A True Truman Show

Allow me to channel my inner Jim Carrey channeling his inner Seinfeld, In Living Color style.

Ahem.

What is the deal with all the dualism in The Truman Show?

Whhhhy is there a set of twins that interact with Truman more than once in the movie, Ned Ryerson style (another reference to a 90's classic ;), and all the other twin/dualistic ideas put into the movie?

Truman's Stalkers

Just to take a couple more off the top of my head:

There's the part where Truman and his lifelong best friend, whose name I forget and it doesn't matter, reminisce about copying each others' tests, therefore making them "identical."

There's the set of two old ladies who watch the Truman Show religiously, both looking very much alike.

Similarly, the two girls who work at the diner, and the two security guards, are dressed alike, faithful Truheads all.

Here, uniform twins (and one's wearing a cross)

.....

Is this a stretch yet? I've been sitting here for the last 5 minutes trying to recall another that occurred in between these examples and it escapes me.

Ah, yes, there it is. Just spotted it in the film.

In the scene right after Truman finds his dad, now apparently a hobo who has been living off scraps within the show's dome, for the last 20+ years, when Truman is telling his "mother" of this incident, he asks if dad had a twin.

So there's a fair amount of twins shown and identical peoples referenced throughout the film.

Why?

Two suspicions, I have. One, it could all be foreshadowing when Truman uses a big plastic snowman as his copy in bed while he sneaks out of the house and heads for the water. Or two, and I prefer this theory more, at the climax, when Christof, that is, the Truman Show's showrunner, speaks to his corporately adopted son, urging him to stay within the dome and therefore the show, he is very clearly acting like God, speaking from the clouds and all, whilst elsewhere, Truman's dream girl, the one who was fired off the show years back for trying to Morpheus Truman out of his Matrix, prays that Truman takes the horizon door exit with a "please God." Christof then urges Truman to "say something, Goddamnit, you're on television!" These are the only references to God in the entire story if I'm not mistaken. Two characters both vying for control over Truman's soul, his dream woman, who wants to give him freedom, and the guy who literally behaves like his God, whose name can be broken down to "Christ of," or "of Christ."

Almost like twin Gods.

Janus, Roman God of Beginnings and Endings, Dualities and Doorways. From Wikipedia.