TRUMAN SHOW-THEMES In the Truman Show does love and human decency triumph over commercialisation and voyeurism?

The film The Truman Show is expressing many ideas about the world and current society. One opinion is that the good side of human nature: love and decency will ultimately prevail over the bad: greed and the voyeuristic tendencies which every human being possesses. Another is that it is merely trying to open the audiences’ eyes to see that this is not always the case and that there are always two sides to everything.

The topic of human decency has two sides throughout the movie, the side containing genuine decency and the side containing false decency. The actors that populate Seahaven are an example of the latter. They are ‘good’ and ‘decent’ to Truman but it is only because they are paid to. Everyone from the newspaper man to his best friend Marlon, wife Meryl and parents are actors paid to cater to Truman’s needs.

Meryl plays the perfect wife to Truman; she is happy, enthusiastic and tries to make him happy. However she is only this way because it is her job and s...