The Truman Show A Satire

It is believed that Weir is criticizing the immense role media and reality TV plays on our society. This is demonstrated all over the film from when Cristof says that 7billion watched his birth to when the audience is shown with Truman pillows and bars watching the Truman show instead of the news. Weir is criticizing that people need someone to admire, to give them a false sense of reality and this is the case as the show tries to present itself as a complete spontaneous unscripted documentary when it is actually a manipulation of a human life. I believe that the makers of Reality TV are being ridiculed. This is assumed as the show tries to present itself as ‘unscripted’ and completely ‘natural’ but is actually just a billion-dollar prank where Truman and the audience are the only ones who aren’t in on it.