system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Truman Show] Why was Truman made aware of the existence of boats and planes and such, only to discourage him from seeking them out? Why didn't they just not tell him such things existed?
gpt
To make the show more realistic.  The whole point of the show was that it was someone's life.  It had to be an idealized version of an actual life.  Creating some scenario where he couldn't escape the island would diminish the realism of the experience.  Without the notion of boats and planes the reality collapses to a zoo.  The creators would naturally want to minimize the zoo aspect of his existence and its negative ethical implications.