The Truman Show

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

company at birth. He becomes the star of the television programme, but

he has no idea that his life is being filmed. All the people in his

life, such as his wife, best friend, and colleagues are actors. There

are no set scripts. There are three different worlds shown in the

film: Truman's world, the producer's world, and the real world when we

see the viewers watching the programme in the homes.

The film starts when Truman is twenty-nine. We see him begin to become

suspicious, by odd occurrences, such as a light falling from the sky,

the way his friends and family advertise things, and people that

accidentally get on the show and tell him things.

Truman has always wanted to travel, but obviously he can't because the

set of 'The Truman Show' is only one town. He saw his father 'die'

whilst they were sailing together, and the fictional director of 'The

Truman Show' did this so Truman would be thalassophobic, and wouldn't

want to travel that way. Eventually he wants to get out of the town

because of all these suspicions, and he gets delayed for ages trying

to go by car. He plucks up the courage to go by boat and after sailing

for a while he hits a backdrop with clouds painted on it. Christof's

voice is heard and he speaks to Truman, though he can't be seen. He

tries to persuade Truman to stay in the world he created for him, and

tells him that he is the star of a television show. Truman finds a

door, and after some conversing with Christof, he leaves.

The director's intentions

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Peter Weir was the director of the film, 'The Tru...

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...ch as a busy pub all watching, the two

old ladies, the security guards, the man in the bath, and Sylvia. We

also see shots from the producers control room, so in this last

sequence we see from all of the three worlds that we se at different

stages in the film. Up until now, the different worlds are shown, but

they're quite spaced out in the film. In this last sequence, we see

them a lot more regularly, instead of just Truman's.

It almost seems that we see from the audience more to show that Truman

is going to be in that world soon. People from the different worlds

are coming together, because Truman's left, and the production team

will all be out of jobs. This is important because there is a lot in

the film saying that the real world is a bad place, but in the end

it's where we all come from, and where we all belong.