Truman Mind-Map

Perspective^

Truman

World

Culture

Entire world knows and watches truman

Identity

Truman's identity is sculpted from his surroundings, but his personal goal of travelling and his personal curiosity brings him to the truth

Creativity

Created World and whole storyline for a real life human

Creator made truman who he is today through the obstacles and struggles he added to his life

Communication

Through the lines of the actors they were able to fool a grown man into believing all the lies

In many different ways people tried to communicate the truth to truman but were quieted

Transformation

Truman starts his life believing everything and slowly he starts putting th pieces of the puzzle together and discovers the truth

Representation

Christof represents God in the movie: he controls everything, cares for Truman and is always watching

The movie represents different things that control us like fear, friends, etcetera

The ocean represents freedom when he loses trust in the people of Seahaven

Themes

Fake vs Real

Truth Vs Deceit

Christianity

Curiosity

Setting

Symbolism

Caracterization

Culture, Identity, community

Beliefs, values, education

Truman is only educated on what the producer wants him to know, ex: the education guides truman away from being an adventurer

The beleifs of the creators is that they are helping Truman by hiding real life from him.

The belief of Sylvia is that it's unethical and unfair to Truman

Politics, Power, Justice

Chraistof controls everything in Truman's world

Art, Creativity, Imagination

Science, Technology, Environment

The environment of the movie is completely created and is completely fake, various things in the environment almost tip Truman to to truth, ex:light falling