Truman's Constructed Reality

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Truman is better off making the choice to leave the constructed reality because he deserves a life just like any other human being. Christof taking Truman when he was a baby and putting him in this constructed reality was cruel and out of his decision. At the end when Christof was trying to persuade Truman to stay at his constructed reality he made it seem as a utopia place when in reality it isn’t because his whole life was a lie. Christof would have done anything to keep Truman in that constructed reality including killing Truman himself. He didn’t want Truman to find what the real reality was so he kept him in there for his life. Truman didn’t want to stay in that place, when he found out that it was a knockoff of the real world even then

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