Ep. 39: Analyzing ‘The Truman Show’
Who is shaping your sense of reality? Derrick and Joseph team up to do our first in-depth film analysis of the 1998 masterpiece The Truman Show. We break down everything from the filmmaking, to the symbolism, to character motivations, and even biblical allusions, all in an attempt to see how this film speaks to us today as an eerie prophecy that's come to fruition.
The Context (0:00)
The Analysis (8:56)
The Takeaways (1:22:21)
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
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