The Truman Show

Media is all around us in our lives. In The Truman Show, Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey, is born and raised on a 24/7 TV series. Truman is a man whose life is a fake. The place he lives in is in fact a huge studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him are actors who play roles in the popular TV-series called the "The Truman Show". Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea about how his life is actually being filmed. Until one day, he finds out everything. He had no idea that his whole life was fake and everything was made up for him.

A Utopian view of media is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system.
A dystopia view of media is the idea of a society, generally of a speculative future, characterized by negative, anti-Utopian elements, varying from environmental to political and social issues.


There is a line between PUBLIC and PRIVATE. Public is what everyone can see and private is what you don't want the public world to see. Truman's life was made public, he had no privacy from the world. Everything was caught on camera from his first steps, first love, wedding, and when he slept at night.

 

 

There's a border between real life and performance, but in most cases in the real world you can't ever tell when someone is being real or when someone is being a fake. But in The Truman Show all those people in his life were being fake(performance) to him; they were acting in the TV show that his life was about. The only person that was trying to be real to him was Sylvia, but she was taken away from him when she was trying to tell him the truth.

 

 

Reality TV is not real at all. It should be real in every way possible, but once people find out they are on TV they act a different way, a way that makes them look "better" but really it makes them look worse and like a fake. They should just be themselves on TV.

 

 

 

"We accept the world to as we are presented"