Truman’s Authenticity
Truman Burbank is the star of his own hidden camera reality show The Truman Show ever since he was in his mother’s womb. Christof (the director of The Truman Show) cites Truman’s “authenticity” as the reason that so many people love to watch him because Truman’s emotions and reactions are real the whole time and it made the audience feel a certain way when they watch Truman. With the show share a similarity with the movie Boyhood, about a boy name Madison and we as the audience watch Madison grow up from early childhood to arriving to college. Only thing between the two is that Boyhood is not a reality tv show that is live 24/7, and it is on a real set with the actors have real emotions and reactions. The Truman Show had paid actors to act as his friends and family for a very long time until Truman caught on that his life is really one big lie and it was his time to say goodbye to cameras. …show more content…
We control the medium and the message, but sometimes, it is hard to remember that it is not the other way around. Social media apps sit on our phones calling to us to join the fray. Reality TV is a professional at oversharing as we peer into others’ homes and lives, surveying all that was once considered private. It is a slippery slope with no clear markers along the way. It is easy to begin with the cute and to slip into the gross or invasive. While the audience was witnessing the private emotional meltdowns of Truman are the staple of this genre may have signaled to the rest of us that not only is sharing and oversharing acceptable, it may even be
Truman Burbank is the star of his own hidden camera reality show The Truman Show ever since he was in his mother’s womb. Christof (the director of The Truman Show) cites Truman’s “authenticity” as the reason that so many people love to watch him because Truman’s emotions and reactions are real the whole time and it made the audience feel a certain way when they watch Truman. With the show share a similarity with the movie Boyhood, about a boy name Madison and we as the audience watch Madison grow up from early childhood to arriving to college. Only thing between the two is that Boyhood is not a reality tv show that is live 24/7, and it is on a real set with the actors have real emotions and reactions. The Truman Show had paid actors to act as his friends and family for a very long time until Truman caught on that his life is really one big lie and it was his time to say goodbye to cameras. …show more content…
We control the medium and the message, but sometimes, it is hard to remember that it is not the other way around. Social media apps sit on our phones calling to us to join the fray. Reality TV is a professional at oversharing as we peer into others’ homes and lives, surveying all that was once considered private. It is a slippery slope with no clear markers along the way. It is easy to begin with the cute and to slip into the gross or invasive. While the audience was witnessing the private emotional meltdowns of Truman are the staple of this genre may have signaled to the rest of us that not only is sharing and oversharing acceptable, it may even be