¶ … Truman Show: The failure of the American Dream
In the 1998 film The Truman Show, the protagonist Truman Burbank leads an ideal American life. He has a loving family, a perfect job, good friends and wholesome neighbors. There is only one problem with this sunny state of affairs: it is all a lie. Truman is really the star of an ongoing reality TV program known as The Truman Show. Truman has been deluded into thinking that his perfect life is reality. However, eventually he begins to tire of this image of perfection. Truman begins to resist the constraints that have been imposed upon him. The film supports the notion that truth is preferable to a happy lie, and is a call to all viewers to question the injustices that exist within their own societies. [THESIS].
Although the film may seem fantastic, advocates of social justice like Martin Luther King Jr. would argue that there is much in American history that resonates with The Truman Show. White Americans have come to believe that their society is perfectly just, and this image is perpetuated by the media, just like The Truman Show depicts a perfect reality. But for black Americans, the reality of America is very different. King stated in his speech called "The American Dream:"America has been something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against herself. On the one hand we have proudly professed the great principles of democracy, but on the other hand we have sadly practiced the very opposite of those principles" (King 1964).
Outside of the set of The Truman Show, there are widespread demonstrations demanding that Truman be freed of his illusion. A 'Free Truman' campaign...
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