Peter Weir’s film The Truman Show tells the story of Truman Burbank, a
man unaware of the fact that he has been the star of his own reality TV
show since the day he was born. When a journalist asks Christof, the
director of the show, how he has managed to keep this secret from Truman
for so long, he replies: ‘We accept the reality of the world with which we
are presented. It’s as simple as that.’ Truman thinks he is an ordinary man
living an ordinary life, but his entire world is a lie: the place where he lives
is a television set with cameras hidden everywhere; everyone around him,
including his wife and friends, are actors playing their roles.