Blog 6

The Truman Show was a quiet interesting film that made me think about things in regard to the how a television network can play god on a series and how some of the reality shows we see today are fixed for drama and other elements that give them a higher rating for their show. Take a show like the real world where random people are put to live in a random house with each other and have to adapt to their environment and learn to live with each other. In a way you can say that the producer of the real world is playing god by setting up this environment for the cast of the real world to live in. But the differences between the Real World and the Truman show is that, what ever happens while the real world's cast is in public is not fixed and there is always chance for the unexpected to happen for example a fight between a cast member and a random person at a club or something of that matter, would not be a fixed situation. In my Opinion, Christof of the Truman show plays god just about 100%. With the power to control the weather to controlling life all around the main character Truman Burbank who thinks he might be living a regular life but is unaware that he is being watched by the real world as he lives in a staged world set to revolve around him and doesn't know it. Christof refers to the real world as a sick place and that Seahaven is the way the world should be and also that he's given Truman the lead to a normal life. In a sense it would be normal for Truman but, what do the people who are watching this man who is unaware that he is part of a set think about what kind of lives they are living and how they can relate to what goes on in Seahaven? There is no one playing god in their world as Christof is pretty much doing for Seahaven. If I were in Truman’s position and was presented the choice to remain in Seahaven, a place where I would have been promised that I would have nothing to fear or to enter into another world that I know little about, I would leave to this new world because after realizing that my life was part of a show and all my decisions are staged I would feel as if I were a ginny pig for an experiment that could one day turn to a reality by some sort of conspiracy by the government. With that being said when Truman finally exits Seahaven, what I think he would expect to find is a completely different world where everything that happens is based upon free will and not some creator of a show who makes everything happen accordingly to how he wants it to.