Truman in the cave ^ ^,

Still remember my previous “Behind the right, lies another truth”, which is about allegory or parable? Well, this is my part 2 version of allegory. This time, I’ll compare it with the movie of The Truman Show.

    The Truman Show is a movie about the life of Truman Burbank that lives his life in a television studio since his birth. His life was unusual in the sense that he was the star of a reality television show. He didn’t know about it and it causes him to believe that the lifestyle he has been living was normal. Everyone that he knew in his life was an actor or actress pretending to be his mother, wife, friend, coworker, or neighbour. 

     The movie was broken up into three different "worlds". There was Truman's world, which consisted of everything he knew to be reality; the director's world, where the show and Truman's life were controlled; and the viewers' world, where the people, viewers, watched the life of this man religiously. The movie introduces Truman at a time where he is being to realise that there is something wrong with his life and by the end of the film shows his escape and realisation of the real world. 

     Truman Burbank life was unusual in the sense that he was the star of a reality television show. He was unaware of this fact causing him to believe that the lifestyle he was living was normal. In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" the people in the cave, watching the puppets, were unaware of any other lifestyle or world other than the one in which they were presented. Truman was told by some people throughout his life that the life he was living was just a television show but he was unable to understand and ignored them. When the person in the cave was first told that there was more to life than the cave, he did not believe it. It was not until he witnessed the true world, life outside of the cave, that he knew and believed anything else. Although Truman was told about the other life, it was not until he saw and witnessed things for himself that he began to believe any of it. 

In both, Truman and the prisoners eventually escape. They get to see what the world is actually like.