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Truman Show
Fears and External Obstacles versus Freedom to Leave
(The Truman Show 1998)

Lauren: Yeah. I know. Look, Truman, I'm not allowed to talk to you. You know.
Truman Burbank: Yeah, well, I can understand, I'm a pretty dangerous character.
- When Truman met Sylvia first time

Everyone in the world has different characteristics and personalities. When many different characters make harmony together, it leads to great wealth in our lives. Not necessarily money, but the quality of life. However, every character around us cannot be wonderful and great to our lives. In many different cases, some people are opposite to us, and that can bring us difficulties and pain. That is how our life goes, and that is how we try to overcome it. There are reasons why movies entertain us and excite us in fascinating ways; movies represent our lives. Many movies illustrate a world that we cannot reach but beside its circumstances, and the conflicts are similar. Therefore, the different characters that exist with possible circumstances in the movies tend to represent our lives. In the film “The Truman Show” directed by Peter Weir (and written by Andrew Niccol, 1998) there are many different characteristic and circumstance examples of the Hero (Truman Burbank – Jim Carry), the Mentor (Lauren/Sylvia – Natascha Mcelhone), the Shadow (Truman’s fear and Cristof’s world – Ed Harris), and the Trickster (Meryl Burbank, Marlon, and all other civilian in Truman’s world – Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich and extras); thus, Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey theory is absolutely expressed within the Myth.
“The Truman Show” is a 1998 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. Casts include, Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone. The film chronicles the life of a man who does not know that he is living in a constructed reality soap opera, televised 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to billions across the

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