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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. Right at the beginning of the movie, Weir includes background music to intrigue the audience. As soon as Truman is seen, stereotypical, …show more content…

For example, one of the most determining scenes takes place outside at night. In this scenario Truman and Marlon are talking about life while sitting by the beach with the moon illuminating them. Truman tells Marlon about his recent inquisitions while Marlon reassures him of the legitimacy of his life. The fact that this communication takes place at night is purposefully done. Weir chooses to have this exchange occur in a dark setting to symbolize being ignorant. When one is ignorant they can be considered in the dark on certain topics. Having this communication take place in poor lighting after much of the movie having happened in periods of good lighting symbolizes Truman's curiosity about his life being pushed aside into the dark. Weir chooses not only to have a scripted verbal representation of this but also a visual representation to reinstate his claims. In direct opposition to this, at the end of the movie, Truman discovers the truth in full lighting. This choice was to show Truman being enlightened by reality. With light commonly being conveyed as good and dark as bad once Truman comes out of the storm his curiosity finally conceives the truth not only in figurative thought but also visually by the sun coming out. The use of light and dark features helps Weir to broadcast the efforts of curiosity in revealing false

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In both stories, there are more than one realities, there can even be infinite realities. Both relate to the divided line theory and the theory of forms. The Truman Show and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave both raise many questions relating to the basis of human existence. Reality is much more than just the visible world in both stories. They are both symbols for contrasts between ideas and what humans see as

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His every move is captured by hidden cameras and continuously broadcasted to the rest of the world. Everything in Truman’s life is part of a massive television set which is ultimately controlled by Christof, the creator and director of the program. The theme of manipulation is highlighted throughout

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Over the years, philosophers have used critical thinking to question the very idea of reality. The questions about reality posed by Plato in his Allegory of the cave have been the base of several modern day stories and movies. The Truman Show is heavily based off of Plato’s Allegory of the cave. Truman himself can be related to the prisoner who manages to escape the cave. Truman’s similarities to the prisoner can be seen through their lives lived in a false reality and through the symbols that hold them in reality.

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However, one prisoner is released and forced out into the reality, allowing the reader to understand that the world one sees and experiences is not the reality, but rather an illusion. Similarly, in The Truman Show by Andrew Niccol, Truman Bank has been growing up in Seahaven Island, a place created just for him to live in for a television show that is all about him. Throughout the film, Truman realizes that Seahaven is not the real world, and viewers see his journey to get out of this illusion, and into reality outside the false world. Both The Allegory of the Cave and The Truman Show prove that the physical world is an illusion that prevents one from discovering reality. The concept of illusion versus reality is evident in both works through similarities in plot, similarities in symbolism, and differences in character.

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