1) The Truman Show makes it known that it is metafiction, showing the fabrication of the world that
Truman resides, He is living in a mammoth dome that is controlled and manipulated with his every move filmed for the outside world to view. Cameras show his every move as he lives inside a tv show with the world literally revolving around him. As the film progress the shackles of the world begin to rear its manipulating head as a studio light fixture falls from the dome and fraudulent rain begins to fall only on Truman.
2) Truman is living inside a simulation with every resident apart from him having roles to play and scripts to follow, he is living not in life but the creators vision of a hyperrealism manufacture which is a blend of the real which is Truman and the fiction which is everyone else. Truman starts to question everything, he cannot tell what is real anymore as the constraints of the dome start to become apparent, he notices patterns about the residents and strange occurrences that hinder him trying to leave which start to make him paranoid that he is a in a simulacrum where his meaning is becoming destabilised.
3) The Truman Show is a pastiche and parody of the American Dream where every house looks the same and every resident resides in this idyllic picturesque bubble. Celebration town in Florida, California comes to mind as this town is seen as the perfect place to live when in reality the town like The Truman show has strict rules that the residents must abide by which include embargoes stating why they left. Truman's wife is parodied with a satirical view on America as she constantly talks about consumerism, showing the viewer many different types of product placement to seemingly enrich their lives.
4) The Truman Show is a representation of the media in American, where Truman is completely controlled and manipulated by the media as the viewers completely devour everything that is shown to them as they are stuck to their television sets like glue. Fake news can be instilled into the whole plot of the truman show as he is controlled by the creators and the actors that revolve around putting on a show for the audience are fed through an ear piece all the scripted lines to say around Truman to fill the watching sheeple with their predetermined expectations.
5) The ending is up to the viewers own interpretation as Truman leaves the controlling but safe Dome to be thrust into real life, we don't know how he actually gets on. Does he have a serious case of culture shock? Is his better off living in the confines of the Dome, Does he ever make it to Fiji to make be with the one he loves, The viewer can only imagine.
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