Pedolfi-Shandor once wrote, "Life is precious, love is more valuable, and if it is for freedom, both can be thrown away." ”

It wasn't until his father's reappearance that Truman really realized that what he longed for was not a material life, nor a spiritual life, but just freedom. That's the simplest, but it's also the most difficult.

From slaves seeking emancipation, to blacks seeking equality, to women seeking recognition...... The impetus of the entire history of mankind is the process of constantly pursuing and embracing freedom, which is the most basic one of human rights and interests, the most easily ignored one, but it is also the most important one, which is the reason and basis for human beings to exist as an independent individual. Without freedom, nothing matters anymore.

Living in Seaside, living in this peach blossom paradise, Truman's life is perfect, there is no doubt about it. But vaguely, Truman felt as if his life was being manipulated, as if it were ...... It's like the hand of God.

the death of his father and his resurrection; The sudden departure of his first love, and then the disappearance of Fiji without being heard from; His studies were smooth sailing, step-by-step, and even his work after graduation was smooth sailing; His wife fell in love, but never had any children, and even if there was a dispute, it quickly disappeared, as perfect as if it were real......

It's all like, it's like a framework, binding himself, he's just a puppet in someone's hand, and when the time comes, he's supposed to go to school, and then graduate, work, get married, and have children; When the time comes, he should be happy or unhappy, and then his friends appear to accurately calm all the irritability in his heart; When the time comes, he should be happy, as if all the problems in his life can be resolved at any time.

But is it really God who is in control of all this?

Some people say that this is fate, this is fate, so they resigned themselves to follow the instructions of fate, and even gave up struggling, only complaining about God's injustice and fate's tricks; But some people say that this should not be fate, because no one can "decide" this life that belongs to them.

Even if it is God, he is not qualified to decide a person's life, because only he has his own life, and this freedom cannot be replaced, and only he can decide whether this period of life is miserable or happy, beautiful or bad, happy or sad. There is no way for others to live a life for themselves, and those days that seem happy and miserable to outsiders are really experiencing only themselves, so they are the only ones who are qualified to speak. Freedom, that's the qualification.

Truman finally found the piece of the puzzle that he was missing, but he didn't know how to pursue it, he only knew that Fiji was that dream, maybe Fiji was his destination for freedom, he could go there to find Sylvia, he could go there to see a completely strange world, he could get rid of the shackles and find a completely different life......

So, the dream of freedom is the real reason that drives Truman to make a change, so what will Truman feel when he knows that all this is just a lie?

Hugo looked up at the cookie-cutter streets of the town of Seside, without any features, like an elaborate box, ordinary but exquisite, simple but meticulous, but tightly wrapped the whole town, the flawless life was breathless, as the dock uncle had just said, there is no perfection in the world, and once perfection appears, it will be suffocating.

Hugo originally thought that he would be able to feel Truman's mood because he was also living in a "dream state", but later Hugo found out that this was not the case.

Hugo is now living in a "dream", but in this dream he completely let go of his hands and feet, enjoying his freedom to the fullest, enjoying his dreams to the fullest, he threw himself into the torrent of dreams, and strode forward without regrets, so he realized too many impossibilities.

He led the glory to death to create his own musical era and reawakened the faith of rock and roll; He became a top actor, not only won two Oscars, but also went further and further on the road of acting; He possessed property that ordinary people could not have imagined, and even if he was at home from now on, he would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life—and it was a very luxurious and wasteful kind; He has power that is beyond the reach of others in a lifetime, making half of Hollywood vibrate because of his every move; His global recognition is unsurpassed, and he has almost reached the peak of his reputation; He truly understood the meaning of fatherly love - including maternal love, and enjoyed the happiness brought by family affection; Although the road of love is still long and difficult, he has found the object of all the love in his heart, how lucky; Friendship is his greatest pride, and he has met a large group of sincere partners and moved forward hand in hand......

If someone wakes up Hugo at this time and tells him that all his thoughts in the past few years have been just a "dream", then he can wake up without regrets. Regrets, of course, but there will be regrets in any happy life, which is unavoidable; He may also collapse because the dream is so real that he has no way to return to reality, and may even collapse in pieces...... More possibilities, Hugo will readjust to the real life outside the dream, and truly let go of his hands and feet to enjoy life.

It can be said that Hugo was free, and at the same time realized his dreams, especially in this dream.

But Truman is different, if Hugo wants to stay in this dream, then Truman hopes to be able to get rid of the shackles of this dream, spread his wings to embrace freedom, and chase his dreams.

What does it really feel like when Truman knows that his life is a hoax and that all of this is false? My marriage, my job, my love, my friends, my own experiences...... Even his parents are just a cleverly arranged game, and his whole life is just a piece of text in someone else's script, without any meaning.

What does that feel like?

What's even more terrifying is that not only does his life have no meaning, everything is just deliberately arranged, but also his life is still a grand "show", becoming a commodity that entertains the world, as if he is just a joke, a toy, a puppet, if the words in the script may still have a soul, then such a Barbie doll does not have any soul.

But...... He has a soul and a mind, and he is a living person, a person with the ability to act autonomously. But not only did he show his whole life to the whole world, but he was not even allowed to have a soul. It's terrible, it's hateful...... It's even more pathetic.

His whole life was shattered in an instant, and if he overreacted, he might even collapse and be completely destroyed. Just like the story of the "Matrix", not everyone can be a savior, more often than not, the cruel truth will easily destroy the entire soul, and even have no chance to escape from reality, and will be directly defeated.

Hugo walked slowly through the streets of Seaside, looking at the simple and ordinary fragments of life, and he thought: If I were Truman, would I collapse after knowing the truth? This is an unsolvable hypothetical question, and Hugo will never know the answer, because no answer can be credible until he has actually experienced such a grand wave.

In fact, Hugo and Truman still have a lot in common, because both of them are just a link in the entertainment industry chain, a commodity without life characteristics, a medium and means for profit, and a doll controlled by "God".

Although Hugo is now standing at the pinnacle of Hollywood's power and is gradually controlling his own destiny, in fact, in the eyes of Wall Street bigwigs, Hugo is still just a cash cow, still just a priceless commodity, and transactions and interests are their core goals.

Shirley Lansing's dedication and focus, Mark Canton's persistence and sincerity, Kevin Pence's friendliness and closeness, Robert Iger's kindness and humour, including Ron Meyer's compromise and warmth...... Hugo, who stood at the top and looked at the mountains, has become one of the powerful in the eyes of others and has become the one who calls the shots, but in the eyes of these top tycoons, their overtures are only because of the interests that Hugo represents behind him. So, they're not friends, they're just partners.

Or, to put it more pessimistically, they are just a relationship of interests -- a relationship that is stronger than gold when interests are booming, and as thin as a cicada's wings when interests wither. Once one day, Hugo's career suffered a failure, or even collapsed, and there was no use value, then all the aura and attention will disappear now.

The same goes for Truman. It's like Truman's name," Truman Burbank said. Burbank)", like the name of the town of Seaside, Truman-Burbank is only a name that appears on paper on a whim - Truman literally translates to "real people", real people; And Burbank is the location of Los Angeles's world-famous media and studios, and the studio built by the entire program team in the movie is in Burbank.

This is the true meaning of Truman's name, without any thoughts, without any thoughts...... It doesn't even make sense. What's even more ironic is that "Truman" is called Truman, a real person, but in fact his life is completely false, everything is just a story written by the screenwriter, he never even really existed, just a character, a symbol, or a commodity in a movie or variety show, when it is over, the movie is over, and the variety show is terminated, this character will disappear with their disappearance. He is just a "fictitious person".

Hugo Lancaster, Truman Burbank, "Helena Jenny"