The Truman Show By Jim Carry: What Is Reality?
What is Reality?
What is reality? Everyone has his own opinion about this question. Einstein has mentioned that “Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas.” (Einstein, p1) This is why people always hold onto what they believe is reality, and this finally lead to the formation of a mind-set. In my opinion, seeking reality means choosing perception and giving up prejudice instead of what we can accept.
The film called The Truman show, which stars Jim Carrey, tells the story of a man to the whole world. This man lived in a fake place which is made by a famous director. Everyone in his world knows that everything is false except Truman. He is the only person who has real emotion and he treats himself as the one part of the world, and believes …show more content…
They are chained by ropes, forced to face a blank wall. The people can only watch the shadow on the wall of the animals and people passing in front of a fire behind them. They believe the real world is what the shadows show, until one of them is released. He gets rid of the cave life, climbs out the cave and feels the warmth of the light. He realizes that shadows are just the phenomenon of the light reaction. He comes back to tell the truth to his friends. Nevertheless, no one trust him because nobody can abandon the mindset which followed them from the birth. Comparing these two kinds of people, we can find that the one can jump out of the cave because he keeps his mind to accept the new lives, while the others still stick to what they …show more content…
It’s important to note that how you choose to perceive things is how they come across to you. (Sodha, p12) What we see in the world should be controlled by ourselves. We should not just accept what we see.
Bibliography:
Boris. “Everyone sits in the Prison of His Own Ideas” The Next Web. 3 July. 2011. 29 June. 2013 < http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/07/03/everyone-sits-in-the-prison-of-his-own-ideas/ >.
Nik. “Random ramnlings” blogspot. 08 July. 2007. 29 June. 2013 < http://rathinikesh.blogspot.com/2007/07/we-accept-reality-of-world-with-which.html >.
Plato. “Allgory of the Cave.” Kirszner, Laurieg, ed. Practical Argument, 1st ed Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010.
Sodha, Amit. “Perception VS Reality” Unlimited Choice. 2013. 29 June. 2013 < http://www.unlimitedchoice.org/blog/meditations/perception-vs-reality/ >.
Weir, Peter. Dir. The Truman Show. Paramount Pictures, 1998,
What is reality? Everyone has his own opinion about this question. Einstein has mentioned that “Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas.” (Einstein, p1) This is why people always hold onto what they believe is reality, and this finally lead to the formation of a mind-set. In my opinion, seeking reality means choosing perception and giving up prejudice instead of what we can accept.
The film called The Truman show, which stars Jim Carrey, tells the story of a man to the whole world. This man lived in a fake place which is made by a famous director. Everyone in his world knows that everything is false except Truman. He is the only person who has real emotion and he treats himself as the one part of the world, and believes …show more content…
They are chained by ropes, forced to face a blank wall. The people can only watch the shadow on the wall of the animals and people passing in front of a fire behind them. They believe the real world is what the shadows show, until one of them is released. He gets rid of the cave life, climbs out the cave and feels the warmth of the light. He realizes that shadows are just the phenomenon of the light reaction. He comes back to tell the truth to his friends. Nevertheless, no one trust him because nobody can abandon the mindset which followed them from the birth. Comparing these two kinds of people, we can find that the one can jump out of the cave because he keeps his mind to accept the new lives, while the others still stick to what they …show more content…
It’s important to note that how you choose to perceive things is how they come across to you. (Sodha, p12) What we see in the world should be controlled by ourselves. We should not just accept what we see.
Bibliography:
Boris. “Everyone sits in the Prison of His Own Ideas” The Next Web. 3 July. 2011. 29 June. 2013 < http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/07/03/everyone-sits-in-the-prison-of-his-own-ideas/ >.
Nik. “Random ramnlings” blogspot. 08 July. 2007. 29 June. 2013 < http://rathinikesh.blogspot.com/2007/07/we-accept-reality-of-world-with-which.html >.
Plato. “Allgory of the Cave.” Kirszner, Laurieg, ed. Practical Argument, 1st ed Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010.
Sodha, Amit. “Perception VS Reality” Unlimited Choice. 2013. 29 June. 2013 < http://www.unlimitedchoice.org/blog/meditations/perception-vs-reality/ >.
Weir, Peter. Dir. The Truman Show. Paramount Pictures, 1998,