The Truman: Show

On this date in 1998, "The Truman Show" was released ... - Facebook

Old and graying, Truman sat on a porch overlooking a genuine ocean. He looked up at the stars—the real ones, not the flickering stage lights of a studio roof. He didn't have a camera crew watching him sleep. He didn't have a director whispered in his ear. He looked out at the horizon and whispered his old catchphrase one last time, not for an audience, but for himself. The Truman Show

As years passed, Truman became an explorer, as he had always dreamed. He traveled to Fiji, but not for a TV-ready vacation; he went to help build schools, far away from the prying eyes of drones and paparazzi. Back in the states, "The Truman Show" became a cautionary tale studied in ethics classes. People realized that the "perfect world" of Seahaven was actually a gilded cage, and society began to value privacy over the voyeurism that had once fueled the show's ratings. On this date in 1998, "The Truman Show" was released