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Truman Show Parallelism

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How can someone live in a utopian and dystopian world at once? Well, The Truman Show(1) represents this perfectly. We convince ourselves that what we see at first instance is reality. When in fact, when we look deeper, we know that we are living “The Truman Show.” We are hiding who we really are while in the public light, yet the truth will eventually come out and “bite you in the ass.” 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. The Truman Show is about a 29 year old man named Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) who seems to be living a perfectly normal life on …show more content…

This represents Jesus walking on water and also represents the stairway to heaven. Christof on the other hand can also be related to the father of Jesus Christ: God. His name, which is Christof is slightly related to Christ. Christof started to get desperate near the end and really wanted Truman to stay because the show would have to be cancelled which would completely ruin Christofs career. The use of his voice showed how you can relate to the Bible story: Adam and Eve. Although the parallelism, The Truman Show had tons of product placement scenes during the

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