The Truman Show convey a series of messages by depicting a series of fateful events in the life of Truman Burbank, who has grown up, and lives, in a fake town full of actors. The town, enclosed in a giant dome decked out with high-tech simulations of sun and sky, in which the rain and wind are courtesy of the special effects department. Truman alone has no idea he is in a giant TV studio, as the rest of humanity watches him do from one staged situation to another in a nonstop telethon of reality programming that allows the whole world to experience the trials and tribulations of one man.
In the movie, the time of Truman life are portrayed as a counter in the control room this counter is in the form of days and this is the length of time, the show has been on the air.
This paradise starts to breakdown after the crew makes mistakes. This causes the seamlessness of the illusions to break down. This allows Truman to figures out that his surroundings are full of staged scenes and events. He tries to make his escape, only to come up against both his fears, which keep him from leaving, and the obstacles put in his way by the producer-director who has made billions trapping him in a stage set and playing God.
This showed in the movie whened he was outside and a light from the ceiling fell within a few feet of him. When he was running around after his paranoia set in and saw a back of the elevator not there. His fears manifested when he tried to cross the water in order to get on a ferry. As well as when he tied to cross the bridge to get on the other side of river. Which buy the way he does, but another obstacles prevented him for leaving.
Thus, does the movie offer us a metaphor for our own situation? The fake landscape Truman lives in is our own media landscape in which news, politics, advertising and public affairs increasingly made up of theatrical illusions. Like our media landscape, it is convincing in its realism, with lifelike simulations and stories lines.
