The star in the cage-The Truman Show

Who is Truman?

The Truman Show is a film produced by Paramount Pictures in 1998. Truman is the hero of this film.

It has been nearly 20 years since the film was released. Truman, who grew up in an artificial studio, in this huge studio, except him, the rest of the staff include his father, mother, lover and best friend, all of whom are actors.

After he was born, he spent 30 years in this studio called "Taoyuan Island". He is the core of this small world, and everyone revolves around him. He doesn't have to worry about not having a job or finding someone. The script will be set and everything will be completed at the right time according to the predetermined track.

Only Truman has no script, because he knows nothing about it. His performance in front of the audience is his natural reaction, which is why he is different.

One day, he found that life was wrong. Meet the same people and repeat the same language every day. No one has ever been out of the island, even if he tries to escape, everyone should stop him.

Buy a plane ticket: sorry, it's the peak season, so you have to wait for a month.

Bus: Sorry, the bus broke down.

When he tried to drive away with his wife in the play, he encountered a sudden blockade of the area or a sudden fire in the middle of the road. The police can actually call out his name.

In fact, many details laid the groundwork for Truman's awakening from the beginning:

When Truman was a little boy, he wanted to be an adventurer and discover unknown new lands, but the teacher said there was no other place on earth for you to discover.

The screenwriter decided that he couldn't leave the island, so he arranged for his father and son to go to sea, but his father was killed in a storm at sea, which made Truman afraid of water and didn't think of leaving the island for many years.

When he was a teenager, a girl moved his heart, but she was taken away by force when she told him the truth.

When he became an adult, his wife deliberately emphasized the brand when introducing household items, and his father who died in his childhood suddenly appeared. .

All this is a real dream created by the screenwriter for Truman.

Truman is real. Everyone else is an actor.

At the end of the movie, the writer asked him, have you really decided to face the outside world? But the outside world is not necessarily more real than Taoyuan Island, which is full of deception and lies. And as long as you stay here, I will arrange everything for you, but you can't resist and you can't leave here again. You are responsible to everyone in this studio and to those who watch your live broadcast. Because you brought them hope.

Live for others or for yourself?

Choose the thorny road you choose, or lie in the artificial garden and touch the soft lawn transplanted from nowhere, and choose the so-called "quiet" life. Life is carefree and happy.

So Truman, he's a star in a cage.

This cage is not Taoyuan Island, nor is it a huge photography base that can even set off tsunamis and tornadoes, but an audience who watches his life 24 hours a day.

Everything in Taoyuan Island looks so beautiful. There is almost no cloudy day in the urban area, and it is sunny every day. Neighborhood harmony, no Xiong Haizi, no parents bear, the sudden appearance of the puppy is also very obedient. Walking in the street, people are very polite and don't even see a fight.

When you go to buy a boat ticket and worry about whether it is late, you will find that everyone on board is waiting for you.

You are the center here. So don't worry.

Speaking of which, do you feel a lot like us?

I listened to my parents' arrangement, chose the right major at the right age and went to college. After graduation, because you have reached the right age, your parents and relatives around you began to worry about getting married and give you advice.

We live in the "Taoyuan Island" built by our family. Thought that was it.

At the end of the film, Truman bowed to everyone in front of the screen and walked out of the set. The movie came to an abrupt end There is no broadcast that Truman ran into a wall everywhere in the real world, nor did he write that Truman found a girl he admired when he was a teenager and lived happily ever after. All this leaves the audience with unlimited imagination.

What would you do if it were you?