The Truman Show Analysis
The Truman Show
The Truman Show presents to us that the media can be very controlling and influences our lives.
For example, Truman lives a perfect and happy life. This way of life is supposed to be the “American
Dream” and the media is advertising this perfect life to the public. The media influences our lives in many ways such as magazines, T.V. and radio. The media wants us to live our life in a certain way. The media sets many expectations not only to how we live but also how we look, such as size zero models being promoted which increases the amount of people desiring to be thinner. Truman shows this because his life is manipulated by the media through a universe of illusions pulled over his face; where nothing is real but he believes it is not only real but true.
Truman is a happy person who lives the life of a well put together American. He has been chosen as the star of a media show because he was up against four other unborn babies that weren’t wanted by their parents. Just so happened he was born first. He doesn’t know about it because everything in his life is controlled within the world’s biggest media studio ever. He is influenced by the media by emotional manipulation and his actions are controlled. The town in which Truman lives, Sea Haven, is a giant dome decked out with high tech simulations of sun and sky, in which the rain and wind are courtesy of the special effects department. Truman alone has no idea he is in a giant TV studio, as the rest of humanity watches him from one staged situation to another. He is trapped in his own life, held down in the surreal existence in which he has been forced to spend the last 30 years. A non-stop telethon of reality programming lets the audiences enjoy his most intimate moments. This “prison” that Truman has been placed in allows us to identify with him, because we feel his emotions, we follow his struggle for freedom and privacy, friendship and love, and his search
The Truman Show presents to us that the media can be very controlling and influences our lives.
For example, Truman lives a perfect and happy life. This way of life is supposed to be the “American
Dream” and the media is advertising this perfect life to the public. The media influences our lives in many ways such as magazines, T.V. and radio. The media wants us to live our life in a certain way. The media sets many expectations not only to how we live but also how we look, such as size zero models being promoted which increases the amount of people desiring to be thinner. Truman shows this because his life is manipulated by the media through a universe of illusions pulled over his face; where nothing is real but he believes it is not only real but true.
Truman is a happy person who lives the life of a well put together American. He has been chosen as the star of a media show because he was up against four other unborn babies that weren’t wanted by their parents. Just so happened he was born first. He doesn’t know about it because everything in his life is controlled within the world’s biggest media studio ever. He is influenced by the media by emotional manipulation and his actions are controlled. The town in which Truman lives, Sea Haven, is a giant dome decked out with high tech simulations of sun and sky, in which the rain and wind are courtesy of the special effects department. Truman alone has no idea he is in a giant TV studio, as the rest of humanity watches him from one staged situation to another. He is trapped in his own life, held down in the surreal existence in which he has been forced to spend the last 30 years. A non-stop telethon of reality programming lets the audiences enjoy his most intimate moments. This “prison” that Truman has been placed in allows us to identify with him, because we feel his emotions, we follow his struggle for freedom and privacy, friendship and love, and his search