Truman is captured within a world where everyone around him is fake from his family to his friends to the people he works with. Truman is brought up with the idea that he will be able to achieve greater success in the fictitious world than the real one. Christof, the producer of “The Truman Show”, has created a powerful world of simulacrum, where Truman is seen as the simulation himself. Truman can and will be formed in to anyone that he is wanted to be by Christof. Billy Cowles, the author of Simulacra and Simulations in The Truman Show, states that “Truman will be a simulation produced by the simulacrum in which he lives ”. (7) Truman tries to escape from capitalism and escape from his own ideological world, trying to find himself within the “real” world outside of the
Truman is captured within a world where everyone around him is fake from his family to his friends to the people he works with. Truman is brought up with the idea that he will be able to achieve greater success in the fictitious world than the real one. Christof, the producer of “The Truman Show”, has created a powerful world of simulacrum, where Truman is seen as the simulation himself. Truman can and will be formed in to anyone that he is wanted to be by Christof. Billy Cowles, the author of Simulacra and Simulations in The Truman Show, states that “Truman will be a simulation produced by the simulacrum in which he lives ”. (7) Truman tries to escape from capitalism and escape from his own ideological world, trying to find himself within the “real” world outside of the