ABSTRACT
As Hans Blumenberg has pointed out,2 the firm, self-assured position of Lucretius' spectator sums up a whole approach towards life, one that favours theoretical, 'objective' reasoning over individual exploration and praxis, external and detached observation over involvement and immersion in things, a secure status of spectator over the agency of the actor, fixity over fluidity. I will come back to this in my analysis of The Truman Show, a film that ingeniously reworks the opposition sea versus haven/land, as well as the one between actor and spectator.
