The Truman Show

Throughout 'The Truman Show' Peter Weir has used images and themes to show how the media blur the line between reality and unreality, not only in Truman's world but also in our own. Weir has used this scene to show an underlying message that 'The Truman Show' is a metaphor for our own situation we either get sucked in by the media's control or escape from the entrapment. This scene is where Truman's attempt at …

…of media control and entrapment when a faked disaster at the nuclear power plant stops Truman at a roadblock. Truman's suspicions are confirmed when a trooper that had never met him says " You're welcome Truman". Through themes such as entrapment we are forced to think of how we ourselves are absorbed into what the media presents us, just like Truman, when we realise do we try and escape or are we continually being sucked in.