The Truman Show

The Truman Show has many similarities to The Allegory of the Cave and The Hero’s Journey . The show illustrate how easy it is to manipulate people and it also shows how a man can over come the manipulations by becoming a hero.
In The Truman Show , the main character Truman was a product of his own father ,Christof’s manipulation since he was a baby. Everything around him was a set up from where he lived, the place worked, his friends and even his wife. He lived his entire live under a dome on a fake island much like the prisoners in The Allegory of the Cave who were chained up in a cave since the were young and they were exposed to a world that it was created for them. In each case a world was created that was entirely false but true to the characters who were living it..
Even though, the Truman was constantly persuaded to believe that in the world that he was living in was real he began to sense that something was not right by paying attention to a series of little details that they were happened during his daily life such as the neighbors were always there on time and were so predictable just like they were a scenes in a movie , the traffic was also the same routine, the memories seemed to be too perfect that these details make him realize that something was not quite right, He decided to play a trick on whoever was controlling his life by making them believe that he still was being under their radar . Next, Truman began sailing away thinking he was going to escape and be with the women who he had fantasies for not knowing that he was still being manipulated by the producer his father. Truman was easily emancipated because he didn’t know for much of time that he was being manipulated just like the prisoners in the cave until one of them was freed. Even though, Truman was held captive for so many years he became the biggest hero for many of his viewers who have followed his life story from the beginning. 
The Truman show gives us an idea that if enough things in our life are controlled we will believe that what we are living in the life we living.. Its only when we question things are Truman did and start free ourselves that we can see things for what they are and make our own reality.