The Truman Show

Individuals today tend to accept the reality that is given to them. We fall into a nonchalant style of giving into what is given to use instead of going after what everyone considers norms in the world. However the Truman shows demonstrates an individual played by Jim Carey who is entirely fed up with what seems to be real and begins to question everything that he see's hear's and ultimately at one time believed was his life. It shows the media's control over an individual but shows how its up to the individual to either allow the control to happen or take a stand and fight back. I believe the film is advocating for the fact that we control our lives no matter how much media and out side sources try and persuade us or even tilt us to thinking what they want us to.

I agree with what the film is saying. At first I was somewhat confused with the events happening until I began to zone in. The movie gives to the idea that it is okay to question what we think is our reality and it makes us a better person by it. I enjoyed the movie. the fact someone just as in plato's cave can believe something for so long and have just a slip of there reality altered and then decide to switch to the red pill and fight against everything and everyone in his/her way.

The Truman Show gave its audience just what it needed. It in a twisted way. Showed us a reality within the story that while happening was not at all happening. We choose how we live, although at times we might cede to the media or the outside worlds mind we always have the power to change.

At the end of the movie when Truman is sailing into the water to what he believes he can escape, he fights back. He knowing someone was controlling his life sought to not give up on escaping. when e finally realized he was not in a real world he gives his famous quote line back to the world that controlled him basically giving them a big middle finger. This gives to the argument saying we the individual has power, and no one can take that right from us. 

We all in a way are controlled by media it gives us the sense that what we are doing in right. However if we don't question that media we are ceding our power as human beings to be different which in the case of all this the media wants from us. For us to go outside the norms so they can sell it right back to us in consumption. The film is making an outstanding argument that we can do whatever we like in life with just a little pinch to wake our minds back up.