The Truman Show And Allegory

In this drama, the film made by Peter Weir was released in 1998. A movie is about a man (Truman Burbank) who is held hostage inside a world that spins around him. Truman Burbank does not know his life is a show on the television that was playing 24/24. Since the time he was born until the time he grows up and married, a thousand cameras were recording the images of him to a millions audience watch like a movie. At age of 30, Truman still no doubt about his perfect life. And he doesn't try to leave his Disneyland because every day people (actors) always remind Truman how dangerous the outside world is. Until he discovers everything around him was set up by the director. He saw everything keep repeating again and again. And when he looks at the picture of his wedding, he saw his wife did the
Some people said their life is like Truman’s life. Because their life were control of another. And they’re not living in their own life. To know who really we are, we need to do the same thing like Truman did. The Truman Show is kind a parallel with Allegory of the Cave because Truman and the prisoners both were trapped in some’s cage. They didn’t know their reality is not real. The escape prisoner and Truman were finally discovered the truth outside the world. They realize their past is nothing but a lie and had been control of another. The Truman Show gives us a lesson to discover the truth of reality life. Truman was left the perfect life on the island and he wants to explore the real world. His life was manipulated by Christof as much as the jail. Truman wants to discover the outside of his world and finding his true love. According to the film, “The Truman Show's narrative ends with Truman leaving the studio set, stepping into an outside space that the film in this moment does not show, only suggesting that Sylvia/Lauren will come to meet him.”