The Truman Show: An Imperfect Utopia?

In the film The Truman Show by director Peter Weir, the viewer is presented with a rural utopia. The star of this paradise is a life insurance salesman named Truman Burbank, portrayed by Jim Carrey. As we go through Truman's day we see how the world, literally, revolves around him and yet, we see that it is not a world at all, but a set. In fact, as the television narrator informs the viewer, it is "one of the only man-made objects visible from space." At the helm of this television marvel is the show's director, Christof, played by Ed Harris. From the beginning the viewers can realize tha…