Explain how “The Truman Show” satires the American dream. - page 1
Keywords: Truman Show, Movie analysis, film analysis, American dream, Media coursework
By abdul on 20/11/2006
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
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“The Truman Show” Assignment
Explain how “The Truman Show” satires the American dream.
“The Truman Show” is a movie of rhetorical manipulation that enhances awareness people of the television and news manipulators who are surrounding us everywhere. This message is conveyed by showing a series of fateful events in the life of Truman.
“The Truman Show” seems as if is just a cameo of contemporary American small town life. The town “Seaheaven” is a very pleasant, clean, and stereotypical the centre of the American dream that considers the perfect place that Americans dream of, where there is no crimes, no bad weather everybody has money and all the neighbors are friends. The central character is Truman who has grown up, and lives, in the town full of actors where he is the only real thing in the whole town and every thing else is artificial and fabricated. His wife, his mother, his best friends and all the people living in the town are actors who are designed to make his life seems as a normal life in a normal city where Truman has no idea about the giant TV studio and the cameras, and that is why he is very spontaneous man. Where there are 5000 hidden cameras planted around the city broadcasting Truman’s movements, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, to millions of audience through television screens. The town is a studio set enclosed in a giant dome decked out with high technology simulations, where the ceiling is prepared to create the illusion of sky, even rain, clouds, sun, wind, stars, night, storms and moon are created and controlled by the special effects department.
A producer/director called Christof controls the special effect department that is placed in the moon which is located very high in the sky and never moves. Christof has got unlimited power and he is the strongest character in the film, but he really loves Truman in a fatherly manner that can be seen easily by the way he was touching the screen while Truman was asleep, also when he was touching Truman’s picture. Christof is shown as a man with no emotions who is ready to do anything he thinks will help him to sell the show. Truman’s wife, Meryl, is a clean nurse that is seemed to be supportive and stereotypical. However, she is a very clean woman whose home is always very tidy and clean,
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