The Truman Show is an excellent movie with many different satirical elements to enhance viewer experience

Rating: 9/10 (10 September 2014)

The Truman Show is an excellent movie that uses many different literary tools of satire to improve the storyline. It uses tools such as irony, deflation and target effectively within the plot.
It uses irony to illustrate how he can't leave the island because he's afraid of water, yet at the same time yearns to travel. This is highlighted throughout the entire movie as he considers leaving to travel and find a certain someone. The other bit of irony found is when the director says that Truman can leave at anytime if he really wished to. However, you see that he is blocked at every turn trying to figure out what is going on and trying to leave.
It's also a blame by praise thing. The director of the show and everyone who watches doesn't see Truman as being free to live his own life, making the viewer realize that he really isn't in charge of his own life at all, no matter what the people behind the camera want you to think. In fact, the people behind the camera are the ones controlling his life.
To go along with that, they downplay important values that are essential or at least taken for granted by us. Values such as freedom to do what you want, privacy and the right to your own life. His life is not his own, essentially. Yet, he is deceived into thinking it is.
I feel that the target of this piece of satire is audiences who take for granted the freedoms that they are given such as, the freedom to your own life and the freedom to your privacy.