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Truman Show, The

This movie externalizes the existentialism by creating a world whose purpose is to trap and immobilize the protagonist. Significantly, his existential act is to leave a loveless sham of a marriage, and not to commit to it.

Protagonist: Truman Burbank
Aesthetic Preoccupation: Truman's entire life is an aesthetic/entertainment experience, although he doesn't know it.
Affairs: Married to a paid actress
Repetition: Lives a repetitious life, and constantly returns to memories of a past relationship.
Death: The faked death of Truman's "father" --another symbol of the inauthenticity of Truman's life.
Existential Humanist Act: Goes in search of his "true love."

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