The Truman Show
In the movie The Truman Show, actor Jim Carrey plays a man whose entire life is a television show, broadcast to millions, unknown to Truman himself. From his point of view, he is just living his life. In the middle of the movie, a group of reporters interview the director, the Godlike figure played by Ed Harris who literally determines Truman’s life, whether it is going to rain or be sunny, the plot for the next week’s story, whether or not things will turn out OK for Truman.
One interviewer asks the director, “How do you explain that Truman has never figured out that his whole life is just a television show?” The director responds, “We all accept reality as it is presented to us.”
Like Truman our awareness presents itself to us as immediate and unmistakable. Yet there is always much more than meets the eye…