
With such an abundance of symbolism and hidden meanings within the movie The Truman Show, much had to be left out of the chapter on this wonderful film. If you read the chapter on this movie in Buried Movie Treasures, maybe you were keen enough to notice a few omissions. Below is a list, and one that may keep growing, of some of the "secret messages" I left out of the discussion on The Truman Show.
Trumans's license plate starts with the letters 816, which is a Bible reference to Romans 8:16, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the “children of God.” As we have established, the show’s creator is a symbol for God, and Truman his “son,” making then Truman, literally, the “child of god,” as his license plate hints to us.
The neighbor Spencer has a dog named Pluto. In Greek Mythology, Pluto is one of three gods that rule over man, and hence, rule over Truman, since he is a symbol for mankind in this film. The other two gods are Zeus, who rules the heavens, and Poseidon, who rules the seas. Both of these gods also make appearences in the movie. Can you guess where?
When Truman reflects his dilemma on the beach, lightning flashes on the sea before him. In literature, lightning, or storms in general, are used to symbolize a confrontation coming, or the "clashing of fronts," as the conflict of the story reaches a head, in our story Truman's longing to search for Sylvia versus his current state of remaining in his unrewarding marriage to Merideth.
Maccabees 9:72 ( the radio station Truman listens to is 97.2) He restored to him the captives whom he had taken previously from the land of Judah; then he turned and went back to his own land, and did not come again into their territory.
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