EXT. EARTH

   “The Truman Show” does a very good job of supporting the existentialist idea of existence preceding essence as well.  We as Christians believe that the opposite is true.  We believe that God knows everything about us before we are conceived and that our soul purpose in life has already been decided:  To love God with everything that we are, forever.  This film has a different outlook.  All the way up until Truman becomes a grown man, he goes with the flow.  He accepts everything the way it is, but feels in a way that everything that he knows himself to be isn’t quite right.  Truman has what we would all think to be a good life, but he feels that there’s something missing.  He somehow can’t help but feel that he’s not the person he wants to be.  Throughout the rest of the movie Truman thinks and acts in ways that completely warp the person who he thought he was.  Instead of following the rules and regulations, he rebels and decides to create his own future for once.  He creates his essence after existence.  Up until the very end it’s all about recreating himself and when he walks through the door at the end, it’s his ultimate act of defining himself through experiences and choices.

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