The Truman Show Notes: We always accept the world presented to us.

This is the second time I have seen it. I saw it once many years ago, and I had no other thoughts except to admire Truman's intelligence and courage. Write a note casually after reading this time.

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Truman (gold? Kerry (Jim Carrey) is an ordinary person, except for some strange experiences: his first girlfriend suddenly disappeared and his drowning father suddenly appeared in front of him. He is no different from most American men in their thirties. This made him feel lost. He also tried to leave the place where he had lived for many years, but he couldn't make it for various reasons. Until one day, he suddenly found himself being followed, no matter where he went or what he did. This feeling is getting stronger and stronger. Truman decided to escape from this place where he lived for more than 30 years at all costs to find his first girlfriend. But he found himself unable to escape. The truth is actually cruel.

02. Social fax program

This is the Chinese translation of 1998 movie The Truman Show: The Truman Show. A man's name is Truman = real man = a real person, but can a screen image that has been watched by countless people anytime and anywhere since birth be true?

Truman, like countless ordinary people, had a family and a partner. He also studies, cheats, plays ball, gets married and works. He also has ideals and travels around, but he is always interrupted by this kind of thing and discouraged by his wife.

Truman didn't know he was not ordinary. He is a superstar, and his every move attracts the attention of the whole world. Everyone around him, including Xiao Xia, his wife and mother, is an actor except himself. The whole town where he lives is the largest studio in the world, and all the brands of daily necessities appear on TV in the form of advertisements for the whole world to watch. Everything in Truman was "arranged" and I was kept in the dark.

03. The fulcrum is love

This is not a love movie, but with love as the fulcrum, Truman really touched his earth.

Sylvia fell in love with Truman at first sight. She was the only one who told Truman the truth, but she was taken away by the crew before telling the whole truth. Like everyone else, she watches Truman on TV every day. Others are curious and excited. Her feeling is anger. She called the director/creator many times to scold his control behavior and controlled Truman in a false world. Sylvia is the only one who believes that Truman can finally get out of the illusory world by his own inner strength.

But the creator said to Truman: You are real, so there are so many people watching you. The outside world is as false as the world I gave you, as lies and fraud, but in my world, you have nothing to be afraid of. I know yourself better than you do. "The Creator thinks that man can control everything and that" man is easy to accept reality ". However, people are people, not Pavlov's dogs, because people have their hidden power. As the book "Don't Control Me with Love" says: There are always some things we don't know about other people's situations, because they are hidden in their hearts.

The creator first used various difficulties, including water, fire and storm, to restrain Truman from leaving. And then use feelings to dissuade him, but Truman finally decided to leave the shooting base of Taohuayuan and go to a world he had never been to.

04. The creator is a control freak

About Truman's 30-year life, the creator thinks Truman and Truman's life are real, so he proudly calls this profession: reality show. I even believe that millions of Qian Qian viewers in front of the TV also believe that everything about Truman is real. They are curious, hoping to know Truman's privacy and get the pleasure of peeping without Truman's knowledge. But Truman and Sylvia thought it was all false.

Why is there such a cognitive bias?

Patrice Evans in Don't Control Me With Love: * * It seems easier to write novels together than to write novels alone. The creator of "Truman" set Truman in a specific environment, with a specific crowd and environmental factors, always guarding against big accidents, and even Truman's marriage, children and work were all in the plot he set. He thought it was "for Truman's good". He joined forces with other actors to deal with Truman and establish a reverse connection. The purpose was to support his illusory idea that Truman could live a good life with proper arrangements.

At the same time, once other actors join this group, they are also under the control of illusion. The actual effect is that all actors and creators have formed some kind of illusion. The most obvious example is the growth of Truman. He is undoubtedly a very professional actor, who has been doing his duty in secret, but at the same time reasonably considers himself a good friend of Truman. When talking to Truman, he heard the lines set for him by the director. Although he hesitated for a while, he finally said it according to his lines. At that moment, I really felt that he was under control. He couldn't say what he really wanted to say.

On the contrary, Truman and Sylvia respect their feelings, emotions and ideas very much. This can be seen from Sylvia's first meeting with Truman. Girls look at Truman not because they know what kind of identity he is, but because they regard Truman as an independent individual who transcends stars. Truman loves adventure, often has many ideas, and will chat and share with his wife's hair. Although he has been discouraged, this curiosity and self-esteem have never been erased.

Good cognition should have a "self", which should be built through feeling, perception, intuition and thinking, rather than based on other people's evaluation. (The true self corresponds to the "reverse self")

05. We always accept the world presented to us.

Maybe someone will excuse the creator in the name of fatherly love, but I hate this behavior of the director/controller. As mentioned above, he and many people have established a reverse connection with Truman, resulting in a control relationship, which can never be a healthy love, for whatever reason.

But the creator said a thoughtful warning:

"-Why didn't Truman know what kind of world he lived in?"

"-because we have always been easy to accept the world presented to us."

The time is up to 202 1. In recent years, I have constantly felt the great influence of the Internet and smart phones on our lives. The Internet not only sells material things, but also sells "spirit" and "spiritual life". Neil Pozmann even said: Economics is a performing art, not a technology. We have enjoyed the convenience brought by the economy. Daily necessities, short videos of TV series and various variety shows cover all aspects of life. People can live in a "utopia" without leaving home.

The media that takes up our time presents the world we see, and we wander in this world, accept it, build together and have fun together. Neil Pozmann quoted Ernst Cahill in Entertainment to Death to illustrate the media used by modern people: "With the progress of people's symbolic activities, the material reality seems to be shrinking in proportion. People are not directly facing the things around them, but are constantly talking to themselves. They completely wrap themselves in language forms, artistic images, mythical symbols or religious ceremonies, so that they cannot see or understand anything without the help of artificial media. "

A normal state is that we are lying on the sofa of a well-known brand, watching the life variety show being broadcast on TV, drinking a brand of coffee sponsored by the variety show in front of us, and the poem in our hearts, the life we yearn for and the beautiful prairie are being broadcast on the show-we can enjoy such a beautiful life without leaving home, or it may be the life that most people pursue. This is our world, perhaps because we pursue a "different life" for a few people without resisting.

In The Truman Show, he was imprisoned by taoyuan village. In today's world, if there is anything that can imprison the body and soul of most of us, I think it is Huxley's information ocean about Wang Yang in Brave New World-we become passive and selfish in this information ocean about Wang Yang, and our culture is vulgarized by sensory stimulation, desire and random games, and we will be destroyed by what we love.

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