...response paper I will talk about the movie “Truman Show”. And some opinions and results which I got from it and the movies connection with popular culture First of all, I’ll start from the content of the movie. The main character is someone “who has been adopted by a company for the first time”, called Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), who lives in a giant jar which can be seen from the space (the only building can be seen from space after the The Great Wall) unaware of the World. Truman , who thinks that his little world is “real”, eventually starts to figure out that everything happens around him just about a repetition and everything around him is just about a fiction. However , escaping from his fictional world is not easy as he estimates. Soon, Truman gets forced to face his fears, to go an “unknown” from the world that he is safe inside in order to escape from his “fake world”. In the last scene, director of the Truman Show (Ed Harris) tries to trick Truman (and “of course” the audience).Directors says “ there is nothing better at the “outside”, even inside is better and safe.”. But Truman doesn’t prefer the prison that he is in and escape from it. When I came to my conclusions about the movie is trying to send a message to the audience. For example, in the Truman afraid from sea because he lost her father at sea. Symbolic meanings in any language of the sea means freedom. Truman is afraid of the sea because it is not free. Truman does not exceed the sea following the exit...
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...Truman During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. He grew up in Independence, and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer. He went to France during World War I as a captain in the Field Artillery. Returning, he married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, and opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court in 1922. He became a Senator in 1934. During World War II he headed the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed. The first use of an atomic bomb in warfare took place on August 6, 1945. The weapon was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the U.S. bomber Enola Gay, instantaneously destroying four square miles in the middle of the population...
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...Blast from the Past and The Truman Show both depict the story about men growing up in an artificial world. Since they are born, they live in a world that is created by others and they do not contact with the real world. However, both of the men in these two movies do not give up their dreams and they are determined. They are eager to get out of the present situation and they have a strong desire to live in the way they like. Finally, through their efforts, they shake off the shackles and both of them lead a free and happy life. Also, there is an interesting thing appears in both movies that the Christian image is mentioned. In Blast from the Past, each time Adam’s family ascent to the ground, the druggies who are religious acolytes are pious and reverent to them, thinking Adam’s family are Father and Son. In The Truman Show, after the vicious storm, Truman emerges from the water in a cruciform position which represents the Jesus after being tortured. Although the style of the two movies is similar, there are a lot of differences between them. First of all, Adam lives in a world full of love and what around him is the beautiful and positive aspect of life. Since he is born, his parents, who are the only person that he can contact with, tell him what the real world is. Moreover, his parents teach him dance, languages and sports. He learns from his parents to be modest, kind and a man of morality. Although his parents create an unreal world for Adam, they are not on...
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...A very thought provoking movie, the Truman show is not only funny but emotionally draining. It gives us a clear picture how the world, blindly revolve around reality television shows. It’s a moral story with visuals that illustrates the extent to which people can go to in order to meet demands for mere entertainment. The movie is smartly directed with unique styles and the script is well acted by Jim Carrey, who plays Truman Burbank, and the rest of the cast. This movie with unknown elements in the exposition will make you paranoid, as you feel great empathy towards Truman throughout the entire movie and curious as to what will happen to him next. The movie lead us into the ups and downs of Truman’s life. Moreover, the Music of the 90’s that was used did justice in representing the feelings of Truman at certain specific moments. It is a heart touching movie and each one of us has something we can relate to. There’s always a time in life where you feel people, or someone, is making use of you. Especially if it’s someone who you love, it hurts. You feel betrayed. That’s exactly how Truman felt. He was heartbroken, so much to the extent that he even threatened to kill his ‘so-called’ wife. However he choose to deal this issue very smartly, determined to find the truth he fooled the cameras and escaped to the ‘made-up’ seas! In the end we see no element of revenge coming from him. Perhaps, we can also relate to Truman as we live in a time of routines. We often will our lives...
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...Truman Show By: Cody Forrest 1. Yes, the world Christof created is as real and full of truth as the outside world in which we live. Truth and what is real, is an individual perception. No one perceives the world exactly the same as another person. So, if someone was to be born onto a stage where his/her every move was being watched and their future was getting mapped out and scripted, their perception of what is real and what is true would be just as logical as our own. This person would have to eat, sleep, and go to work just like everyone else. He/she would even have the same feelings as anyone living in the "outside world". They would be sad if they failed a test, happy if they didn't, and scared that they could've. He/she would wonder about the world and how it was created. They would be curious as to where they'll end up in the future, unknowing of course that their future endeavors have already been planned by someone else. This person would perceive their reality in their own, very real, and very true way. Just like any other living being would do. In these ways, Christof's created world, is able to be as real and full of truth as the one in which we live everyday. 2. This is very possible. Their is no way to tell the difference between a fabricated world and a "real" one, as long as the fabricated one doesn't have any holes, or mistakes. In the movie, Truman had no suspicions at all that his life was just one big stage until the actors or other employees messed...
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...The Truman Show Essay “We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented.” That is what Christof answers, when somebody asks why Truman never has come close to discovering the true nature of his world. Truman Burbank lives a perfect life in the beautiful and secure town of Seahaven. He has a beautiful wife, good friends and family and is a successful man. But what he doesn’t know is that this world he lives in is a set-up. The life he thinks is usual is actually a studio - a big dome with hidden cameras in every corner. He was presented to this “unreal” world, when he was a child, and was born into this TV-shown. That is of course the world he thinks, is the real world. Why should he believe anything else? Truman grew up in that world, without knowing that every step he took was being viewed by the whole world. All his friends and family plays a role in the most viewed TV-show in the whole world, The Truman Show. Truman accepts his existence in Seahaven. He doesn’t think that anything is odd, because he hasn’t experienced anything else. Truman does not question his wife’s or friend’s unusual behavior, because it is not unusual for him. He doesn't wonder why everything happens at the same time every day, there hasn’t happened anything else. Each person’s reality is their perspective. He accepts the world, he lives in. Christof, the producer and creator of the show, has followed Truman since the beginning. He almost feels like a father to him, but that is also...
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...The Truman Show There are many different films and genres, but there is one film that both provides a different outlook and is entertaining at the same time. The Truman Show is a movie that is about a man named Truman Burbank whose entire life was televised and set up since birth without his knowledge, which eventually realizes due to a series of events. This TV show was created by a man named Christof, who is in charge of Truman’s life, the actors around him and the enclosed city he built for Truman, called Seahaven. The Truman Show is a good film because of the psychological effect by the idea of the film, the difference between the real world and a perfect world, and the many religious connotations with it and allusions to God. One way this movie psychologically affects our perspective and helps us become a bit more aware because the movie shows Truman Burbank as a normal, regular person whose life was completely setup by a director. Similarly, humans were placed on this earth so perfectly, that everything feels normal with no sign of suspicion that could alter the vision of life. This movie also brings a sense of paranoia, by feeling watched at all times and to confuse the people in one’s life as actors, just like in the movie. Of course, those are just the temporary effects of watching such a movie, as with any other movie that alters the thought process. It seems as if the creator of the show, Christof, really wanted to prove that the world he created is safe and considered...
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...film techniques… In the film ‘The Truman Show’, director Peter Weir shows many ways of manipulation through film techniques such as camera angles, background music and camera frames. He shows in the film how a viewer can be so mindlessly absorbed by others surrounding them on television. The director also shows how easily our minds can be involved and enwrapped in a storyline or plot, and how this can affect the way we see things and how our perspective on reality can change from this film manipulation. Some of the films techniques that are used to draw in an audience or manipulate them are screen shots such as close ups, extreme close-ups, mid-shots, long shots and extreme long shots. Generally in TV shows such as ‘Big Brother’ or ‘American Idol’, close ups are used to show deep emotion. For example, in ‘The Truman Show’, Truman is given a close-up when reuniting with his Father after many years of separation. In this close-up Truman appears to be crying with happiness and loss, which in many cases would influence the way the audience feels, possibly making some cry of happiness or making them feel overwhelmed with emotion. Close-ups are just one of the few types of screen shots that draw in an audience and are a much-used technique in the film ‘The Truman Show’. Another film technique commonly used in ‘The Truman Show’ is music. Music plays an important role in films to lighten, deepen or strengthen the mood of a scene. During ‘The Truman Show’, we see Christof often conducting...
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...this, it is extremely dreadful and agitating. Anybody can simply watch what he is doing and see him. He has no privacy. When Truman does find out about this he can create fears that he is always being viewed. Those feelings of dread would then be able to keep him from...
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...The Puppeteers of The Truman Show In The Truman Show, Truman, and to an extent the residents of Seahaven, are under the control of Christof and the viewers. Like the the prisoners in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Truman believes his reality is the true reality. Despite the actors and the illegitimacy of Seahaven, Truman does not know anything else, must like the prisoners only know the shadows on the wall. When Truman begins to realize the fraudulence of his world, he begins his journey to enlightenment. Like the prisoner, he exits the dome and sees the real world for the first time long after he has accepted the realities of his world. For most of his life Truman was a puppet to Christof and, in a way, to the viewers. Since TV is all about...
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...The Truman Show is a motion picture in which the protagonist, Truman Burbank, is broadcasted on live television for the entire world to see. At the age of thirty, Truman discovers that his entire life had been documented from birth and that every individual that he has encountered throughout his lifetime in the town of Seahaven was simply an actor, under the control of Christof, the director. This film raises many issues, including power, itself, more specifically the power of the media, as well as overall morality. The entire purpose of the production was to make a statement about power. One of the most prominent concepts the motion picture attempts to criticize is the evident trend in our society regarding major corporations and their influence. Why is it that in today’s world, if a corporation has enough money, fame, or popularity, it essentially has the potential to entirely dominate the will, rights, actions, identity, and...
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...be done. Congress and the Supreme Court can either challenge or help the Executive branch with every decision that comes through the White House on a daily basis. The relationship with congress during a president’s time in office is crucial to his success. Not much can get done with an entire branch of the government opposing you. If congress helps and then the Supreme Court rules that your legislation is legal than great things can come form a president’s time in office. A large portion of President Obama’s time as a leader of the nation has been spent opposing views of the republican controlled congress. Harry Truman had much of that same difficulty during his tenure. It is hard to look at the past and see the truth but after Truman’s Honey Moon phase of his relationship with congress he had difficulties dealing with the republicans there just like Obama. Truman was quoted as saying “Republicans in Washington have a habit of becoming curiously deaf to the voice of the people” in referring to Republican leaders in Washington (McCullough, p. 661). Obama would most likely agree to this. After a take over of the majority in 2011 Obama has not had significant legislation pass through congress like he did during the first part of his presidency. The Affordable Health Care Act would not have passed if it was being voted on past...
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...At the end of the film we do not see how truman really goes out and experience the real world nor do we see if he goes out to find Sylvia. But my ending of the movie is Truman really does goes out the the done and see the outside world. At the end truman says ‘’In case i don't see ya. Good evening, good afternoon and, goodnight.’’ Then he walks out and when Truman finally walks out he goes thru people trying to stop him on the way out of the done, like for the last time making a last try of making him stay. He finally gets past them and out into the real world. When he gets out into the real world he sees every thing bright and big and noisy. See so many different things he does know what to do. He finally found Sylvia and they moved far far...
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...In the short story “A Christmas Memory” Truman Capote designed the two characters, Buddy and his friend, after Truman’s childhood. When he grew up in Alabama he thought it would deserve a story from the place to the best friend he will forever have. The only way to understand his feelings the reader needs to understand the context of everything that is carried out throughout the story. Mr. Capoter was a fantastic writer who knows how to touch the feelings of every reader by writing with his heart. Welcome to The Truman Show with Mr. Capote’s life playing out in his stories he tells. “Truman Capote drew on his own youthful experience in rural Alabama to write ‘A Christmas Memory.’” ( SSFS Vol.2 21) This experience helped his stories have something to reflect on. Growing up in Monroeville, Alabama with 4 cousins made him need a friend. That Friend was his female cousin sook. (SSFS Vol.2 21) She was his shield in tough places so after she had died he thought she deserved a work to put with her name. He thought the best way was to practically describe their situation as he was a child. As he goes on through his story he likes to spend his time describing the time she has spent on helping his life for the better....
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...1.The speaker of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is third person omniscient. Although the novel’s more emotional scenes are told in first person by various characters, they’re told through dialogue with another character, most of the novel is narrated by the omniscient narrator. Since the narrator is already all-knowing and gives insight to the thoughts of the characters, this person is static. 2.The purpose of this book is to report on the murder of the Clutter family and its consequences, but in the form of a novel. For example, Truman Capote does not just list facts and dates about the murders, but instead weaves a story together based on his own observations, official records, and interviews. He gives background on the family, opinions...
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