In the Truman Show, Truman has lived his whole life as a lie, but he doesn't know about it. His whole life is a reality TV show but he doesn't even know about it. His friend since he was 7 is an actor, his wife for a while is an actress. The town that he lives in is the biggest film studio in the world because it's all fake. Descartes said, in a nutshell, that life was a game of deceit that God or a genius or a demon was playing on him, that nothing in his life was real. The deceiver/s in the Truman Show is/are the director for making Truman go through with this since he was born without any say in the matter, and the actors and actress in Truman's life that go through with lying to him about his life.
Throughout this whole lie he is forced to live, the one thing Truman can actually depend on being true and genuine is his own existence. Descartes says that "Then without doubt I exist also if he deceives me, and let him deceive me as much as he will, he can never cause me to be nothing so long as I think that I am something." Connecting back to Truman the quote means that even though Christof made his life a whole lie he wasn't able to fully deceive him because Truman thought he was real and that is all that mattered.
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