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- Hello, I'm Olivia.
- And I'm Shauna.
- And this is your PCJ Pop for the week.
We're gonna throw it back to a time, a simpler time.
We're going back to 1998.
- Oh, The Truman Show.
- The Truman Show.
- The--
- I love this movie.
(laughing)
- Okay.
- Yes, I think Koli.
- I know that it is from 1998.
- Kind of the really early creation of reality TV, right?
- Right.
- If you've never seen the Truman Show, it is,
I mean, I have a more favorite Jim Carrey movie,
which is "A Turn'al Suncheon" and "A Spotless Mind."
- Okay, that's right.
Mine’s “Liar, Liar."
- Both of those are all good, babies.
(laughing)
- So it is, I would say this is probably like the early,
one of the first serious movies that Jim Carrey did.
- Mm-hmm.
- But the Truman Show is about an insurance salesman
who begins to suspect that his whole life
is actually some sort of reality TV show.
And Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank.
We have Laura Lennie in it as his wife.
And oh my god, it is just such a deep movie.
I don't wanna spoil it if we've never seen it.
Again, it's from 1998, but it really does look at
how we consume reality television,
how we really create these parasocial relationships
and how we're ultimately like playing,
like these producers play God.
It's an incredible--
- And it's the people's mental health.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, ultimately I think it is such
a beautiful movie and really considers so many
like deep aspects of like human life.
Like is there a sense of fulfillment
and if you're living a lie,
like how does that ultimately boil down to it?
- Yeah, it's funny, but it's not like
over the top Jim Carrey funny.
It's just kind of like earnest funny, you know?
- Yeah, and like I said, it's one of the like first really
deep thoughtful movies that Jim Carrey did
and I hadn't watched it in a while.
I feel like I watch it every like three or four years
and ultimately it is just such a beautiful movie.
It's incredibly iconic in its symbolism as well.
There are just so many different things
that get referenced through pop culture
and art and things like that.
And yeah, I think that, you know, if you've never seen it,
it's amazing.
If you have seen it, I think it is,
even more relevant case study today
to the way that we've ever watched.
- Yeah, I think craving that movie.
It's on like one of my, like my list in my phone
of movies I need to rewatch,
but I can't find it streaming anywhere.
- It's on Netflix, baby.
- All right, I know what I'm doing tonight.
- Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
And yeah, in this penopticon world that we live in
of self surveillance, I think it's absolutely
very pertinent to the world that we live in today
and the way we consume other people's lives
and parasocialty lives.
So for this week, for each pop,
the Truman show you can stream it on Netflix.
And that's it for your PCJ Pop.
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