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Parallels Between The Truman Show and Platos Allegory of the subvertThe movie, The Truman Show is about a reality television show that has been created to document the carriage of a man who, adopted at birth by a television network, is tricked into believing that his life, his reality, is normal and the environment that he lives is real. It is rotary in a town called Seahaven, which is essentially a simulation of the real humans similar enough to the outside world that the viewing audience give notice relate to it. The town is a television studio inside an grand dome in which the weather, the sun, the sky, and all the actions of the citizens are directed by a team of special effects people. The entire show is directed and produced by the creator of the show, Christof. Truman Burbank, the star of the show, is the only one who doesnt know that he lives in a giant studio and is surrounded by an illusion of reality. The entire world watches Trumans movements twenty four hours a day, seven days a week through the use of thousands of miniature hidden cameras.The Truman Show well-nigh parallels Platos Allegory of the Cave. Initially, Truman is trapped in his own counteract a film set or fictional island known as Seahaven. Truman?s journey or ascension into the real world and into knowledge is similar to that of Plato?s cave dweller. Truman, much like the prisoners in the cave, would know no difference indeed what they have been taught or shown to be the real world their whole lives. If T...