Can't believe he would have never left town for 30 years
What about when he first got his drivers license? Don't you think he would have at least once tried to drive outside of his familiar environment?
shareCorrect me if I'm wrong, but isn't the reason he never drove away from home is because he's surrounded by water and was too afraid to drive over the bridge. Also, he was discouraged from traveling all his life.
shareThat was the reason they used but could you really be manipulated into a phobia that powerful? I remember when I learned to drive, we would go as far as we had gas money to get back.
shareI bet it's kind of an allusion to "It's a Wonderful Life" (much like that black-and-white show they put on his TV: "Show Me The Way To Go Home").
In IAWL, Stewart's character dreams of exploring and going places, but ended up spending his life in his town. Though unlike Stewart, Truman had no Mr Potter to do battle with, so he's trapped in a perfect world that is pretty much a vacation you can never leave from.
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You can't project your own experiences and preferences onto others. I grew up in a small town. Our next door neighbor was 88 when I was a kid, and he had never been outside the county in his entire life. Even when he was inducted into the military in WWI he was assigned a local post. He never thought it was unnatural, and had no desire to go anywhere.
shareAgreed. My maternal grandma never wanted to go anywhere outside her town either. It wasn't until her kids were grown and married that my grandpa started insisting they travel (plus, some of her kids moved out of town, so she almost had to in order to see them more often.) But given her way, she would've never gone more than five miles from her house.
shareYea you're right.
I don't believe a person can so easily be manipulated into a phobia either.
But I guess this is just one of those movies where you have to suspend your disbelief.
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it happens with dogs and dog attacks all the time... I remember some show on tv about Phobias and this really strong body builder guy was terrified of dogs because he was bit when he was young.
the guy literally started sobbing and crying like a baby when they brought a dog near him...
so your point is pretty stupid
Yes you can have a phobia that powerful.
I used to know a guy who had a severe phobia of bridges due to a childhood accident in which his close friend was killed. He would literally freak out when I was about to drive over a bridge. The one time I drove over a bridge with him in the passenger seat, he had to close his eyes and was nearly hyperventilating while holding on for dear life.
By the time I was over the bridge he was drenched in sweat and appeared as if he had a panic attack. He always refused to drive over any bridges himself and I don't believe he was psychologically capable of driving over a bridge without falling into a nervous breakdown.
They tried very hard to make travelling seem scary and not worth it. The travel agency had a picture of a plane getting hit by a lightning bolt haha. I think there were other posters around town too with messages implying that he should leave town.
He was scared to take a boat because they rigged that scene with his father supposedly dying in the water.
When he started to get brave enough to travel off the island, they made it very inconvenient with stalled buses and long lead times for buying a ticket anywhere.