TOK Assignment- The Truman Show                                          Hilary Lee 12E

  1. Give examples from the film where Truman understanding of reality is deliberately manipulated using language.

In the film, when Truman was young, he wanted to travel to Fiji but the teacher told him that he would not ever make it. Moreover, when he grew up, he wanted to buy an air ticket in the travel agency. Yet, the travel agent said all flights to Fiji were fully booked or unavailable.

  1. Give examples from the film where Truman’s perception of reality is deliberately manipulated.

The town is formed in a giant dome decked out with advance technology simulations. Truman himself has no idea he is actually living in a giant TV studio. And the rest of the audience from the actual reality is watching him go from one staged of his “artificial” life to another.

  1. “We accept the truth of the reality with which we are presented” (Christof). Bearing in mind this quote from the film, what does this film teach us about perception?

Formation of perception is actually affected by our environment, culture and experience since we absorb knowledge starting from our first day of life. We accept the current existed reality is because it occupies our view and actually the existence reality helps us to form our own identity by understanding the information that we acquire from the world and analyze with our own perception.

Change in attitude as a transformation in the way Truman sees his surroundings. First of all, Truman is raised by his stage-set world. He is convinced it is real that set up his view. But the flaws occur in the studio lead him questioning his existence and the world he lives is actually an illusion. Especially when he makes his escape, the producer of the show blocks him at every turn, which reveals the producer wants to keep his own perception intentionally.

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The movie also depicts the critics who invite us to see through media illusions in the form of characters who try to warn Truman he is on television. Most notably, there is the woman who reveals to him that he is on TV, before she is removed from the set. His dream of finding her is also the dream that, at first, he does not know he has, of finding the truth of the outside world, where there is genuine relationship in place of the saccharin marriage he believes is authentic. These ideas remind us in dramatic form that we ...

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