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shows the viewers from an early stage, how false his world really is. This provokes the question asked by many “Why has it taken so long for Truman to begin to figure out there is an entire world revolving around him?” The director profoundly responds, “We accept the reality of the world we’re presented”. Truman does not question why his wife holds up products and sells them as if she was in a television commercial. He does not wonder why lights are falling from the sky; he has not known it to be anything else. The world in which Truman grew up in was so perfect that he himself, has grown up to be a cheerful yet gullible man that christof emotionally tricks.

Sea haven Island may seem like a utopia at first because everyone is happy, Weir slowly reveals the
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Christof is a crucial example of the immorality which is represented throughout the film. During the course of the television show, Christof continuously neglects the special moments and individual feelings felt by Truman by presenting this to the viewers of the show. The director expresses big ideas seen in todays society. The main one, the disrespect for one’s rights and freedom. This is established when Christof organizes the dramatic death of Truman’s father, ending with Truman being traumatically scarred for life, just for the entertainment of the audience and to scare Truman from going to any ends of the island, the ocean. Another big idea is the immoral behavior when christof acts as a God-like character when Truman attempts to escape. This results in Christof controlling the weather to the extent of nearly risking Truman’s own life. Truman is thrown overboard the small boat, facing his biggest fear of Seas.

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