Simulação do real e a espetacularização do cotidiano: reflexos da vida pós-moderna em O show de Truman

Abstract

In light of some concepts regarding reality, illusion and hyperreality composed by some philosophers and researchers, as such Platão and Arthur Schopenhauer, and contemplating studies that provides interpretations of the Post-Modernity and of the Postmodernism, as such Jean Baudrillard, concerning the control that is exercised by the media and the spetacularization of the daily life, this research has, as the main objective, to analyze the postmodernist individual, represented by the character Truman Burbank, from the film The Truman Show. This research is also concerned on the verification if this cinematographic construction under study reflects our own lives on the contemporaneity.