The Truman Show (1998) - 10 questions

Question: Why didn't they just bring Silvia/Lauren Garland back on set, to stop him finding out about Truman's true nature? It was Silvia that Truman wanted to go off and go to Fiji with.

Answer: Because she would have revealed the truth to him. That's why she was removed from the set in the first place.

Question: What was behind those rocks Truman was climbing up when he was about 4 and his dad tells him to come down, it's not safe?

Answer: It's never stated. There may have been something that could have tipped Truman off as to the true nature of his existence, but it may simply be part of trying to instil a sense of fear in Truman regarding the unknown, as part of the ongoing attempts to keep him in place.

Question: At the start of the film, where the stage light falls from the 'sky', it says Sirius on it. Are we meant to presume that this stage light lit up the place in the sky where the star Sirius would be in real life?

Answer: That would seem like a logical deduction, yes. The light was presumably on some sort of track to allow it to simulate the movement of the heavens caused by the rotation of the Earth.

Question: What is the song that is played during Truman's high school dance, when he sees Sylvia get replaced?

Answer: It's a cover of T-Rex's Twentieth Century Boy, performed by Big 6.

Question: There seems to be a major plot hole in this film. A big deal is made about dissuading Truman from leaving the town. If he was raised and educated in the studio, surely they could have simply taught him that there was nowhere to run to, that the town where he lived was all that existed. Is the answer to this ever explained in the film?

Answer: Truman isn't stupid, the only way you could convice him of this would be to say he is living on a colony on another planet, which would make for a much different show. Truman is also an explorer, so unless he believes that going out will kill him, he ain't gonna be dissuaded.

Question: The imdb puts red dwarf as one of the Truman shows influences. Anyone have any idea how?

Answer: It says "references" not "influences". This is probably a reference to the Red Dwarf episode, "Back to Reality", in which the crew are tricked into believing that their lives aboard Red Dwarf are all part of a computer game that they've been unknowingly playing. A pretty tenuous link, but that's most likely what they're referring to.

Question: If Cristoff wanted to get rid of Lauren/Sylvia, then why does he continue to show flashback scenes of her?

Answer: For ratings. He took her off to keep her from telling the secret of Truman being in a fake world. Knowing that Truman has feelings for her, Cristoff uses this to make the audience connect more with Truman because everybody feels his pain of losing his first true love.

Question: While Truman is performing the closing act in the film, we see him being watched all over the world by various people. Two security guys in a car park are watching when a guy taps on the window. The guard says something like "Just leave it in the car." What's he referring to?

Answer: Money to pay the fare for parking. They work in a car park.

Question: When Truman is looking at the photo album by himself what is it that he sees in the wedding photo that makes him act oddly around Meryl the next morning?

Answer: In the wedding photo, she has her fingers crossed which means she doesn't agree with what she is doing. Obviously because she is just an actress. The next morning when Meryl leaves, Truman says "I'll cross my fingers for ya" and she looks at him funny.

Question: In the scene where Christof touches the large green screen on which Truman is shown sleeping, what is the name of the piece of music that is played by the man on the keyboard to the left of Christof?

Answer: It's just a piece from the soundtrack. I think it's called "Truman Sleeps".