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The Truman Show And The Allegory Of The Cave The Truman Show and the Allegory of the Cave It is clear that the producer of The Truman Show has read Plato. His film is loaded with the same ideas found in ancient philosophy. This is why we watched it while studying Plato and Socrates. The Truman Show is about deceiving appearances, absolute control, and the search for truth, which are all major themes in philosophy. The film is remarkably similar to Plato’s allegory of the cave. In his allegory of the cave, Plato asks the reader to imagine humans living in a dark cave, chained so they can only look directly at the cave wall. Behind them is a fire that casts shadows on that wall. Between the prisoners and the fire is a path on which people are carrying various artifacts in different shapes. These artifacts cast shadows on the wall. The prisoners, since all they can see are the shadows, accept these shadows as the actual objects. The shadows are the only truth they know. Plato then asks us to imagine what would happen if one of the prisoners were to be set free. He hypothesizes that a freed prisoner would be look toward the light and truman, cave, shadows, christof, life, show, wall, truth, plato, out, film, allegory, world, very, truman’s, true, set, seahaven, reality, prisoners, philosophy, light, fire, every, even, difficult, control, begins, asks, about, until, understand, unaware, tries, time, strange