New Experiences In Peter Weir's Film 'The Truman Show'

Peter Weir uses a selection of cinematic forms to express the challenge of new experiences in his film The Truman Show, and through theses cinematic forms he is able to visually present the idea of the challenge of new experiences. In Weirs film, all of his characters such as Truman faces new experiences and the challenges that comes with it. Weir selects the ideas of overcoming fear, trust and control, for his characters to visually show the audience the challenge of new experiences with the use of cinematic forms.

One of the ideas that Weir orchestrates to show the challenge of new experiences in The Truman Show is overcoming fear. This was explored early on in the movie when Truman was ask to go on a boat for work. From the very first …show more content…
The characters that surrounds Truman’s everyday life like Meryl and Marlon do their best to build a strong relationship with Truman, get his trust and make sure he never leaves Seahaven. Marlon his best friend since little uses the idea of trust when he calms Truman down about leaving Seahaven in the sunset talk scene. Weir boosts the scene with the cinematic form of lighting, the warm colours of the sunset creates a perfect mood implicating that the location is perfect and all
Truman can do is trust his best friend. The idea of trust is torn apart when Truman notices his wife’s fingers crossed in a wedding photo, this is the beginning of the ripple effect as Truman experiences the feeling of betrayal and wanting the truth. The scene that follows starts with a fast pace, insightful non-diabetic music. Weir uses the music to highlight Truman’s new experience of wanting to find out the truth and creates a fast pace action pact scene. The challenges rises as the actors on set does everything they can to stop Truman from discovering the truth, when they almost threw their bodies to stop Truman from seeing his wife working thus showing the challenge of this new found experience that Truman has. Weir is able to use cinematic forms such lighting and music in a way to assist in visually representing the challenge of new …show more content…
“Nothing you see on this show is fake. It’s merely controlled.” Marlon actor interview. This quote suggest that the show is real but it’s controlled in every way, Truman is the only one that isn’t controlled as everyone else around him are actors who follow specific instructions and have lines to follow from Christof the creator of the tv show The Truman Show and his team for example the man with flowers that incidentally walks around Truman’s block everyday. Weir uses a pan shot of the central business district to show the audience that everything is indeed controlled, from the movement of the people and vehicles to the vagrant colours of the scenery every is being controlled. Christof develops the experience of dictatorship or being a godlike figure, from the moment Truman was alive he has planned his life from his first day at school to his first shift at the new job Christof as planned it all. Through the mistakes of the crew, Truman is able to break free of the lie and sets sail for realism. Christof is expose to a new experience when he almost killed Truman by implicating a category five storm on him. Weir captures Christof’s experience with the use of close up camera shots to capture his emotions and this cinematic form helps indicate this new experience that Christof is feeling on how Truman is defying him and how it’s challenging his