Blog 6

Truman and Me

Cristoff is an interpretation of our reality life. At the end of the movie Cristoff persuade Truman that real world has not more truth than the world was created by him. In both sides also have lie and hypocrisy. Consequently, the reality that displayed in the movie is reflection our or my real life. Difference between Truman’s and my lives is size. Truman’s life is show that observed people from over the world; my life also like show, and I can call it the Life, and I think unlike Truman my Life is observed just some people. Truman and I have many common things; we both have followed rules that were created by Cristoff for Truman and by Life for me, and we both have inflicted fair and it affected on our lives.

The Truman’s world is artificial world where everything under control. However, I am not completely sure that my life real or not because I can see cameras everywhere. Every time when I used to walking through the city I notice the cameras on the streets, on the wall of the houses, in the offices, in the stores and so on. Of course, I know that these cameras for our safety and commonweal. But sometimes I seem that it’s just for explanation for us. Nobody knows how the special department uses the space satellites, maybe they see after some people. Now I am working in the store. The whole store fills with cameras. I understand that cameras in the store need for security and to avoid shoplifting. But I am under control, too, and I stay half of my day under cameras. It’s so tediously. I am cashier, if no costumers in the store I cannot even sit because I have to stand. I am not able to break the rules because I know the owner of the store can see on the screen from everywhere even from his home. Thus, I am also like Truman; almost always stay under control, but unlike me Truman didn’t know about cameras.

Likewise Truman I have “a screenplay” with rules which was created by the Life, and I have to follow them. In the whole, our screenplays are not differing. At the beginning of my life I went to kinder garden then schools, college. Afterward, I found good job and got married. Next, follow “the screenplay” is the nurture the next generation. I think, if “the Truman show” have been continued he became a parent, too. The place Seahaven also like my place where I live only the name different is New York. There like Truman I have home where I live with my husband and daughter. Every day at morning when I left home I usually see my neighbors who also to hurry to work and with whom we always great each other. After work I come back home and do some routine house work. Weekend and free time I spend with my family and friends. The friends also as well in Truman’s show not all the real friends. Some of them so well pretended good friends that frequently occur. So, Truman and I have many common in our lives.

In the movie we can clearly see the fear which was imposed by Cristoff with manipulation and how it affected on the Truman. When Truman was child he always said that he wanted go away from Seahaven. However Cristoff wanted to hold Truman in the show, so he invented a trick, where Truman’s father sank in the sea that Truman saw it. Since at that moment, Truman became to fear the sea. Same thing happened with me. I remember, when I was child I lived close to lake. All children liked to run at the lake, and they swum in there. But our parents didn’t allow us to go there without adults. However, sometimes we disobeyed and run there. When our parents learned about it, they told us a story that in that lake was living a crocodile. One day, my brother and I saw it in the lake, and I stopped to run there forever. Passed years, we moved from that place; I learn wherefrom appears that crocodile, but I long time scare to sink into water everywhere. This example tells us that the fear influences in my life.

I was born and had lived in ex-Soviet Union. In there we had some media such as television, radio, and newspapers. However, all of them were under control, like Truman. We saw, heart or read just only that news that wanted someone of the government. In all of these fields had been a censor who permit or not allow printing out some books or articles on the newspapers. We didn’t know a definite truth that had been occurring in the outside of the country. That country remembered me the cave with prisoners because there was everything under control. I can say that we live like in Truman’s place.


Even throw, Truman and I have been living almost in same world, but I would not like to live in Cristoff ‘s world because I don’t like to being controlled by anyone, and in my life more than often can see and meet reality friends unlike Truman.