{"id":4483,"date":"2009-09-01T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/the-truman-show\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:22:00","slug":"the-truman-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/the-truman-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truman Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/Sp1U6Ts0-_I\/AAAAAAAAARw\/A0BZBCftp9s\/s1600-h\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376546890847681522\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/Sp1U6Ts0-_I\/AAAAAAAAARw\/A0BZBCftp9s\/s400\/images.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><em>The Truman Show<\/em>, by director Peter Weir, is a film about Truman Burbank, who is adopted at birth by a television network to be the star of a reality television show. Truman grows up unaware that his whole life is a staged television show, available 24 hours a day to viewers, and that everyone in his life is an actor, including his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The film raises many philosophical questions, including questions about ethics, free will and determinism, the nature of truth, and the relationship between appearance and reality. It\u2019s a provocative film for discussing these issues with middle and high school students. Some questions it raises are:<\/p>\n<p>Is Truman\u2019s life real?<br \/>Is \u201cThe Truman Show\u201d morally acceptable?<br \/>Do we \u201caccept the reality of the world with which we\u2019ve been presented,\u201d as the creator of \u201cThe Truman Show\u201d asserts?<br \/>Does anyone know Truman?<br \/>Is creating a \u201cperfect world\u201d and imposing it on someone morally permissible? What would be the benefits of living in the safe, constructed world of \u201cThe Truman Show?\u201d<br \/>Is there more truth in the world than in \u201cThe Truman Show?\u201d <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truman Show, by director Peter Weir, is a film about Truman Burbank, who is adopted at birth by a television network to be the star of a reality television show. 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