Analyzing the Truman Show

Analyzing the Truman Show

One physical feature of Seahaven that reeks of a movie-set, is the

disorder or absence of, that typical life indubitably suffers from.

Everything from the dog to the cars, the window cleaner to the mother

pushing the pram is set by the director Christoff on a preset course

round and round their particular area or doing the same job over and

over again. This prevents any chaos from erupting and wipes out the

need for policemen, which we obviously didn't see any in the Truman

Show. Their itinerary is the same everyday and it is bound to be

conspicious, however it is not until the end of the movie that Truman

enlightens upon this fact. Another apparent movie set prop strangely

manifest itself in one of the early scenes of the movie. The specific

scene has Truman alone on the beach his mind consciously wandering

back to the disastrous death of his father by drowning. Abruptly a

downpour of rain falls onto him and no other area of the beach. A

technical difficulty would be the best possible explaination. We the

audience are fully aware that this is the highest likelihood however

Truman has no idea that he is living in the worlds biggest moviestudio

and settled for he is a blessed divination as a justification.

The cinematography draws our attention to the physical features of

Truman's habitat that would belong in a movieset by moving the camera

to awkward angles that not only contains him but also as many of the

objects as feasible. This allows the Truman Show to advertise its

products while filming the main attraction. In some of the scenes

there is also a black fadeout on the camera edges to indicate low

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...e with pretend animals of the same

species. But this cage is tens of kilometres wide and enforced by

bars, rather with something more effective than anything, a lie. In

the interview we are shown that Christoff thinks rather highly of

himself. As he believes that Truman was adopted by his company he

feels he has the rights to be able to do whatever he wants to Truman,

and this includes humililating him as the live star of a television

show.

However what we can't deny is that no matter how much evil Christoff

possesses, and how highly he thinks of himself, he is very, very smart

to be able to make Truman to stay in Seahaven without suspicion for

more than 30 years. Christoff also made a comment that is remarkably

philosical, "Why should we suspect anything? We take the world in

which we live in for granted."