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* [[Control Freak]]: Christof is utterly convinced that he knows what's best for Truman and determined to rule every aspect of his life. |
* [[Control Freak]]: Christof is utterly convinced that he knows what's best for Truman and determined to rule every aspect of his life. |
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* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Truman's home town, where everyone's happy and nice and pretty. Besides Truman's father being dead to enforce hydrophobia and the fact it's, uh. ''Fake.'' |
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Truman's home town, where everyone's happy and nice and pretty. Besides Truman's father being dead to enforce hydrophobia and the fact it's, uh. ''Fake.'' |
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* [[Crapsack World]]: ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_18691_the-7-most-ridiculous-movie-character-overreactions.html The 7 Most Ridiculous Movie Character Overreactions] sums it up nicely: |
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{{quote|Think about how many laws have to not exist in that universe for this show to happen. It's apparently legal for a person or corporation to imprison a person, as long as you feed him. It's legal to film and record someone without his knowledge. It's legal to defraud a person out of literally ''every possible thing he could have in his life,'' from a real marriage to a real career. If it can be done to Truman, it can be done to anyone, including you. It's as much an "anything goes" society as ''[[The Road Warrior]].''}} |
{{quote|Think about how many laws have to not exist in that universe for this show to happen. It's apparently legal for a person or corporation to imprison a person, as long as you feed him. It's legal to film and record someone without his knowledge. It's legal to defraud a person out of literally ''every possible thing he could have in his life,'' from a real marriage to a real career. If it can be done to Truman, it can be done to anyone, including you. It's as much an "anything goes" society as ''[[The Road Warrior]].''}} |
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* [[Crash Into Hello]]. Subverted. The woman who was picked to be Truman's love interest falls on top of him, but he falls in love with a girl who is sitting on the lawn a little ways away. |
* [[Crash Into Hello]]. Subverted. The woman who was picked to be Truman's love interest falls on top of him, but he falls in love with a girl who is sitting on the lawn a little ways away. |
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