Gives you a lot to think about

Rating: 8/10 (27 April 2020)

The Truman Show was a great film. The time I spend watching it I was engaged, and I thought it did a great job of mixing in comedy without getting rid of the more serious aspects of the film. It made me think a lot about what I would have ended up doing in the situations Truman was put it; for instance, would I have had the guts to leave Seahaven after so long?
Christof found a way to become god-like, and to many around the world who watched the Truman Show, he was probably considered a hero of sorts. But to Truman and Sylvia, he was a great villain. Trapping Truman in this picture perfect, happy-go-lucky town gave Christof complete control of every piece of his life. For Truman, once he realized things weren't as they seemed, he started to see that nothing in life was his choice, nothing belonged just to him except Sylvia, and his escape at the end to find her and
start his own life is sort of like the risks we take in life, to pursuit something that feels far away or out of the question.
I think that when Christof said, "we accept the reality of the world with which we're presented," he was partly right. I mean, we grow up understanding the things around us, the routines and the constants. Why would we have any reason to question what we've known our whole lives? If we could change our realities, we wouldn't learn half as much as we do. If every time we failed a test in school or didn't get the job we just decided, 'hey, no, I'm just going to change that,' we'd lose so much valuable life experience. Our lives would be more fake than real.
In all, I thought The Truman Show was really, quite excellent.