Since The Truman Show has no commercials, this cast pitches products during everyday conversations. Truman isn't so appreciative of all that work. One day he's selling insurance and the next he discovers he's lived 30 years as a pawn in the ratings game. Our hero starts realizing his whole life is a sham and starts pondering how to break out. If the viewer can suspend disbelief over the concept, this is engrossing, Kafkaesque fantasy.
Metaphors pile on metaphors in The Truman Show .
A viewer can read media manipulation, postmodernism, fascism, and every imaginable problem of the 20th century into this movie. Plus the story plays itself out without being heavy-handed. This is the best mass-market philosophical conversation starter since Schindler's List. Vietnam with valor Hollywood never wants to let go of Vietnam. Vann's an officer who thinks Vietnam is winnable but that Westmoreland and company don't know how to win it.