In today’s society the way we live life is very different to what you might see in a reality television show. Our lifestyles are determined by free will and examples that are set by others. But what if someone was in control of all that was going on around you and how what people interacted with you? As if they were playing god of this made up world where a director would be in charge of everything from weather to time and all of what goes on inside this fake world. It would probably be wrong for anyone to do this to a person. This leads me to “The Truman Show.”
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 to give their viewers a thrill while watching these shows. For example 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 would be playing god by setting up this environment for the cast of “The Real World” to live in and also having it monitored for a series. 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 like a fight between a cast member and a random person at a club or something of that matter, which would not be a fixed situation.
Christof of “The Truman Show” plays god 100%. With the power to control the weather to controlling life all around the main character Truman Burbank. Although Truman thinks he might be living a regular life he is unaware that he is being watched by the world as he lives in a staged world set up 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 opportunity to live a normal life. In a way it was a normal for Truman but, what do the people who are watching this man who is unaware that he is part of a set think? like 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. The major difference between Seahaven and the world as it is today comes down to fate and how it’s not Truman’s fate to live in this staged world and how he has no choice.
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 normal 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 lab rat for an experiment. 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 br some director of a show who you know nothing of and makes everything happen accordingly to how he wants it to. So if Truman really wanted to go to Fiji he would be able to when he wanted and once he got there do what ever he wants.
In conclusion, Christof’s role in Seahaven is really equivalent to god and what he did through out this film was unfair and wrong, because even though he claims to have let Truman live a normal life he never gave him the option. The life that Truman was led to live was not the same life that Christof lived where a cast followed him and monitored his every action from birth. With that being said, what exactly is this normal life that Christof refers to and how is he the one who should determine what is right and wrong in the lifestyle that Truman was set to live? We may never know.
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