Wednesday, March 5, 2014

The Truman Show Essay


          "The Truman Show" was created to entertain millions of children, adults, and older people in the real world as well as in the movie itself but it is a cruel thing to do to a person and nobody deserves to ever be put through that. "The Truman Show" depicts several interesting areas of video production including the use of video cameras and angling, the ability to distinguish the difference between the real and controlled world that Truman lives in, and the flaws that happen to be in the movie.
         
           Through out the movie there are many shots including the pencil sharpener, the button cam, the mirror camera, and the dashboard camera in Truman's car. All these camera shots helped to show the audience that no matter where Truman was he was always on camera, being recorded and showed to millions of people for entertainment. However in real life and in the fake world that Truman lives in there are accidents where people mess up. When these people start messing up Truman starts to realize that he is being recorded and or put on camera. A particular scene that stood out and impacted me as a watcher is the scene when Truman decides to leave Seahaven and go on a trip that is not expected. They run into a incident where "There is a radioactive leak from the power plant up the road" and when the worker calls Truman by his name something clicks and Truman realizes something is wrong and he must do something about it. So Truman runs and the camera that was recording him was in a gauge reader in on of that workers suits. The cameras shot helps make the mood feel sneaky. In conclusion there are many shots through out the movie that has an important role in the helping with the mood.

        The Truman show was created to be a source of entertainment not to be realistic. Though the movie and show itself were sometimes funny and entertaining as well as hit an emotional spot inside of me, I do believe that there are many flaws in this productions. The intentions of the creator were not true he only was thinking about money, reviews, and the entertainment of other people never about Truman him self. "The Truman Show" could never really happen in real life because there are laws and amendments that protect people from that. Having someone on camera  without them having any knowledge if that is most definitely cruel and no human should ever have that happen to them. In conclusion the movie is not realistic at all.

         "The Truman Show" in my opinion is not a good movie at all. It should have never been made. After the creation of this movie people may fear that this might happen to them in the future. The movie does have some good parts to it though. In my opinion the movie was not thoroughly thought out and the ending sucked. The ending of the movie was by far the worst part of the movie. I hate how it does not show what happened with Sylvia and if they ever  met up or did not meet up. In conclusion the movie is horrible and not well planned or executed.
       
          "The Truman Show" depicts several interesting areas of video production including the use of video cameras and angling, the ability to distinguish the difference between the real and controlled world that Truman lives in, and the flaws that happen to be in the movie. Over all I disapprove of this movie because it not only invades peoples personal space and privacy but it also hides the truth from the main character as well. The movie is not fair or right to ever put any single person through.
   



          

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