Cinematography In The Truman Show

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The movie that entitled “The Truman Show” gives an image of a world where benefit motive has destroy human life to the impulse of mass entertainment. Truman lives in a fake, profit motivated world, where culture has been replaced with a Utopian view of the American middle class. The social science fiction film directed by Peter Weir take advantage of a diverse variety of camera and visual skills to support the idea that the main character named “Truman” is the target of a precisely detailed and ruined reality. The protagonist’s role is the uninformed subject of a reality show which indulges to the whims of the entertainment industry. Truman suddenly thrown into a precarious situation, where everything he knows is a not true and a lie. The film is an impressive case because the director uses skills that are controlled by the some of the characters within the narrative. The cinematography in the movie used to demonstrate how much romance, value and the meaning of the world corrupt has out of society. …show more content…

During the scene which Truman is re-united with his impostor father, the producer of the show utilizes a camera hidden in a button to view Truman’s reaction through a close up shot. The Truman show also serves as a commentary about the American dream, camera skills are utilized to capture the Utopian view of the show, and detail how in the end it is not realistic. A medium shot early on in the film serves this purpose, which frames the travesty that is the happiness of those around him. As Truman approaches his workplace he is stopped by two twins whose histrionic acting serves as the ultimate symbol for the prescribed happiness of the capital driven American