Narratology

           I am going to analyse a film via Tzvetan Todorov’s theory of Narratology. And the film is “The Truman Show” (1998, Peter Weir).

Bulgarian structuralist states that narrative films based on similar structure. And the film should start with an equilibrium. It can be as positive, neutral, or even bad circumstances around the main character. In this case, “The Truman Show” begins with positive start. Truman spends his one of the usual day.

After that is the next step of structure is disruption. It means that something has gone wrong because of some event or character’s action. In the film disruption happened when Truman met unscripted girl who told him that everything around him is artificial.

The next stage is recognition. It when the main character realised the problem. Truman sees that around him all actors, someone looks at him through the hidden cameras. And he understands that whole world where he lived is not real.

Next comes the attempting to resolve the problem to come to the new equilibrium. The protagonist has gotten the goal to escape from this unreal world to get freedom then. He tries to find the boundaries of the world.

And the last stage is re-equilibrium. Characters resolved disruption, thus, they get new or old balance of their environment. Truman found the exit from that world/show and finally, he can start his own life in real world, in which depends on him only.