Ahhhh The Truman Show, my favorite motion picture, the comedy that makes you
             question absolutely everything. Its a movie about a show about a guy who is being watched on
             television all over the world, lives in a fabricated community, and is the only person on the planet
             who is completely oblivious to the whole plot... at least for a while. For most of Truman's life,
             the director of the show manages to make him believe that all he sees around him is genuine,
             spontaneous, unscripted life, when in fact Truman is trapped in the middle of a soap opera with no
             way out. The film deals with many of the same topics that we've been learning about in class.
             There are the different types of knowledge, the different ways of knowing things, and several
             theories regarding what is true and what isn't.
             The Truman Show started with 5 unwanted pregnancies. Truman, born early, was
             selected and started the show with nothing but his A priori instincts. As he grows, his gumption
             combined with necessity create in Truman, a paradigm. This is how it works for just about
             everyone. Except in Truman's case, everything that he perceives has been artificially created in
             order to construct a type of reality in which he may be manipulated. An aspect of the show that
             attracts many viewers, but that threatens the show in its entirety, is the concept of paradigm shifts.
             Toward the end of the show, Truman undergoes a number of these shifts. One of the hardest of
             the shifts for Truman to understand is when he sees his father (who was lost at sea when Truman
             was very small) living on the street as a bum. As soon as it is evident that Truman recognizes the
             bum, he is forcibly removed from Truman's sight. The audience was very excited, but the
             Director was scared out of his mind. A few more of these shifts occur to Truman through the rest
             of the movie; when his radio announces his car's loc...