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Hydrangea is a short film that shows the contrast between a perfect life on TV and what actually happens when the cameras are off. Sometimes when we watch a TV show or even a commercial, it can be easy to forget that the people acting on screen aren't the people we're seeing. With every situation fabricated and every reaction scripted and the actors given chance after chance to react perfectly, the audience can see a presentation of reality that simply isn't true. Each actor has a life outside…

Like The Matrix, Inception, or The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, The Truman show causes people to question their own existence in ways that can only be understood through liberal use of therapists and commercial sex workers. The reason for this is that every single shot is framed to give the audience the feeling that what they see before them is real. Most of the shots are given through static hidden cameras complete with the distortions that those cameras would bring. Peter Biziou, the…

Marlon if this whole life is a big lie and Marlon says “I’ve known you since we were kids...I would never lie to you, Truman”. Even though Marlon feels bad about lying to Truman, he wants to follow the rules and keep his job on the reality tv show. This shows that Marlon is only at stage four in Kohlberg’s stages of moral development because he is maintaining social order with Christoph by following his rules in keeping Truman from knowing the truth. Due to lie, Marlon’s motive to maintain…

person’s skin to create color. White is seen as “the absence of color,” which says that being able to produce melanin is normal and is something everyone should be able to do. Because whites lack this basic capability, they consciously or unconsciously show aggression and hatred towards melanin-rich individuals. They started to associate having melanin producing capabilities with also having negative characteristics (Welsing 4-5; ch. 1). Welsing argues that whites have created a system in which…

job and kind wife until he starts to suspect that his life is a fake. The town Seahaven is a extremely big hollywood studio, which can be seen from space, where the world’s most famous reality show is recorded, The Truman Show is broadcasted to the entire world all the time. The main character of the show is Truman, who doesn’t know that his life is fake and everybody else are actors, even his parents and wife. Truman was adopted by the film company right after he was born, they raised him in…

Nothing compares to the flamboyant peculiarity of fairs. These world-wide extravaganzas are among the most bizarre place in this world. Both State Fairs and County Fairs alike use their exotic foods, their new products, and their “cute” barn animals to draw in more people. Walking down the street, performers pop up every minute performing amazing feats of balance, agility, and magic. Even every once in awhile, a lucky guess at your age, weight, or birthday will amaze all the surrounding people.…

and more popular. With the popularity of television, TV shows largely enrich people’s entertainment and become the main way to convey information. People are attracted to different styles of TV shows. In the United States, there is a program called "The Daily Show", which is famous for criticizing traditional news. In the show, a comedian plays the role of host, and ridicules the traditional current news with humor. Though the “The Daily Show” is not as formal as the traditional news…

their own destruction and downfall The Truman Show is a film directed by Peter Weir. The film outlines the story of the main character, Truman Burbank who has no knowledge that he is on a live television show that airs twenty-four hours each day. In a significant scene Truman becomes paranoid due to the fact that everything around him is not what it appears to be. The director uses sound, actors performance, symbols and camerawork effectively to show the…

As a child, my favorite thing to watch on TV was The Cosby Show. When the show was on, I was a Huxtable. And in reality, I was still pretty damn close to being a Huxtable. I was the youngest child of a black, upper middle-class family that resided in New York. My parents both had post-graduate degrees – in fact my father, like Heathcliff Huxtable, was a good-humored physician. Just like the Huxtables, we were a nuclear family of seven: two cis-gendered married parents with five spirited children…

properties is the vital ingredients of happiness. These people think that success is judged by the things individual possesses. In the book Feed by M.T. Anderson, the film The Truman Show by Peter Weir, and the articles “We Are What We Consume” by Ian Zimmerman and “Consumerism and its Discontents” by Tori DeAngelis, they show materialism in a society and how the consequences of pursuing materialistic lifestyle are the inability to reach the state of happiness in one’s life. In a…