Our Trumanistic Lifestyles

I just recently watched the movie The Truman Show, and added it to my profile favorites, because of the eye opening message that unavoidably captures your mind and makes it analyze every aspect of your lifestyle, and twist and turn the meaning of life. I don't know if you have seen it so I will give a short summary of the movie before I try and tell you my thoughts on it.

Basically it starts out in this perfect town, with a 30 yr. old man living out a typical day of his life. To the viewer things seem different than a normal world, things seem surreal and fake, put on and overdone.The strange thing is that it is perfectly normal to him, Truman. The same people, in the same places, everyday. The perfect streets and buildings and town. And then as the movie progresses, he encounters some mind boggling things, such as seeing his father (who had drowned in the ocean when he was a boy,)and 2 people came out of nowhere and dragged the dad away, or the radio in his car geting messed up, with the man was saying everything he was doing, every street he was turning on, etc. All these happenings one after another seemed to undermine his very mindset and lifestyle and the fabric of his home, Seahaven. Even out of stress and confusion, brought to mind, a strange event in High school with a girl who said she wasn't allowed to talk to him, whose very character was a mystery, and who said to him that his life was fake, and that even the sand they stood on was also. She warned him, as she was being taken away, that his life was being watched. This is the whole turning point of the movie where it all makes sense, and where he starts to discover the truth. After that you realize that his whole life was controlled and and monitored and watched by millions of people around the world as a reality TV show. His life was a billion dollar business. The owner of the show spent his life controlling and watching another's. Truman had no privacy and nothing real, his life was a game, a mere thing that was disregarded for the sake of entertainment. As soon as Truman realizes the reality of his life, he is put into a twirl of confusion. He tries to leave but he can't because of a lifelong fear of the ocean (since his fathers death,) he can't get past the edge of the island. Then finally he does it, he conquers his fear and leaves. He is missing, and not a single one of the 5,ooo cameras could find him. The creator of the show, Cristoph, is put into panic, his fortune maker is missing. Until he realizes that not even a human life is controllable. Cristoph has taken for granted the fact that Truman would never doubt the reality of his surroundings. Just as any human would, he accepted the life with which he was given. He had no other reality to compare it to and therefore he thought it was the only. Even Cristoph admits it in the movie, when asked why Truman hadn't doubted anything before, " We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented, it's as simple as that."

I am going to stop here and continue on another day, but I want you to think about it. Why would our American lifestyles be similar to Truman's? I will post later explaining my reason, but until then I hope that your mind turns this around the way it did for me.