Passion can blinds ones thinking and reasoning by giving them hope of fulfilling their most passionate dreams , while not thinking of ones fears or consequences. When having too much passion for something or someone you can be blinded by some many things in the world. You lose the idea of thinking about things and always going with what your heart tells you to do. In the film The Truman show, the director Peter Weir explores the idea of passion. The Truman show is about a middle aged man having his life video without him knowing and having it put on television for peoples entertainment. In the film, Truman is the star of the show but when it comes to has passion you see it mostly in Christof. Christof is the director of the show The Truman show. Toward the end of the show Truman does show passion but overall Christof shows it the most. Moments were you see this great passion is Christof speaking to Sylvia, Christof trying to convince Truman to stay and when Truman is leaving.

Though Truman is the star of the show Christof really demonstrates the most passion in what he does in the movie and how it affects the reasons of the things he does to Truman in the movie and the consequences resulting from it. When Christof is talking about Truman he says “He can leave whenever he wants to.” Christof is saying this to Sylvia a former cast member on television when she calls to rant about how Truman should know he’s on television. Though Christof says this he does anything in his power to stop Truman from leaving. He does this by crushing his dreams of exploring and stopping him from climbing to see what’s on the other side of the rocks. Though Christof says these things are good for him I personally do not see it. As show throughout the movie, Christof’s passion is deeply shown when there’s a video of Truman and he’s sleeping not only is this on a large screen, but Christof is petting him like he’s his own son. He acts a god figure and has so much love and passion for Truman that he never wants to let go of him or let him leave. As illustrated Christof has successfully blinded him from really thinking about what he wants. To be a part of this world or the real one and often overlooking not having Christof decide for him.

Christof illustrates his passion towards the show and Truman most effectively. Christof tries to convince Truman to stay, he does this by saying, “Why are you not leaving yet? Are you to afraid? “Or he says, “I know you better then you know yourself.” I believe that this does confuse Truman into having doubts in his decisions to leave and having a different point of whether or not should he leave. Christof having so much passion of Truman and the show he doesn’t want his star to leave. That all the actors’ lives are at risk and even Christof own. This demonstrates that Christof wasn’t aware of the consequences that would occur when Truman grew up and found out about his life being an illusion that he didn’t even think of the idea that Truman wouldn’t want to be a part of it anymore if he knew his life was a lie. This shows that when people don’t know about the truth the consequences of it all can have a larger effect when finding out the truth of it on your own.

Truman passion to find freedom may be shield but when it is demonstrated it is powerful. Just having that one thing that you want can leading you to have so much passion and not even thinking about what consequences it may bring. In the movie, Truman is on the boat and sailing away, he truly does not think of anything other than wanting to get out of this place and exploring the world. When Christof started the storm they all expect him to turn around and stay in the show because he will be too scared to continue, but no matter what Christof does Truman keeps going and holds onto that dream of leaving. Even when going to the exit door he knows what he has to do because it’s his dream to see the world the way it truly is without it being prefect.

Passion can blind ones thinking and reasoning by giving them the hope of fulfilling their most driven dreams, while not thinking of ones fear or the consequences. As I have explained The Truman show really demonstrates how having passion for something or someone can lead to terrible consequences and creating large effects on their life.