Re: the Truman Show

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 00:21:16 -0700

>Did anybody notice that in the end the huge full moon was hanging in the
>sky close to the Sun? It looks nice of course, but even a school astronomy
>textbook could teach one that this can't happen. Somebody told me that
>Truman may have been taught some fake astronomy so that he feels

>comfortable in a photogenic world, but I am not sure - anybody has other
>interpretations of this scene?

I noticed it immediately. It was, of course, a setup for the later shot of the skydome. Fake astronomy being a minor sin in this context of course.

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