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    Knowledge/Period 7 15 October 2014 The Truman Show Concepts of perception‚ the nature of reality‚ and the allegory of the cave can be seen throughout the 1998 film‚ The Truman Show. In the beginning of the movie‚ Truman is seen literally with a rain cloudy only above him. But since his line of vision only saw what was in front of him‚ his perception of the weather was limited by what he could see. Meryl‚ his wife on the show‚ was constantly advertising for products without Truman noticing anything. He saw

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    The Truman Show is a depiction of “what if our lives are just a television show?” projected onto a simple‚ every-day man type of character. The Truman Show follows the life of Truman Burbank‚ who is unknowingly the star of a globally popular television show. This is representative of two terms‚ ethical intensity and social consensus. Ethical intensity is the degree of concern people have about an ethical issue. By knowing this show is viewed worldwide and that no one

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    Some people say that an uncomfortable truth is better than a comfortable lie. People do not want to live a life that is false‚ phony or somehow an illusion. This concept is explored in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show and Arthur Miller’s classic play Death of a Salesman. The Truman Show explores one man’s struggle to uncover the truth about the world he lives in. In Death of a Salesman‚ the responder witnesses the unfolding of one man’s struggle as he comes to terms with an uncomfortable truth

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    In this novel the author writes three books in one to describe his view of the city as oppressed‚ blind‚ and ignorant to humanity. Wright uses Bigger’s violent and exasperated attitude towards almost everyone in the novel (mainly white people) to show how the white people in the community basically forced black people to be placed in a fearful state of mind‚ dragging them down to where there is no escape from poverty. This is can be seen when Bigger imitates white folks and realizes white people

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    The Truman Show by Peter Weir Offers challenging ideas of people and reinforces ideas. Weir Does this through conventions‚ plot‚ characterisation‚ setting‚ symbolism & filmic codes of camera shots‚ dialogue & audio such as music‚ sound effects and more. The Truman show reinforces the idea of people in the world that people enjoy power and control such as people that are Svengali‚ who crave power and must control and orchestrate everything that happens‚ like powerful leaders such as country

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    telling Truman that he shouldn’t ever leave Seahaven because it is one of the most “safe” places on the Earth. And it isn’t fake “It’s merely controlled”. They “try” to say that it’s really and everything when Truman’s whole life is a total lie. He doesn’t have any real friends or his real family is nowhere to be found‚ but that doesn’t make it okay to make up someone’s whole life for them. Crackdown on homeless. This happens after the “dad” shows back up after 22 years being away from Truman. He sees

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    have helped to create distinctive and effective visual impacts in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and ONE other related text of your own choosing? Prescribed Text: The Shoe-Horn Sonata Related Text: The Truman Show The utilization of elements used by John Misto in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and Peter Weir in The Truman Show help the audiences create distinctive and effective visual images. The elements used are Projected Images‚ Symbolism‚ Use of Interviewers‚ Sense of truth / Overcoming adversity‚ and metaphors

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    that controls us the viewer to laugh at the many satires that produce Reality Television. Reality television shows‚ explores how when people are placed under constant scrutiny their behaviour and the way they interact with other people changes. Most of the time they preform for the cameras and play a role that is not in their personality. In the truman show‚ Jim Carrey’s character‚ Truman‚ Is oblivious to the fact that his actions are caught on camera and are broadcast to the world‚ twenty four

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    extent do you agree with him? Truman Burbank‚ an accountant that lives in Seahaven‚ is the only real thing in his fake world. But is the world that he lives in really fake? Well it is fake but is Seahaven fake to Truman? Truman has accepted the reality of his world that which he lives in. Christof‚ the director of the Truman Show‚ believes that we should accept the reality with which we are represented. This statement is true. Christof‚ the director of ‘The Truman show’‚ made an interesting quote

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    moral constructions. The process of change may be natural and it involves pre-change‚ and outcomes which can be good‚ bad positive or negative. I have been studying two texts that’s symbolise change ‘’ the door’’ by Miroslav Holub’s‚ and ‘’The Truman Show’’. These I will be talking to you about today and presenting to you an artefact that symbolises change and how meaning is made in each of them. In Miroslav Holub’s poetry “The Door” portrays the change as a process. The poem begins with the command

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