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The Truman Show is the story of a man who was never free. A television company legally adopted Truman Burbank and until he was thirty years old, he lived a fake life that everyone knew except himself. Truman is an ideal person who has an ideal marriage like everyone else, works a desk job, lives in a small town in an American state, and has a standard life.
It takes Truman, who lives unaware of everything, a long time to learn the truth. He falls in love with a woman named Lauren. Lauren has always been uncomfortable with Truman's life being turned into a show. Just when she was about to tell Truman the truth, she was detained by the production company and exiled to Fiji because she refused to be a part of the cast. Truman began to sense something because he was receiving reactions and behaviors around him that he could not understand. He has an innocent life. However, when one goes behind the camera, innocence is replaced by a cruel and selfish director and thousands of employees who turn a blind eye to this psychological violence.
From the moment he was born until this age, Truman was trapped in a television show, was born into that world, and became the advertising face of the exploitative and selfish world in which he was designed to live. His wife, his neighbor, his best friend, his boss, his co-workers, and the men wandering the street all consented to this violence in terms of the aesthetics of the game and profited from it by ignoring the privacy of human life. Truman slowly realizes everything by putting the pieces together in his mind. The fact that his life is always the same, the production team appearing in the elevator, and seeing his father, whom he thought was dead, on the road, bring Truman to the truth. The director escapes from the screen by tricking Christof and his team into a trick. Just when he thinks he has achieved his freedom, obstacles appear in his way. By overcoming the obstacles, he escapes the life he is trapped in.
The movie is actually a kind of expression of Plato's allegory of the cave. “We accept the reality of the world as it is presented to us.” For each individual, reality is like a circle formed at a certain radius around him. Anything beyond is incomprehensible. Although personal development has become a very popular topic, expanding that circle is not an easy task at all. It's ironic, yes, but we are all Trumans. Those who think their own perception is reality... That's why, philosophically, concepts such as reality, truth, perception, and perspective should be known very well. Our truths should not be mistaken for our realities. It should not be forgotten that everyone looks at it from a different window and experiences a different show. You should be open to new ideas, and blur the boundaries of your circle of perception so much so that you don't get hit when you bump into other people's circles. On the contrary, let's add colors to yourself.
Another important thing that the movie reminds me of is traveling. Yes, one should travel a lot. Different places, different cultures, and people should be seen so that it is understood that the truth, not the "reality", but the truth can change depending on the circumstances.
Of course, I know that we are in a generation where being different is considered madness. If you ask, we are people who are open to innovations and accept everyone as they are. So are we really like that? Respecting opinions does not mean respecting them only if those opinions are modern enough. If it is stylish enough, intellectual enough, respectful enough, that is if it is sensible enough! Well, this is not freedom of thought. This is freedom for some. If I were to talk a little about my peers. Are you aware that what is inside us is becoming more and more similar to older generations? The more we say we are different, the more we become the same. We become the opposite of what we are. Of course, these will always exist in the world. I just want us not to be a mediocre generation. While I am doing this section, I want anyone who sees my entrepreneurship as a waste of time, laughs at it, or criticizes me, to remain a minority. You know, actually, I just want everyone to escape from the taught world one day, like Truman. For freedom. Freely…
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