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How Does The Truman Show Affect Society

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We all have our own favorite television show that we like to watch after having a long day at work or school. It gives us time to sit back, relax, forget about our responsibilities, and enjoy our weekly entertainment. The reason why we are able to watch our shows is because we are the reason they stay on air. After watching the film, The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir we get to see how this 24-hour live show was able to stay on for over 30 years because millions of people were watching it every day (Weir). By watching it every day, they became obsessed with Truman’s life. Believing that the show was all real, they wanted to keep watching. When we perceive the audience in The Truman Show as a group of people who are obsessed with “reality” and “drama” media which …show more content…

Since we do have that power over media, we should use it to push for shows that help teach us to be better people instead of wasting our time on shows that don’t.
Media is broadcasted everywhere from our phones, television, and radio. We control what we can hear and see. Since we have that power, it puts us up on a higher pedestal. Without an audience the program dies. Since we as an audience have that higher pedestal, we have more dominance on media productions. The type of shows we like to watch are reality and drama shows. In The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir, towards the beginning of the film we are shown a blank screen that just says Day 10, 909. Which is how many days The Truman Show has been aired and how old Truman is (Weir). By having the show for that many years, shows how the audience hasn’t gotten tired of

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First of all, Truman, the main character, was manipulated throughout his life by the director of the show: Christof and did not realize it until later in life. Furthermore, the director of the film “The Truman Show” used parallelism with the bible to make viewers relate to some parts of the movie. As a matter of fact the Christof made the Truman show a huge marketing success because of product placement throughout Truman's life which also manipulated the viewers of the show to purchase the products from the advertisements from the reality tv show. The Truman Show is a drama genre movie directed by Peter Weir.

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The popular television cartoon Phineas and Ferb, is based around two brother who adventure in everything, due to their abundance of curiosity. Just like the fictional brothers, curiosity proves to be the motivation for many real life situations. In The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, Truman grows up in a seemingly normal life until his curiosity leads him to discover that his life is being showcased constantly on live TV. Weir uses a mix of film elements to create a common theme throughout the movie. Achieved by Weirs filmography, he effectively communicates that curiosity debunks all falsifications.

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Throughout the movie, Truman begins to realize that the whole world revolves around him and how the producers of the show have created his reality, thus developing his sociological imagination. To start,

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The director does this purposely so that the viewers are drawn into the film. This also mirrors the human nature of reality shows. We get addicted to watching a reality show and we base our whole life around that one show. This is shown when the viewers of the Truman Show (the truman bar and the two old ladies) have watched the show since Truman was born. This scene is linked to an early part of the film where Truman lost his dad when he was young.

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