Quotes From The Movie 'The Truman Show'

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‘’ we accept the reality that we are given. In this quote from the movie ‘’the Truman

show’’ it is saying that people don't question life that Truman is in. They carry on like a normal life, but in reality they are all acting on the truman show because of christof he made the Truman show because he was afraid to let turman live the real world, Christof didn't want truman to accept reality in the real world, because he wanted him to live a easy life. If someone grew up only knowing one way of life that a person can generally they don't question the way life they are living. because that’s all turman knows because he grew up in a trapped in virement. When Truman finally found out that he was living on a tv set he started to question people,

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