The Truman Show contains striking parallels to Gnostic ideas: a false world, a controlling creator figure, a trapped individual who begins questioning reality, and an awakening that leads him toward the truth beyond the world he has always known.
Truman’s journey from ignorance to awareness mirrors the Gnostic idea of escaping illusion through knowledge.
Was it simply clever storytelling…or was the film drawing from something much older?
[Via: the.hiddenprotocol / @benwehrman]