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The Truman show: Is life a Truman show? By saying that life is a Truman show,
I’m saying that life is perfectly planned, with a structure and a fixed
destiny…it may even be a lie. The Truman show is a movie in which the main
character is the protagonist of a show without knowing anything. Truman is being
filmed twenty four hours a day, but he doesn’t know it. Everyone he knows, are
actors and are with him only because they are paid for doing so.
This surely seems very different to our lives; it’s just fiction. But it may
be very similar in several aspects if we analyze it little bit. We may seem free
to decide, to choose who do we meet, and to do several things, but there is
always someone that can prevent us from achieving something that is not
convenient for him. Although this may seem to be a truly paranoid ideal, there
are several “important” people which have a lot of power and can control our
lives as they want to.
By this I am not saying that they are planning every ones life, but they can
surely manage to take a population to where ever they want, and they do not care
if people suffer, or if people die, as long as they can earn money it is all
right. What the producer of the show did to Truman, is in a way the same that
the governments and the world’s Oligarchy does to us at every moment, through
out our whole lifes. The Studio didn’t care of how much could Truman suffer, or
how morally bad was what they were broadcasting, as long as people pay, it was
all right.
In our life the same tings happen, over and over again. No one on a
government cared if people died in a war, they may have been their people, but
they wouldn’t care. They fought a war for a matter of power, but I have never
seen any president fighting in a world war. Another way in which life can be
compared to the Truman show is that when Truman tried to escape from his “life”,
he was set up with several traps, which made it very hard for him to live, and
they even tried to kill him. In Argentina, while the military government was in
power, several people tried to change the things, but not one could achieve
their goal, and almost all of them disappear. To round up, our life IS in
several ways a Truman show, but it only give amusement to a few, and brings pain
to several who does not disserve it.
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