Exegesis 'The Truman Show'
Dylan Provost
Dr. Peter Neumann
GE4300
Dec 8th 2014
Take Home Exam
Section 1: Philosophical Movie Exegesis
The Truman Show: The Truman Show is a movie based out of California featuring actor Jim Carey based on a real life television show about Truman Burbank’s life. The place that Truman lives is in fact a studio with over five thousand cameras capturing every minute of Truman’s life. Truman believes he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea how he is exploited, but one day he realizes that a man named Christof (the creator) has been controlling his reality and life. The questions that came up while watching these movies were are we truly free? Do we as humans have free choice in choosing how we live our everyday life? …show more content…
The enlightenment attempted to value logic and reason over all else and put many doubts to ideas that relied on metaphysics such as God, existence, and the meaning of life. Postmodernism is frequently used to explain a contemporary culture and began from the death of Christ. Sire says, that postmodernism is not post anything; it is the last move of the modern, the result of the modern taking its own commitments seriously and seeing that they fail to stand the test. Postmodernism no story can have more credibility than any other even though all stories are equal by the communities that they live by. When we learn language we learn by the context, historically speaking. Postmodernity rejects the idea that either religion or reason is decided what is meaningful and wrong. The postmodern worldview is difficult to define, because to define it would violate the postmodernist’s premise that no definite terms, boundaries, or absolute truth exists. The concern with Christianity in a postmodern worldview is that it centers around the reliance on ancient and traditional religious morals, nationalism, and capitalism. To the postmodernist, the Western world today is an outdated lifestyle disguised under impersonal and faceless bureaucracies. The postmodernist endlessly debates the modernist about the Western society today and may need to move beyond the primitiveness of traditional …show more content…
When dealing with truth in ministry or the reality of God, postmodernism’s viewpoint is exemplified saying it may be true for you, but not for me. This would be appropriate for a discussion regarding a favorite band, but makes things a little more difficult regarding matters or truth or the existence of God. Postmodernism is a reaction to modernism’s failed promise of using human reason alone to better mankind and make this world a better place to live because postmodernism seeks to correct things by eliminating the absolute truth and making everything relative to an individual’s beliefs and desires. The problem with this view starts with the rejection of absolute truth, which then leads to a loss of faith in a ministry point of view. Pluralism says no faith or religion can be objectively true and therefore no one can claim religion is true and another can be
Dr. Peter Neumann
GE4300
Dec 8th 2014
Take Home Exam
Section 1: Philosophical Movie Exegesis
The Truman Show: The Truman Show is a movie based out of California featuring actor Jim Carey based on a real life television show about Truman Burbank’s life. The place that Truman lives is in fact a studio with over five thousand cameras capturing every minute of Truman’s life. Truman believes he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea how he is exploited, but one day he realizes that a man named Christof (the creator) has been controlling his reality and life. The questions that came up while watching these movies were are we truly free? Do we as humans have free choice in choosing how we live our everyday life? …show more content…
The enlightenment attempted to value logic and reason over all else and put many doubts to ideas that relied on metaphysics such as God, existence, and the meaning of life. Postmodernism is frequently used to explain a contemporary culture and began from the death of Christ. Sire says, that postmodernism is not post anything; it is the last move of the modern, the result of the modern taking its own commitments seriously and seeing that they fail to stand the test. Postmodernism no story can have more credibility than any other even though all stories are equal by the communities that they live by. When we learn language we learn by the context, historically speaking. Postmodernity rejects the idea that either religion or reason is decided what is meaningful and wrong. The postmodern worldview is difficult to define, because to define it would violate the postmodernist’s premise that no definite terms, boundaries, or absolute truth exists. The concern with Christianity in a postmodern worldview is that it centers around the reliance on ancient and traditional religious morals, nationalism, and capitalism. To the postmodernist, the Western world today is an outdated lifestyle disguised under impersonal and faceless bureaucracies. The postmodernist endlessly debates the modernist about the Western society today and may need to move beyond the primitiveness of traditional …show more content…
When dealing with truth in ministry or the reality of God, postmodernism’s viewpoint is exemplified saying it may be true for you, but not for me. This would be appropriate for a discussion regarding a favorite band, but makes things a little more difficult regarding matters or truth or the existence of God. Postmodernism is a reaction to modernism’s failed promise of using human reason alone to better mankind and make this world a better place to live because postmodernism seeks to correct things by eliminating the absolute truth and making everything relative to an individual’s beliefs and desires. The problem with this view starts with the rejection of absolute truth, which then leads to a loss of faith in a ministry point of view. Pluralism says no faith or religion can be objectively true and therefore no one can claim religion is true and another can be