A few questions about the set he lived in...
Okay, so I know that this film was so pre-occupied with it's ideas that we never got to explore the technical side of Seahaven. I think that would've made the film easier to watch and a lot more praised than it currently is. Here are some flaws about the set built for Truman:
As we know, the sky is one large dome. When Truman's boat at the end puts a hole in the sky, we see that it's sort of made of like a plaster type material with painted clouds. However, this seems ridiculous because; how would they make sky cloudy, sunny, etc when the clouds are painted on there? How would they change? Not to mention, the sky/dome would need to change to mimic parts of the day like morning, and even sunlight. How? If the dome isn't made of pixels or whatever to display a 360 image, what is the plaster for? As we know, the sky is made of plaster, which means that something must be projecting images onto the surface. Where is this projector?
What was the sirius light for? Most likely the sun. So *sigh* if the sun was most likely a bright spotlight made by this projector, why do they have lights? Surely, this is pointless because when somebody would look up, they would see the lights that make the sun on the roof of the set, and they would probably resemble tiny dots. If the set is too far up for the lights to be visible, the you would still be able to see the shadows of the lights that aren't being used. It's kind of like looking at the top of a soundstage: You would be able to see the stage lights, right? Now, imagine that the soundstage roof is so high up. If those lights were turned on all the way up there, you would see clumps of lights. Imagine how many it would take to create one large sun.
How do they make rain? Where are these sprinklers and why can't we see them when we look up at the sky?
Making weather. Now, my question isn't so much how, but where? If they make a set sooo large it's visible from space, then surely, there must a LOT of engines and machines, and thousands of tonnes of heavy equiptment to mimic weather. Yet, all they do to control it, is create a few touch screen bars. WTF? If you had thousands of machines producing weather, you wouldn't just tap the screen, and they're all working?! There should be thousands of controls to control each aspect of the machine to create weather-and strong weather at that, which could potentially overheat and crash the machines from producing so much energy.
Come to think of it, this is a really stupid movie. Asked too many questions, didn't answer any of them.