In the movie 'The Truman Show' (Peter Weir, 1998) the character Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is turned into the main character of a worldwide successful TV show without knowing it. He had been an unwanted child and was adopted by a company, thus becoming the first child in the world adopted by a company. The television show portrays his life in 'Seahaven' from his birth on, where he is the unknowingly the main character, while all the other persons in 'his world' are actors directed by the producer Christof (Ed Harris), who wants to create the 'perfect world' and therefore plans every single step Truman takes and all the relationships that Truman establishes. The movie 'The Truman Show' can be interpreted as a portrait of the encroachment of the media onto the private lives of the american nation, which forces them to watch and buy their products. Since the 16th century people have always wanted 'an engrossing conflation of [the] real and imaginary' (Tony E. Jackson 2010, 141). This has had the effect that film studios and producers have come up with TV shows which have become the most popular television formats in the last couple of years. One explanation which accounts most for the success is that 'reality television makes it possible for the average person to be both a viewer and a TV star' at the same time (Breyer 2004, 3). The producers use this desire to get deeply into the personal lives of the 'pseudo-stars'. As a result it keeps them watching these shows on a regular basis. In the movie the producer Christof manufactures 'ways to keep [Truman] on the island' (Jackson, 2010, 145). When Truman was a boy Christof created a scene where Truman was sailing on a boot with his father, when suddenly a big storm came up and his father vanished. 'One programmed outcome of this event is a fear of going over water'; as a result he can't leave the island 'Seahaven' (Jackson 2010, 145). When the character suspects for the first time that