Truman Show Dystopian

     A utopia is a seemingly perfect world, with happiness, honesty, equality, and peace. Although in the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, and the film The Truman Show, directed by Peter Wier, the readers and viewers are presented with a negative utopian society. A negative utopian society is a perfect world that somewhere has gone wrong. The controllers in the novel and film succeeded in achieving complete control and power, which was their attempt to make the ideal society. Each controller has a different threat, in 1984 it is association while in the film, The Truman Show, it is separation from the outside world.

The innate voyeuristic desire to watch other people can be explained in many ways. A lot of people want to watch other people for entertainment. In reality shows they have writers to make the people’s lives seem more interesting, this keeps the viewers entertained. In the Truman Show the people disconnect from their own lives just to watch someone else's life. This might just be a form of wishful thinking. These people might wish their lives were like the person on TV. In the Truman show they say that people will watch The Truman show as comfort, this might seem creepy, but people apparently like watching other people as comfort. In the film they say how the Truman show inspires people. This is an example of how people like to watch other people

The Truman Show is centred on a man-made island called SeaHaven where a man named Truman Burbank has been televised without his knowledge since birth. The show is a 24 hour live tv show where every aspect of Truman’s life is shown. As Truman grows older he begins to notice unsual events that leads him to believe that there is something incongruent with what people are telling him and what he experiences in his day to day life. As Truman begins to test the boundaries he realizes that the town seems to revolve around him and his desire to escape comes to an all time high. Eventually Truman begins on a journey to escape his virtual reality. Despite the boundaries that the director throws at him he eventually escapes and will try to find his way in the real world. This movie made me sympathize for Truman being that he has no privacy and is oblivious to his lack of freedom. This movie shows how it is possible to create an “ideal” community and how New Urbanism can be created and maintained.

The media has been able to manipulate people by making them believe what they say. One example that satirizes the media is a movie called The Truman show. Throughout the Truman show, the main character, Truman Burbank, is trapped in a stage set which he perceives as the real world. As he has lived there for around 30 years he starts to get the perception of being in a false environment. The media plays a big role in our lives as Truman is exposed to the corrupt side of them.

The film, The Truman Show (1998) is about the man named Truman Burbank, a first child who is legally adopted legally by the broadcasting company and been unknowingly publicizing his entire life as an entertaining show to the whole world. Although he lives in the world where everything is manipulated, at least for him, he is just like a normal man with own family, friends, and job. The difference between others and Truman lies on the taboo that Truman has attained through the traumatic event of losing his own father. His taboo is that he is incapable of living the city, Seahaven as leaving the city signifies knowing the truth of his life. The film majorly depicts the moment when Truman realized skepticism around his entire life and departs the journey to find the truth and real identity

Peter Weir’s The Truman Show features the ideas of a utopia, commercialism and the power of media through various film techniques. Mise en scen is used by Weir to show the idea of a utopia. The cinematography is utilised by weir to demonstrate commercialism. Weir also uses editing to convey the power of the media.

The Truman show is a metaphor of our own society. The fake landscape in Trumans eyes is our very own media landscape in which the news, politics, tv shows, celebrity gossip , advertisement, body image and much more is simply made up from illusions. Like our media, it is convincing just like it was in Trumans world, with all the storylines and similarities between his world and the real

The Truman Show is a film which has been developed through a range of images. Peter Weir has creatively directed a film portraying the media and its impact on society. Within this film we see the effectiveness of techniques, which include camera angles, framing, shot types, camera movement, style of music, costuming and sequencing. By using a range of different techniques Weir is able to create emotive images and portray three different worlds to the audience.

'The Truman Show' is the story of a baby who is bought by a television

“5 New Brain Disorder that Were Born Out of the Digital Age” by Tammy Kennon

In the movie The Truman Show the first “way of knowing” which is used that I will explain is Logic. Logic is an immense part of this film. The definition of logic is “reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity”. Truman uses reasoning to figure out that someone does not want him to find out the truth regarding the world he lives in. When he sees a man who resembles his father who “died” he believes that its him but soon the man who is “father” is taken away from him.

The Allegory of the Cave has many parallels with The Truman Show. Initially, Truman is trapped in his own “cave”; a film set or fictional island known as Seahaven. Truman’s journey or ascension into the real world and into knowledge is similar to that of Plato’s cave dweller. In this paper, I will discuss these similarities along with the very intent of both of these works whose purpose is for us to question our own reality.

In watching the movie there was not one moment where there was a an imperfect background. That is not very true. There are imperfect backgrounds in the real world like, views of dumps, buildings, etc. In the Truman show every background was of nature, whether it was water, or forestry. Also in one scene it rains, but only where truman is standing until later when he realizes it, it starts to pour in the general area.

The definition of human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. But what we see in the novel is that people live without their basic human rights. All patients in the ward are under control by a dictator, nurse Ratched. However, when Randle McMurphy gets admitted and tries to challenge the system that was established by nurse Ratched, the patients begin to take him as their spiritual leader. Later their rebellion can be seen as people struggle to stay human in a world where all of his human rights are trying to be stripped away.

I think this symbolizes that Truman is a larger, more important character than Christof. I also remember that the camera would zoom in on someone when they were showing a product instead of using commercials to advertise a product. A few camera views showed Christof's Facial expressions very well. Truman got had camera that got close ups of him as Christof never seemed to be zoomed in unless there was a dramatic scene.