Once The Scenario Is Established...

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2013)

...where can the movie go? A man discovers, at the age of 30, that his life has been entirely a manipulated television show, and the world around him a stage set and the people around him actors. The scenario necessarily requires quite a lot of suspension of disbelief, and is meant to convey a message. Director Christof does not merely want to keep his show alive; Truman was an unwanted baby, and Christof deliberately wants to keep Truman in his cocoon world to prevent him seeing the world outside and how bad it is, and does everything he could to discourage Truman from wanting to leave.
Basically, the story is predictable. Once Truman knows the world around him is manipulated, why would he bother to stay? If he can leave the cocoon, why wouldn't he, if he is a normal, healthy man? Really, with everything spoiled, the whole point of the show is lost, and there is no way things could have ended otherwise, so the story's end is actually anticlimactic.