Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Truman Show and Rene Descartes

        Rene Descartes' ideas brought a skeptic approach that impacted the future of philosophy, history, science, and religion. He believed that all he saw - colors, sound, the earth itself - was nothing but an illusion crafted by a superior genius. Like, in the movie, The Truman Show, Truman's whole world was created solely around him. Christof was Truman's superior genius; ruling over every aspect of Truman's life. Friends, family, neighbors; all carefully selected by Christof, for Truman. Descartes envisions a deceitful, trickster God - which Christof turns Christof's infinite power manifested Truman's life, but also festers Truman's hatred and betrayal when he learns of the truth.

Truman giving himself a bow before leaving Christof's world forever

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