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"Jeff Rioux wrote: \n: I disagree that The Truman show does this.  Truman's world was a world of lies (there \n: was a world outside of the dome that did exist - it wasn't heaven, but it was a real, \n: physical world). To reject Christof's world of lies and leave the TV set seems more \n: akin to rejecting the principalities and powers which try to define for us a life outside of \n: the Kingdom of God than to escaping the real world. \n \nWell, according to the Gnostics, this world is a world of lies, too, and the real world is the world of our own inner divinity that the demiurge has made us forget. \n \n: Indeed, at the moment Truman is about to walk out the door, Christof warns him of \n: the life of pain and disappointment waiting him on the other side (hardly what the \n: Gnostics were striving for in their seeking to escape the world). \n \nJust another one of Christof's efforts to control Truman.  (As Shakespeare said, \"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.\")  And we don't see any \"pain and disappointment\" waiting for Truman on the other side -- all we see is this beautiful girlfriend. \n \n: He does need to reject the world of lies, and in doing so in front of millions of people \n: (in my opinion), teaches them to reject the role (false identity) that Christof has \n: given them (ie, mindless consumer of television). \n \nDoes anything in the film lead us to believe that ANYbody LEARNS to reject the role of mindless consumerism?  Quite the opposite -- the film ends, IIRC, with one of the viewers saying something like, \"Let's see what's playing on another channel.\" \n"
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