NOKW - The Truman Show

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  The Truman Show

Basic Plot:  A dude unknowingly has his ENTIRE life filmed 24/7 and it is broadcast as reality television, but he eventually figures it out and escapes.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that people thought watching a normal guy doing everyday stuff was good TV.  The fact that holding a person against his will and filming him without consent didn't get the creators of The Truman Show instantly arrested.  The fact that it took Truman 30 years to figure out that something was really strange about his life and that everyone around him was acting.  The fact that the creators of the show were able to keep Truman in his town for so long without him becoming suspicious.  The fact that more people didn't try and put a stop to this insane experiment of a TV show.  The fact that the creator of the show actually tried to kill Truman on live TV and probably will not be arrested for his attempted murder.  The fact that his life will be way worse off by leaving his fake life because he will be the most recognizable person on the planet and will never get a moment's peace like he would have if he stayed on the show.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that there is no way that the creators of the show will ever be able to recoup the cost of Truman's fake town.  The creators of the show literally built an entire town called Seahaven and put it in a massive dome that can be seen from space.  The town and dome alone had to have cost billions and on top of that, they have the technology to control the weather which can't be cheap.  And sure, the show is on the air for 30 years, so maybe they would be able to get back their investment through advertisements, but think about the other costs that go into the show.  Each person in that entire town is an actor and therefore that is an entire town's worth of people who they have to pay a yearly salary.  Then there are the maintenance costs for each building and what about the security of making sure people did not try and sneak into a structure that is so large that you can see it from the International Space Station.  Add all that up and I have no idea how this show even got past the budgeting stage of pre-production.  I am not okay with that.

"That's just his street and that alone would cost a lot, but they built a town in a bubble that can be seen from fucking outer-space and that would cost billions."