We already live this - same problems as The Truman Show

After thinking about the premise and this show a lot, I wanted to express some of my thoughts about it.

In a way, we already live this, if we take this as a metaphor or even a literal thing, just with a different type.

The corporate 'culture', being hypocritical, surreal, filled with lies, propaganda and 'marketing talk', and these weird rules - in essence, corporate wage slave is ROBBED of his/her humanity as much as..(in)humanly? possible.

People live their days in weird, fabric-covered, dull, grey cubicles or other cubelike things, go to useless meetings that do nothing but waste everyone's time, and all in all, dull their minds so creativity goes to a coma, if it doesn't die.

It's hard to imagine a cubicle worker being a successful artist in their free time, most of which is filled with work-related stress and decompression from all that crap. Not to mention the corporate 'drama' and the surreal non-reality about all of it.

Now, in a more direct way, don't we all 'wake up' all the time, to a reality that resembles something we just 'went asleep' in? I mean, we literally fall asleep every day/night (whatever the case may be), just to wake up to the same, dull reality - after visiting more interesting reality, memories of which quickly dissipate.

It's like this show is actually depicting 'sleep / wake' cycle we all live. In one hand, we get to do amazing stuff when we sleep, not being bound by the physical, or any of the 'rules', but on the other, we have to return to the physical and lose most of the memory of our more cosmic adventures. This is enough to drive someone crazy, when they realize it.

Many times we don't remember our 'dream side' at all, so we basically experience the same, mind-numbing drudgery of 'everyday life' or 'mundane existence', ALTHOUGH we do 'float freely in dreamstate' every time we sleep. In a way, this show describes this - we are so unaware of our magnificent explorations on the cosmic side, when we wake up in the physical reality and start making coffee. We may remember a theme or a feeling, but we don't remember the exotic locations and people we traversed with, shared our most excellent journeys within differently-dimensioned realities and other galaxies.

However, in the end, this movie does it a bit wrong, as everything has to be physical. It's like a rule in TV, even if you make a 'surreal' TV show, everything has to be so physical. Even in Dr. Strange movies, people attack each other physically SO much. Things that ABSOLUTELY don't need to be physical, are - often even other dimensions or ethereal beings or whatnot.

This show's premise would work better with HYPNOSIS in my opinion. The way it's done, is just silly.

The show also suffers from the same problems 'The Truman Show' does. Why would the woman remember 'Delaware', know what a 'mother' is, have understanding and knowledge that they were 'children' or that they have a past, if ALL non-work-related stuff is supposed to be forgotten? Why LET them retain or know this information, so they can 'miss the knowledge of what it was like to be a kid'? Why let them know kids exist or that they grow old or whatnot?

They let them have too much knowledge of the outside world for the premise to be believable - that they even know there IS an outside world is outrageous.

Truman didn't need to know about Sirius. Why label a stupid lamp 'Sirius', when Truman has no way of knowing what it's supposed to represent? Why even let him know -anything- about there even being any 'outside world'? Why travel agencies or mentions of Colombia and Fiji? It makes no sense. They don't control what they are supposed to control, so they kill their own premise just so the story can happen.

The premise is pretty interesting, though who the hell would volunteer for that anyway, and they ruin it by making 'innies' and 'outies' separate personalities, and having people talk about 'THEIR' outies, when they should say 'ME AS AN OUTIE' instead. It's not something outside of themselves that they own, so they should never say 'my outie' or 'my innie', but 'me as outie' or 'me as innie'.

It's also ludicrous that people would change so drastically - no one changes their values just because they don't remember.

A violent psycho doesn't become peaceful just because of amnesia, and a peaceful vegan doesn't become a hunter flesh-eating enthusiast and animal cruelty psycho just because they forget the details.

They would still find the smell of burning or rotting flesh disgusting (things most people on this planet, for some reason, think of as 'food'), they would still be horrified to know about the cruelty done in an everyday basis to innocent animals en masse.

A non-conformist doesn't become a corporate mouthpiece seeking to please their 'superiors' just because they lose memory of their 'free time self'.

This show fails, in my opinion, because there's not enough story, and things are revealed too slowly.