There is something disarming and even upsetting about The Truman Show, the wonderful, media-savvy science-fiction film from director Peter Weir. The Truman Show is set in a present that parallels ours, or a slightly distant future. Like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (a film it resembles), the story occurs in a modern world with a few important alterations. Take, for example, the wild popularity of The Truman Show, a television program that's part soap-opera, part "real life" TV. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) was an unwanted baby adopted by a television corporation that shapes and broadcasts every moment of his life. Truman lives in a carefully bounded environment, on an idyllic little island called Seahaven, where happy people ride their bikes along manicured streets. All of the people in Truman's life--his wife, his mother, the newspaper vendor--are actors. The only "real" person in the whole town is Truman. Truman doesn't know this, at least not at first.
Truman is a character of a soap-opera show.
The television corporation controls his life. Controls the lighting of the world, controls what other people around him will say (actors).
Why is it so unique for the viewers of the soap-opera? (within the film)
because it is real? or because he does not know the truth?
because people like the idea of control?
The film is linked to the idea of The Sims game, in which a life is controlled.
Game control the life of a person with diabetes?
control the sugar levels in the blood?
control the amount of food (with sugars) that a person eats
control the amount of Insulin that the pancreas creates in order to put the Glucose (sugar) in the cells.
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