In class yesterday we watched the
Truman Show. While watching this show, I realized that the media in our society
are trying to run our lives. We don’t see it yet because we’re blind to the
fact of entertainment not knowing that the media is pretty much controlling our
lives. In the movie, the commentary made a role of media in our lives, it had
utopian and dystopian views of media, the line between public and private, the
difference between real life and performance, and the ethics of reality TV. I
will elaborate.
If you think of it, what do we do
on a daily basis? Watch TV, use our phones, and check our social networking
sites, etc. When you look at it, technology controls us; we can’t live without
it. The social commentary in this movie was good, and probably that’s what
caught the attention of the viewers. We can function as humans every single day
but if u compare it to the movie, it’s similar. We wake up, meet new people,
make friends, and get a job. Just the average stuff and this movie showed it. It
was so real; that you wouldn’t even know it was staged. Even though there were
a couple of get ups in the movie.
Life proceeds and society changes
especially in the media. There are times in which you might feel as if
everything goes complete perfect, but then again knowing that it’s life. Things
don’t always go perfect. The media has a way of portraying utopia on national
television. Especially on reality shows, everything seems perfect in that
person’s life when actually dystopia plays it’s part. Everything is staged. The
media lies to us on a daily basis and we follow? “We accept the reality
of the world with which we are presented. It’s as simple as that.” -Christof
Truman was absolutely stuck in a world of his own, he was trapped not
knowing that every person he encounters and the city he lives in. Is just
fiction. The real world was outside of the dome constructed in Hollywood.
Everyone wants privacy, space, and
time for themselves. Nobody wants to be watched or not have space. Some people
love other people in there business or they love being watched. In the Truman
Show, Truman experienced both. They had cameras everywhere in the city
especially in his house, his car, and his job. He had no space. But one day he
devised a plan and then he left. So the cameras couldn’t follow him. So you can
say there is a line between privacy and public.
In life, there are borders between
real life and performance. One is reality, and the other one is staged, meaning
that it’s written. In the beginning of the movie he was absolutely clueless. He
thought the life that he was living was real until he started seeing clues that
made him realize that something’s fishy. Therefore he left and the producers
couldn’t find him until he reached the end of the dome. He realized that his
life was fake and staged. That was the border between life and performance. The
ethics of reality TV I’m not really sure they even have one. What people really
look for in a reality TV show is for it being real. Everyone looks for the real
in a person’s life. Truman on the other hand swore his life was real but it was
all staged. The Truman Show on a whole was an amazing movie.
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