The Truman Show

As far as I know the real world is the world I am living in right now. Everything I see and believe is real to me, even though they may not be real. I just believe in this world, because if I can't trust my own existence, then there would be nothing to trust. I have to believe in this world or I would not feel secure or have the will to pursue anything. The world I live in right now seems very natural; nothing has happened to me to make me believe that my surroundings are artificial.

Christof said that everything is fine because Truman is content with his life, but it was obvious that Truman was not content at all. He could not get what he wanted, such as his true love; he had no privacy, and he hated being deceived by everyone. His world was insincere; and his true He let his guard down and saw the world as it was presented. The flaw with Christof's speech is that real happiness can never be legitimate without any truth.

Christof also said that Truman would seek the outside world if he really wanted to. Truman accepted the world as it is until he saw his father was alive. At that moment he realized that the things he really wanted was being purposely taken away from him, and he had hope that if he tried hard enough he could find them. As a human, he sought out the truth and to be liberated from all the restrictions. People can be content with an artificial world until they realize that they are being deceived. Truman had no idea he was being deceived until he saw his father (who he thought was dead) being dragged away from him.

Living in a world that has no substance or truth is pointless. Even if Truman's world offered everything to Truman, he probably would have chosen the real world over the false world. I don't think his world was better in any way. He didn't even get what he wanted. People and the TV directors controlled him like a puppet. They used propaganda and people he trusted to convince him to do things the TV crew wanted him to do. They even raised hydrophobia in him and "killed" his father in the process. He had no sense of freedom literally and figuratively. He was being controlled by the people, and he could not even leave the town.

I think that the show was trying to create a parallel with our world and the Truman Show World. The government would be our TV crew. The world we live in may be real, but we might be fighting for something with no substance, such as money. We might just be wasting our time and restricting ourselves from accomplishing anything that we should.