Discussion questions for The Truman Show

1. What was the meaning of the movie? What message do you think the creators of the movie
were trying to convey?

2. To what extent do you think this movie is revealing about our society or human nature?

3. In what ways can art illustrate ideas that would be hard to communicate otherwise?

4. What moral and ethical problems do you see with making a program of this nature? Who are the
responsible parties? Who is guilty of ethical infractions?

5. Would the show have been possible with his consent?

6. Do you think you would watch the Truman show if it were on today?
7. Was Truman’s world actually ideal?
8. Could that artificially constructed world be ideal if
9. Once Truman realized his world was not “real” should he have left it? What problems
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11. Which situation best matches Truman’s world. Plato’s The Cave, Descartes’ meditations, or
the computer simulation hypothesis?