As an individual, every person wants, what’s best for themselves. Being indulged with great happiness but how far will people go to achieve happiness? Will they risk their life, or maybe put danger in others lives, the ones they love. Achieving happiness is very important to me as an individual in our society. If I step back and take a minute to watch society, I notice that happiness is achieved in today’s society by being showered with goods. The more goods owned the more superiority they have over others. Meaning that they are better off, happier than the other person. I wouldn’t consider myself completely epicurean but it would be nice to have those day’s. I try to look through the eyes of a stoic on life. With a stoic, they live off of love while a epicurean thrive over goods. In The Truman Show, Andrew Nicco compares family, reality and love to persuade the readers the more goods purchased the happier the individual is.
Growing up and having a normal childhood, then having the experience of my life when getting married, having my first child with my other half is very important to an individual and emotionally supportive. Having that love of my life, my other half and being able to have little ones containing the best of both of our qualities into one perfect individual. Having a family is very important to an individual. It provides comfort and security. Knowing that they will always be there in the time of need. What if I found out that all of that was fake, a lie, every detail and emotion that I have ever felt was all planned? The thoughts and images running through my head. Confused, fear, frustrated. Truman taking him years to figure out that his whole life was nothing but t.v series. Every person that he could trust, his father, Meryl. Every thought and emotion that he felt was real was nothing but a huge lie, fake beyond belief. As a child, I too was fooled into thoughts I thought were real. It was my 10th birthday party and I was still undecided on who I should invite. Over half of the girls in my class planned and convinced each other that they were going to come to my birthday party. Together they made a plan, that if they were nice and friendly to me they would come. During the decision process I thought I had a variety of friends that were true to me. After my birthday party I was devastated to find out that their attitude toward me was all a lie. As I over heard them talking about how it was one of the worst parties that they had been to but it was better than staying home over the weekend. They were greedy epicureans that just wanted to come to my party because it was party with food and prizes. I was so hurt, that I didn’t even want to go to school. They hurt myself esteem greatly that I didn’t even want to see another classmate. For Truman to find out that his WHOLE life was a lie, I couldn’t imagine if that had happened to me, it would be a great depression. I wouldn’t want to imagine what I would do. As an individual Truman handled the truth really mature. It was as if he made it a game to find a way out of the virtual world but Kristoph the director was always one step ahead of him. Enforcing his fears on him. Dogs, water,boats and swinging doors. All of these fears prevent Truman from leaving Seahaven. Fear in my life heights, claustrophobia, scary movies all prevents me from doing the activities that I would like to do with my friends and family. As an individual fear is the one emotion that holds me back to living my life the fullest. As for Truman I was very proud that he was able to over come his fears, it takes a great amount of courage and strength to be able to do what he wanted to do, leave.
Individuals world wide want to the very best for themselves. They want all the goods the world an technology could offer them. They would pay huge amounts of money to get what they want. It may involve a great amount of pain by going under the knife but if it was what they wanted, finding
the strength to overcome the pain like it wasn’t a problem. Second life provides individuals with a virtual life that doesn’t involve pain or the great amounts of money involved in reality. This web site provides individuals to start over. They are able to have the perfect life they have always wanted. The perfect hair, eyes and skin. The good looking husband or wife that was always wanted. The outragesley awesome paying job that invovles little work at all and the house on the hill known as the mansion. Within reach, with just one click away. Truman was like a second life for the directors in that they were able to control every part of his life. The thoughts and memories that run through his head, the wife he marries and even the job he works. It was as if the director was living a second life through Trumans eyes. The director claimed that he knew Truman better than Truman knew himself. The director went through all of the trouble’s to create this society known as a utopia society. Meaning “perfect.” A place in where wrong never happens. Where every rule and regulation is followed. Everyone gets along and is treated like an equal individual. It is a place where individuals would assume it was all planned out. This Utopian society was known as Seahaven. An island in where not even and individual would get in the way or disrupt the plan.By a man made dome. Seahaven was combined with Utopian rules while Second life’s free lifestyle to be who ever you desired to be. A worry free lifestyle. Living in a world or society like Seahaven. I would go insane. Always following the same plan from day to day. No one being themselves. Never any problems or fights. Everyone always in peace with each other. I live a great part of my life by “the harder you worker, the further you will go.” If everyone is equal how will anyone ever get ahead in life, if I were always tied down by others around me. Like Truman I to would want to leave the place that is built upon happiness and find reality.
Love is an absolutely wonderful gift that God gave us as individuals. Love presents us as a whole, when finding our other half, to become complete. Shakespeare is a very romantic author throughout all of his writings, he has displayed great love and romance in his characters that is unbelievably strong. Romeo and Juliet is a love story. As Romeo and Juliet are forbidden to see each other by there parents. It makes Romeo and Juliet even more determined to see and care for each
other. ”lover forbidden grows hotter”. As it did for Truman and Lauren (Sylvia) Garlend but also for Edward and Bella from Twilight. True love at first sight. They fell deeply in love and as Edward to Bella and Truman to Sylvia. That didn’t stop them from meeting with each other. This love affair screwed up the script for the director, in that case removing Sylvia from the show. Truman’s heart was broken, never really understood why she left. He never stop thinking or loving her. How could the director be so cruel by breaking up true love and replacing it with a lie a fake, nothing but a prostitute, being payed to love him. As it was for Edward to Bella. When Edward left, being a vampire scared of hurting her. Bella falling apart. Every part of her dyeing without him. As the same for Romeo and Juliet. Romeo leaving Juliet after being exiled. Juliet doing everything in her power not to move on with life. After Truman finding out that his whole life that he has been living was nothing but a lie. The one strength that kept him living, going strong was love. Love is a powerful gift it can either destroy an individual or keep them fighting. In which it kept Truman fighting for his freedom. His freedom to be with Sylvia. Viktor Taransky from Simone to, fell in love. This love was different this love was his job, director of movie production. He to felt if he lost his job there was no meaning left in life. As he felt his life slipping through his fingers, he to was in the need of something dramatic. With the imagination and technology society has today. Mr. Taransky was able to create a virtual actress, in order to safe his movie production. Like Mr. Taransky, and Truman doing what they believed was right in order to safe their love, I too would of done the same, having no limitations being able to retrieve what I wanted the most, love.
The Truman Show was a movie that touched me deeply, love, sorrow, frightened. It is a movie that I would recommend to any individual. This movie consisted of comedy, romance, and action. Everything I would want a movie to have, to make it great. Andrew Nicco is a very talented writer in that he is able to take technology and science and turn it into what he believes an individual wants. Happiness through items! Other movies that he has written Simone and Gattaca have a great amount of the same characteristics as The Truman Show with using science and technology to promote happiness. Im eager and looking forward to watching more of his work that he has done in the movie business.