Examples Of Christof In The Truman Show
A Response to the Truman Show: Christof is God!
Aniruddh Sheth
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BAH15005
In the film “The Truman Show”, reality as a concept is diminished completely. Reality for Truman was the world he saw and interacted with every day. He believed that his life was being played out by his own actions. That was his “finite” reality. On the other hand there is the reality of the character “Christof”, who for the past thirty years controlled and simulated Truman’s life. Every experience that Truman went through was planned and orchestrated by Christof. “As Truman grew up, we were forced to manufacture ways to keep him on the island”, says Christof. Christof played the god in Truman’s life. He had trapped Truman in the dome which sheltered Truman from the real world, or at least Christof thought it would. Thirty years ago when Christof discovered the baby child Truman, the thought of tracing the life of a person from birth to death occurred. He felt that projecting Truman’s life to the “outside” world would be a sort of entertainment. For thirty years television viewers tracked Truman’s every movement as a part of their daily dose of entertainment.
Over thirty years Christof had provided the show’s audience with an emotional attachment towards …show more content…
In the real world, these children are called orphans. They have an orphanage to live in, once in a while a kid gets adopted. But the fact is that they have some sort of “real” parent to look up to and learn from. In the case of Truman, his real parents abandoned him and the parents he had on the show were fake and unreal, and merely portrayed to care about his life. Christof agrees in an interview that Truman is the first ever person to be adopted by a corporation. I feel that unknowingly Christof created this character to be a portrayal of everyone in society who gets used by the corporations in to their terrorizing schemes. And Truman is the carrier of that hope that each one of us can spring out of
Aniruddh Sheth
FYS Portfolio
BAH15005
In the film “The Truman Show”, reality as a concept is diminished completely. Reality for Truman was the world he saw and interacted with every day. He believed that his life was being played out by his own actions. That was his “finite” reality. On the other hand there is the reality of the character “Christof”, who for the past thirty years controlled and simulated Truman’s life. Every experience that Truman went through was planned and orchestrated by Christof. “As Truman grew up, we were forced to manufacture ways to keep him on the island”, says Christof. Christof played the god in Truman’s life. He had trapped Truman in the dome which sheltered Truman from the real world, or at least Christof thought it would. Thirty years ago when Christof discovered the baby child Truman, the thought of tracing the life of a person from birth to death occurred. He felt that projecting Truman’s life to the “outside” world would be a sort of entertainment. For thirty years television viewers tracked Truman’s every movement as a part of their daily dose of entertainment.
Over thirty years Christof had provided the show’s audience with an emotional attachment towards …show more content…
In the real world, these children are called orphans. They have an orphanage to live in, once in a while a kid gets adopted. But the fact is that they have some sort of “real” parent to look up to and learn from. In the case of Truman, his real parents abandoned him and the parents he had on the show were fake and unreal, and merely portrayed to care about his life. Christof agrees in an interview that Truman is the first ever person to be adopted by a corporation. I feel that unknowingly Christof created this character to be a portrayal of everyone in society who gets used by the corporations in to their terrorizing schemes. And Truman is the carrier of that hope that each one of us can spring out of