What is "The Truman Show" based on? Basically, the main character Jim Carey who plays Truman Burbank, lives his entire life in front of cameras. His everyday life including home, work, and anything in between is caught on camera. He is the star of his own reality show. There are cameras conveniently placed everywhere, following his every move.
Truman is unaware of what is going on in his surroundings, until one day when he is made aware of the fact that he is being filmed and is the star of his own show. He becomes paranoid looking at his surroundings not being able to distinguish reality from movie. He feels he can trust no one so he immediately feels compelled to escape. He runs off to discover an entire world that he was unaware of because he was trapped in his own world. He finds peace in a small town where no one really knows that he is a star of a reality TV show. The people get to know him for himself and he can finally appreciate a true relationship.
In the Allegory of Socrates' and Plato there were several prisoners who believed there was nothing else in the world but their shadows. They visualized this through fire but the prisoners believed that was all that ever existed. As one prisoner escaped, he walked out of the cave he could not open his eyes, it was his first time experiencing this bright light blaming towards his face. This took him time to see that this was a totally different life than what he was use to. He came out to reality but could not believe his eyes.
These two stories are in comparison of one another. Both faced a point in their lives where the realized what they were experiencing each and everyday was a lie. As the found there way out of the box,they realized how they were played and when they came back to their old lifestyles nobody wanted to believe that what one man had seen was the truth or basically a whole new dimension. When they have been lied to their whole life, and realized that nobody wants to help them they continue with what they have had. They do not want that new life, well reality, what life is to them is the same routine their use to even though they were lied to for many years.
Overall, The Truman Show holds a lot of character and forbidden issues. For example of the way his peers kind of had him in a containment where he did not know why. Till this moment we will never know why people do such harsh cruelty on others for no specific reason. At the end it makes us believe they are crazy or in denial.
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