Awareness that we are actors is the turning point of the drama called capitalism as it was for the Truman Show. The master reveals his fascist core. Yet he can't do this too early in the game. It gives away the magic. When those in power act like they are in power, the battle lines are clear.
Class consciousness is transparent.
The slaves know whose house to burn down during their uprising. Serfs under feudalism knew whose heads to lop off in the guillotine. Capitalism, on the other hand, has, through the process of reification, veiled its authoritarian core. It is when the actors get uppity that the director has to risk baring his real agenda and crack down. When the character that played Truman's dad snuck back on the set, the innocuous woman with the dog and the man in the suit suddenly broke out of their roles and turned Gestapo.