The Truman Show

-What do you think of Christof's speech?

When I heard Christof's speech, it seemed very intelligent and very ingenious that he would think of using a person and shaping his life to show how easily people can be fooled. Christof shows that people can be easily deceived by the everyday things that surround them. He has a point when he says this, and he proves it by using a person who lives a life that is nothing like reality.

-What is the "real world"?

I believe that the real world is something that people should rethink. I hope I am living in the real world, because honestly the Truman Story scared me, and it made me rethink who to trust and what to trust. I think the real world still exists, but we will never know if we are living in one or not, because just like Truman, we might be believing that whatever world we are living is real. To Truman, his world was real. To me, this world, and this reality that I am living in is real, because this is what I get to experience and such. To me this place is my reality, and it is a reality for many people.

-Does Truman have it better than other human beings?

Truman does not have it better than other human beings in a sense that he does not get to do what he wants to do the most. He wants to be able to travel, but he is being kept away from doing so. I believe that everything else about Truman is not better or worse than other human beings. I merely think it is the same. People, just like Truman, are controlled by others, no matter what. They will always be influence and shaped by their surrounding as well as the people around them. Also, just like Truman, people go through life not knowing much, and just accepting everything as they are given to us.

-Do we accept the world given to us-- like Christof says?

We do accept the world given to us, and we do not question it. Until now, I had never questioned reality seriously until I saw this movie. I always accepted this as the reality, and accepted whatever was thrown at me because others have told me that I must just accept everything as it is. I stopped questioning like I once did. I stopped asking 'why' to everything like I used to. As I aged, I lost the art of questioning everything. Until now, I have accepted the world just as it is given to us. However, I know that in the future, I still will absent-mindedly because it is so well programmed into my mind to do so.

-What do you think has kept Truman in the show for so long?

I think the thing that kept Truman in the show for that long is because he grew up with everyone telling then that whatever is given to him was the reality, and that he had to embrace it and accept it. Every time there was a strange incident that might have led him to the truth, everyone else guided him into thinking that it was just him, and no one else. However, when he sees his dad that he loved so much again, he starts to realize that something in his world is not right, and that he is being kept out from a big secret.