Truman Show Truth

The coherence theory of truth, a widely believed idea and could explain truth altogether, gives a great perspective on how The Truman Show works. According to the coherence theory of truth, “I know a certain belief is true by holding it up against all of my other beliefs. If that belief is consistent with my other beliefs, then it is true; if it contradicts my other beliefs, then it is false” (“Truth,” p. 17). This theory fundamentally says that, if all of my beliefs match up with this one foreign belief I have yet to come across, then it must be true. For this theory to be accurate, there must be a baseline of belief that is already true to oneself. This theory is brought up many times throughout the film and gives a good explanation of how

Certain things like the set piece falling from the sky or the storm over Truman are only small bits that moved Truman to start questioning his reality. The things that really pushed Truman over the edge of denial is when Lauren showed up in his life. This love interest was never supposed to happen, yet it did. Truman had become obsessive with this character in the film, and it just so happened to be someone who disagreed with the show altogether. Lauren, also known as Sylvia outside of “The Truman Show,” had tried to sway Truman from believing his reality was true, but before she got any important information to him, the production team had taken her away. The most important part of this is Lauren’s ‘father’ had said that they were moving to Fiji; so, Truman, throughout the film, wanted to go to Fiji to find them. The only thing keeping Truman from leaving the island of Seahaven was his ‘father’s’ dramatic death at sea. Ever since this traumatic experience, Truman had been deathly afraid of the water. However, after a while, his father had returned, taking away any fear he had of the open sea. This had allowed him to leave without any worry of death. Even when the storm had hit him, almost to death, he felt as though he had to leave in order to find his truth. The way that all of these occurrences tie into the coherence theory is through the way Truman compares all of the new information he’s being given to his older beliefs of him living on this island. However, he does discover that it wasn’t the new information that was false, but it was everything he had known since he was a