving this invented world, once he realizes it is fraud, is similar to our own reluctance to break our interdependent relationship with the