Film Summary: The Truman Show

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1- The Ordinary World
The Truman Show, starts with the Hero (Truman) living in what he thinks his real world while it is just a Tv show that other people are watching somewhere in the world. Everybody in the show knows that this is not real life except for him. He is the star but he doesn’t know. He feels there is something odd about the way things around him work, and how people know him and therefore he tries to find out what is going on around him.

2- The call to adventure
Truman never been abroad and all he wants is to travel (go to Fiji.) People in the movie (executive producer Christof , the wife, his best friend,) know that if he went to Fiji for real, he would find out about the show so they try to stop him by trying to change his mind about traveling. 3- Refusal of the call
He doesn’t refuse the call for adventure, but the people around him do. First, Christof sends his father back to life “Truman thinks his real father is dead until he sees him as a homeless in the street.” Second, his wife leaves him after she tries a lot to halt him from traveling to Fiji. Third, his best friend shows up every time Truman faces a breakdown with six pack (beer) and talks to him hoping he could change his mind.

4- Meeting the mentor
Truman meets Sylvia when he is
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His wife is an actress that only cares about her income so she doesn’t care about him, but she cares about the show. Therefore, she tries to stop him and changes his mind a lot. She is one of his enemies. His best friend is not sure whether he should help him or not, he feels guilty but this is his job. Truman trusts his friend for a while until he realizes that the only thing he should trust is his instincts. The executive producer Christof of the show doesn’t consider himself as an enemy to Truman but he is. Even though he adopted him, raised him, and made him a star, he still the enemy for almost killing

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