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I was asked, after I saw the movie, what significance there was in the name of Cristof, the brains behind the long-running program, and the benevolent (?) captor of Truman. Was it a reference to the artist Christo, or was it suggesting him as some sort of Christ-figure?
As you might suspect, I'm going with a third theory, that they did it for the sake of predestining the outcome of the movie and tying it to those scars from the past alluded to above. You see, as you recall, Truman makes his escape only to be found sailing in the open sea. Christof fires a vicious storm at him, but that fails to prevent him from trying to attain his goal of reaching The Other Side. Finally, Truman's Creator speaks to him in an attempt to convince him to turn back. He argues both rationally and emotionally, but in the end it is all in vain, as we knew it had to be, as foretold by those three little words ...
Christof blew persuasion
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