Welcome to the Modernist Truman ShowFrom John Wayne and the Western motif to William Shatner and the sci-fi motif, Hollywood has been obsessed with the concept of the frontier, taking this concept from an American ideology that encourages men to advance into the unknown. Often, however, it seems that these men are more fleeing from society than running into the unknown. And in The Truman Show, that's what Truman is really doing: running into the unknown to escape the responsibilities of his current life. Thus The Truman Show, which appears to be a hip postmodern film about subjectivity, is actually a modernist film that connects to the frontier metanarrative in which society represents a constraining world, and the frontier embodies the male fantasy of escapism without responsibility. , two worlds exist: the controlled society that exists in a giant bubble and the unpredictable "outside world" that Truman only discovers at the end of the film. In essence, these two worlds of the film are respectively synonymous with "real" society and vice versa...