The Truman Show Essay

Relating to the Marxist perspectives of Adorno and Horkheimer, we can understand how the use of social networking as the medium explored in the film is tactical, in order to encourage larger audience profits. With Facebook having over a billion users, that ensures that over a billion people have an invested interest in that topic. Thus leading to a guarantee of a peeked interest surrounding the film. Critics also enjoyed the film and “received it with something close to ecstasy”(rollingstnoe). Perhaps critiques enjoyed the film due to an already experienced relationship with Facebook as I'm sure many had. Also, social networking based companies are constantly appearing in the business world, everyone thinks they can penetrate the market by

In The Truman Show his “fake” wife is an actress on the set, only used to move Truman’s story along in the typical social sense (married, then have children). While Sylvia/Lauren’s character is used to propel Truman’s sense of paranoia about his world, and give him a goal to reach outside of the fake Seahaven world. In The Social Network the female characters are even more minute. The first girl we see is Marks ex girlfriend, they are breaking up in the scene. She propels him to create Facesmash out of hate for females. The other female character we get is Eduardo's typical “crazy girlfriend” character who doesn’t do much except impose stress on Eduardo and act as an object for the male gaze. And the female lawyer at the end, who has maybe 6 lines. This is typical for a Sorkin film, as research has been done to show his female characters are usually passive and overemotional. “Researchers suggest that stereotypes in fictional portrayals have a powerful impact and that humans do not view the world neutrally but as a part of “an active construction that incorporates our past memories and expectations as well as the current context”. The latter part of that sentence shows how the culture industries constant repacking leads to real life impacts because it has created