The Truman show..

The movie the Truman show has allot of similarities to the Matrix as well as the allegory of the cave. The Truman show was based on the life of a man who was adopted by what i guess i could call a television cooperation. He has gone his entire life not knowing that he is really the star of a reality show which in deed is his everyday life he lives. At first when first watching i thought "how could someone live their life not knowing the truth?" But comparing to the Allegory of the cave the prisoners who lived in the cave didn't even know they were prisoners. The only life they knew was what they lived inside. That's like dropping myself on a island telling me to adapt to a culture I've never heard of or seen. Everything would be foreign to my virgin eyes. What got me in the movie"the Truman show" is when the wife was advertising products, from the beginning she seemed so fake and commercialized it made me mad because normal people don't act like that,and the director of the show said he choose that life for Truman so he could life a normal life. Having a perfect life married and kids is the American dream"supposedly" but its not realistic,we go through problems everyday that sometimes cant be avoided. After the woman he felt attraction toward him explained how he was part of a show and everything was fake he questioned if she was saying was true. I think after his fathers so called "death" then seeing him he knew in his heart that there was more to the life that he lived,that there was truth behind what his mother and wife said. Comparing it to the matrix, the way Neo's choice of the red pill let him know the truth; i look at the woman(Lauren) if I'm not mistaken she symbolizes the red pill. He chose her truth over what his wife as well as his friend tried to convince him to believe.