Comment On The Truman Show

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Having enough courage to face up a new life --------The comment of The Truman Show One day, when you find that everybody who around you cheats you and everything around you is false, what will you do? Whether you have enough courage to change it and get away of it or not just like Truman do. The Truman Show is a 1988 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir.The film was a financial and critical success, and earned numerous nominations at the 71st Academy Awards, 56th Golden Globe Awards, 52nd British Academy Film Awards and The Saturn Awards. The Truman Show has been analyzed as a thesis on Christianity, simulated reality, existentialism and the rise of reality television. The story of the play is :30 years ago the OM Nikon television production company adopted a baby, who was painstakingly cultivated to be the world's most popular documentary soap opera –The Truman Show's heroine. And they made great success. However ,there was one person who did not know anything ,that is the heroine–Truman.Truman has lived his entire life ,since before birth in a comfortable town called Seahaven which was a giant photostudio in fact. He was a broker of a insurance company and he seemed to live a life same with others. While he did not know that there were hundreds of vidicons around him every second, that the world watched him all the time, that even his wife and friends and all other people were actors of The Truman Show. Although it seemed that everyone paid attention to him, and every thing he did since he was little would get dramatic results, he did not mind . However, with negligence of the production team, Truman met his "dead" father, and his father was took away by staffs . Many years ago, one young girl named Sylvia who was a loyal audience and figurant of this show showed sympathy to Truman. Truman fell in love with her at first sight.
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