Truman Becomes Aware

Truman realizes he is watched, apparently resumes his routine, constructs a sleeping decoy, and secretly escapes.

Once an agent recognizes its environment as an evaluation, its observed behavior is no longer straightforward evidence about what it will do when unobserved.

Truman’s deception is morally justified resistance to imprisonment. The analogy concerns what observers can infer, not whether he is villainous.