Truman Burbank, (played by Jim Carry) has lived a fake life. Since his birth he has been watched with hidden cameras in a big studio. His neighbors and friends around him are actors who play their role in the most popular TV series in the world.
Christoff is the director who controls every aspect of Truman's life, even the weather. He dissuaded Truman's needs for exploration by killing his father in a storm while fishing to instill in him a fear of the water, keeping him from knowing any other place.
Truman Burbank works for an insurance company, lives with his wife and has a friend who always pops in front of him with a six pack. He has no idea how he has been exploited. Suddenly he found his life very repetitive and decided to follow his instincts no matter how hard and how painful the result would be.
Truman, himself, was not an actor. He was the only one playing honestly in the reality show. He reflects how humans are being controlled by the environment and has the need of exploring and stops living in a restricted world lead by someone playing God.
At the end he was given two choices: keep living in a comfortable world knowing is a fake life or face up the truth regardless being hurt and destroyed .Finally, he chooses the exit door leading to the outer darkness over the false sunlight in the dream that he leaves behind.
Eventually, if I would be given the same choices I would do the same. Even though I would be getting into a world which I know nothing, being a scary situation, I’d want to prove myself that nothing in my live can be predicted or managed by someone else.
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