Research Paper On The Truman Show

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page” (Saint Augustine). Saint Augustine said this around 400 A.D. and The Truman Show expresses this through it’s movie. The Truman Show, is a show in where a company video tapes everything one man does. That man is Truman; the company adopted him, and used his fake life in a small town to gain millions of views. Truman is trapped in this town and cannot experience the world that he wants to see. So, Peter Weir, the director, suggests that humans have a curiosity about the unknown, and traveling fulfils that need.

Truman has never gone out of Seahaven in his life. The people in Seahaven try to make it seem like the outside world isn’t good at all. At the beginning of the Film Truman’s

Truman has always had the memory of Sylvia because it was something unusual that happened to him. Also Sylvia was a changed person after she was taken off the show, and she started a campaign to get Truman off the show. Weir is saying that after traveling people become different because of the experiences. Living in a small town only allows a person a certain number of experiences. That brings me to my next example which happens multiple times throughout the film. That example is when he comes out of his house for the first time each day, he looks at his neighbors and says, “Good morning, hey and if I don’t see ya, Good afternoon, and goodnight” (The Truman Show). He says that to the same people every single day, and not to mention the fact that Truman sees the same people in the same place every single day. In small towns you don’t see a routine like in the Truman show, but everybody knows each other on a good level. Not saying that’s bad but Wier says that in order to experience life to the fullest, people should get out of their comfort zone and meet new people. At the end of the film Truman has the choice to either stay in the small town or leave and experience the world. Truman choses to leave and probably didn’t even think about staying. Weir suggests that people in a small town truly want to get out of it, but their family might want them to stay. Just like