Such a picture is of course quite terrifying, which is the most detailed and vivid expression in Orville's "1984". And many scenes in the movie are to transform the words in the novel into visuals, and present them in front of you and me: from opening your eyes in the morning, to dressing and washing, to going out to greet the neighbors you meet, every move is nowhere to be seen. The absent camera is closed in the eye. Many of Truman's shots are presented in a closed "frame", which is the mirror image reflected by the ubiquitous camera, representing gaze, peeping, and control. That’s right—Big Brother is watching you! So we can imagine that when Truman heard the voice of the director directing and dispatching the actors in the car, how terrified he was-a huge, invisible external force has completely taken personal privacy. Under surveillance, the existence of human beings does not serve the human being, and has become the object of external control!
You can certainly understand this external force as a totalitarian political force, but Michel Foucault tells us that control/domination does not only exist in a totalitarian society, but is "institutionalized" in all aspects of modern society. The rational subject and objective knowledge are nothing but the product of modernity, the result of power control under specific social and historical conditions. In the book "Discipline and Punishment", Foucault examines in detail the prison's metaphor for the "discipline mechanism" that exists widely in society. Unlike schools, factories, and the military, prisons must be fully responsible for all aspects of the disciplined person, including physical training, work ability, daily behavior, moral attitude, and mental status; prison is a closed discipline that is not subject to external interference , There is no internal fracture until the goal is achieved. Therefore, prison is a kind of non-stop discipline. However, the prison in reality is a kind of tangible discipline after all. Compared with the invisible discipline mechanism widely existing in society, it is really insignificant. The tragedy of Truman is not so much because he wants to escape the big prison of seahaven, but because he has already internalized the "prison" and has lost the urge to go out. In the movie, the anchor asked "Why Truman still doesn't know what kind of world he lives in?" Christof's answer is intriguing: we accept the realities of the world we are presented. What kind of realities? The director used Truman’s wife Meilu to say that when Truman clamored to go to Fiji, Meilu’s excuse was: "We want to provide for the house, we want to provide for the car, how can we leave it?"
In a sense, seahaven in the movie can be seen as a satire on the conservative values advocated by conservatives. This value emphasizes traditional values, family values, and resolutely opposes abortion, homosexuality, and pluralist values. Since Reagan took office, it has increasingly occupied the United States. Mainstream ideology. The elegant housewife in the townhouse always has her hair undisturbed, she is always patiently making Italian pasta, waiting for the return of her husband and children. The kind neighbor will always greet her husband warmly when he sees his husband coming home with a briefcase. Of course, at this time, the neighbor must be mending the lawn on his own lawn. The "chef's knife", mococo coffee, Ford cars used to chop and grind everything. Advertisers have long stipulated what brand of knife, coffee, and car should be used for the standard middle class. "Truman show is a life syle, a noble life, a truely blessed one" (Meilu language) christof One of the purposes of creating truman show is to promote a model life to the audience, one for family, husband and wife, neighbors Love, and the mainstream life infiltrated by consumerism.
However, as revealed in the movie, the "model life" advocated by conservatives is actually just another "model drama", an illusion: behind meticulous home furnishings, stylized smiles and greetings, there is hopeless hypocrisy. , Depravity and Despair-Just like Wisteria Lane in "Desperate Housewives".
At the end of the film, Truman chose to escape from seahaven (Chinese translated into Taoyuan, which is more reliable), and chose the outside world. True, as Christof said: "The outside world is as false as the world I gave you, with the same lies, the same fraud, but in my world, you don’t have to be afraid of anything." But the problem is that you choose false Beautiful, or real dirty? This seems to be a Hamlet question: to leave, or not to leave? In fact, it is a fake question: Even if Truman stays, he will not be able to return to the "good" past? He already knew his identity, so he could no longer show comfortably. If there was the only true "trueman" in the previous truman show, then there is now "nothing true" anymore.
The producers of truman show worked hard to keep Truman in seahaven. From the pouring cold water of the geography teacher (there is really nothing left to explore) to the headline in the newspaper (the best place on earth: seaheven voted planet's best town) to the poster of the travel agency (it could happen to you). Of course, the cruelest thing was to single-handedly create the "distress" of Trumen's father, which made it impossible for Trumen to get rid of the fear and guilt in his heart. My question is: Why don't you let Truman know about the existence of the outside world and believe that seahaven is the world and the world is seahaven? Of course, the answer to the question is not important. The important thing is that the question is put forward. It reminds us that the best way to imprison an individual's mind is to let him shut his eyes and listen. The most fatal structural flaw of utopia lies in its closedness. A healthy and progressive society is, first of all, an open society, because an open society conforms to the nature of people "living elsewhere" rather than hindering this human nature.
Therefore, the truman show is doomed to collapse, because the dense cobweb control cannot match the free mind. As Truman said, even if you set up 5,000 cameras, you can't install cameras in my mind.
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