The Truman Show
Kevin James
In this modern society, reality shows on television are the most viewed and rated shows. The Truman Show is a movie produced in 1998 by Peter Weir. It is about an adult named Truman Burbank, the place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world: The Truman Show. Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea about how he is exploited. This makes us question our own society. This movie displays three kinds of points, voyeurism, how the show easily manipulates us and how gender roles have changed.
Voyeurism, this is a point that strongly relates to The Truman Show. The viewers of the Truman show are with media and the life style of others rather than their own and they are very consumed of it.
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