Truman

How are images used to shape your response to the worlds presented in your prescribed text? (What it is about and how it is conveyed) As the language and logic of media imperialism have increasingly been subjected to critical investigation, Weir’s film, the Truman Show has come to mark an important moment in an imagery tradition defined by both its visual communication and adherence to current world issues. In decoding his film, visual techniques …

…is free, authentic, and progressive. The Truman Show is ultimately displaying the way the media manipulates mass opinions, and routinely creates fiction that masquerades as facts. Ironically one of the voices raised against it is the ultimate media machine Hollywood undercover in the Truman Show. By depicting a series of fateful events in the life of Truman Burbank, Weir has made the media more transparent to the responders, allowing absurdity and profound criticism to prevail.