Essays on The Truman Show

I found this movie to be very intriguing all the way through, yet at almost every point throughout the movie I felt deeply sorry for Truman and the life that he lived. I found myself wondering throughout the movie how someone could get away with...

Peter Weir’s The Truman Show is a film of great satirical intellect and poignancy. However, beneath the facade, this “comedy” conveys important social messages that provide a warning for the future. It mocks human beings’ automatic acceptance of what they are presented with and shows...

Death by A White Picket Fence The American Dream promises a life of happiness. However, this promise, surprisingly to some, often falls flat. People come to realize that a life consisting of the perfect family, the perfect children, the perfect house, and even the perfect...

“We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that. ” a quote said by the creator of The Truman Show, Christof. Imagine one’s life that is simple and routined with friendly neighbours, friends, and a lovely wife that...

Upon its initial release, few moviegoers could possibly have predicted that The Truman Show would not remain pure fantasy for decades to come. The very concept that millions of Americans would ever sit around 24/7/365 watching what essentially amounts to a secret recording of a...

A white picket fence and 2.5 children is the standard model of the American dream. It is an often quoted ideal and the literal dream of many people in the country. However; there is a problem in the definition of this dream in that the...

In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato asks us to consider that the world we are living is the equivalent of a cave; in order for us to enter into this “sensible realm” of truth and knowledge we must actively pursue these values. In his...

Can fiction, when challenged beyond the boundaries of logic, ever develop into reality? Post-modernist thinking is a way of manipulating the beliefs and concepts that shape literature, but even more so the typical methods of storytelling. Instead of structuring ideas around utter fiction, it takes...

The proper way to determine truth is a dilemma that we have been attempting to answer for centuries. We see this dramatized in Peter Weiss’s The Truman Show, a film that draws heavily from Plato’s Allegory of The Cave, one of the most well known...