The Truman Show

A detailed Summary of The Truman Show

Ahhhh The Truman Show, my favorite motion picture, the comedy that makes you

question absolutely everything. Its a movie about a show about a guy who is being watched on

television all over the world, lives in a fabricated community, and is the only person on the planet

who is completely oblivious to the whole plot... at least for a while. For most of Truman's life,

the director of the show manages to make him believe that all he sees around him is genuine,

spontaneous, unscripted life, when in fact Truman is trapped in the middle of a soap opera with no

way out. The film deals with many of the same topics that we've been learning about in class.

There are the different types of knowledge, the different ways of knowing things, and several

theories regarding what is true and what isn't.

The Truman Show started with 5 unwanted pregnancies. Truman, born early, was

selected and started the show with nothing but his A priori instincts. As he grows, his gumption

combined with necessity create in Truman, a paradigm. This is how it works for just about

everyone. Except in Truman's case, everything that he perceives has been artificially created in

order to construct a type of reality in which he may

knows something that she refuses to tell him. Then there's his anomaly when he realizes that his

the sky in the beginning of the movie, and everyone said it was a plane that lost a part, Truman

off the boat and supposedly drowned. The only unplanned emotion that Truman ever felt was his

just don't understand. Maybe it's meant to be ambiguous. The Truman Show really illustrated the

the shifts for Truman to understand is when he sees his father (who was lost at sea when Truman

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