Truman, Truman, Zhenren, the name is very profound. It clearly states that in Truman's world, only he is a "real person", and everyone else is just an "actor".
Truman was placed under the camera as soon as he was born, and the "Truman Show" was broadcast live for 24 hours. Truman's world is a huge studio. His parents, wife, friends, co-workers, street vendors, passers-by, passengers, etc. are all actors. Even the sunrise and the wind and waves are man-made.
Everything is trying to create a so-called "real" world for Truman, so that TV viewers can see Truman's real life.
This "real" world is not without flaws: a rain that chases Truman like a chasing light, a deliberate product promotion by his wife, a pedestrian in a circle...
Such a flaw must have appeared many times in Truman's thirty years of life. But before Truman did not have doubts.
Because it's too hard. Who would suspect that the mother who raised herself was just an actress? Who would suspect that the brothers they knew at the age of seven were just performing "brotherhood"? Who would believe that the purpose of his father's death was to make him "afraid of water"? Who would believe that the various people who come and go on the island are just his supporting characters?
Forget it, I must have thought too much about it. Life is good now, why do you want to do so much? That's it!
Like the vast majority of us.
However, Truman's heart always surged with the idea of going out. On the walls of his room hung huge maps of the world, and in his notebook was a patchwork of dream lovers. The rush of thoughts converged on one point: he was going to Fiji.
Of course, the program team will not let Truman leave, he is the star of "Truman Show". Driving, encountering a nuclear leak; airplanes, tickets sold out; buses, failures can't move.
Truman was already well aware of what force he was holding back, though he didn't know exactly what was going on.
Truman began to fight back. This short passage is as wonderful as "The Shawshank Redemption".
On the surface, Truman returned to normalcy, going to work, buying magazines, and selling insurance. But in fact, he carefully designed the escape route, and it was not easy to avoid more than 5,000 cameras.
When the huge world map was opened and the passage behind it appeared impressively, my heart was really indescribably happy!
Truman fled in a sailboat because there was no other way. The desire for freedom overcame the fear of water, the desperate courage overcame the monstrous waves, and he finally touched the edge of that false world.
When the accumulated doubts are confirmed at this moment, when he discovers that his life is nothing more than someone else's show, when the so-called "creator" persuades him to return to that "false but beautiful" world, how does Truman's heart vibrate, collapse and rebuild?
We don't know, but we only saw him laugh and say the words: "If I never see you again, I wish you a good morning, noon, and good night", and then made a graceful closing gesture and disappeared at the exit.
Who can guarantee that we are not living in Truman's world?
The best way to live is perhaps to live authentically, like Truman, even if everything around you is false.
Because of external falsehood, there is nothing we can do. Only the truth of the heart is the only thing we can rely on.