1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,580 (upbeat music) 2 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:09,120 - Hello, I'm Olivia. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:10,120 - And I'm Shauna. 4 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:14,440 - And this is your PCJ Pop for the week. 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:19,160 We're gonna throw it back to a time, a simpler time. 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,560 We're going back to 1998. 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:22,520 - Oh, The Truman Show. 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:23,360 - The Truman Show. 9 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:24,360 - The-- 10 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,760 - I love this movie. 11 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:27,840 (laughing) 12 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:28,680 - Okay. 13 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:29,960 - Yes, I think Koli. 14 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,800 - I know that it is from 1998. 15 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,800 - Kind of the really early creation of reality TV, right? 16 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:38,640 - Right. 17 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,680 - If you've never seen the Truman Show, it is, 18 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,800 I mean, I have a more favorite Jim Carrey movie, 19 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,480 which is "A Turn'al Suncheon" and "A Spotless Mind." 20 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:48,320 - Okay, that's right. 21 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:49,160 Mine’s “Liar, Liar." 22 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:50,800 - Both of those are all good, babies. 23 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,040 (laughing) 24 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:58,400 - So it is, I would say this is probably like the early, 25 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,960 one of the first serious movies that Jim Carrey did. 26 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:02,960 - Mm-hmm. 27 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,600 - But the Truman Show is about an insurance salesman 28 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,480 who begins to suspect that his whole life 29 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,120 is actually some sort of reality TV show. 30 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,560 And Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank. 31 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,280 We have Laura Lennie in it as his wife. 32 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:27,280 And oh my god, it is just such a deep movie. 33 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,320 I don't wanna spoil it if we've never seen it. 34 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:34,320 Again, it's from 1998, but it really does look at 35 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:39,200 how we consume reality television, 36 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,200 how we really create these parasocial relationships 37 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,280 and how we're ultimately like playing, 38 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,160 like these producers play God. 39 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:51,000 It's an incredible-- 40 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,920 - And it's the people's mental health. 41 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,760 - Yeah. 42 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,760 - Yeah, yeah, ultimately I think it is such 43 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,760 a beautiful movie and really considers so many 44 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,320 like deep aspects of like human life. 45 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,680 Like is there a sense of fulfillment 46 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,840 and if you're living a lie, 47 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,440 like how does that ultimately boil down to it? 48 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,400 - Yeah, it's funny, but it's not like 49 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,080 over the top Jim Carrey funny. 50 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,320 It's just kind of like earnest funny, you know? 51 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,240 - Yeah, and like I said, it's one of the like first really 52 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,520 deep thoughtful movies that Jim Carrey did 53 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,200 and I hadn't watched it in a while. 54 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,600 I feel like I watch it every like three or four years 55 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,400 and ultimately it is just such a beautiful movie. 56 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:41,400 It's incredibly iconic in its symbolism as well. 57 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,560 There are just so many different things 58 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,040 that get referenced through pop culture 59 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,120 and art and things like that. 60 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,480 And yeah, I think that, you know, if you've never seen it, 61 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:52,320 it's amazing. 62 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,200 If you have seen it, I think it is, 63 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,200 even more relevant case study today 64 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,880 to the way that we've ever watched. 65 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,120 - Yeah, I think craving that movie. 66 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,320 It's on like one of my, like my list in my phone 67 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:07,600 of movies I need to rewatch, 68 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,120 but I can't find it streaming anywhere. 69 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,000 - It's on Netflix, baby. 70 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,560 - All right, I know what I'm doing tonight. 71 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,920 - Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. 72 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:20,640 And yeah, in this penopticon world that we live in 73 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:23,600 of self surveillance, I think it's absolutely 74 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,160 very pertinent to the world that we live in today 75 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,480 and the way we consume other people's lives 76 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:29,920 and parasocialty lives. 77 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,120 So for this week, for each pop, 78 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,960 the Truman show you can stream it on Netflix. 79 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,280 And that's it for your PCJ Pop. 80 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,860 (upbeat music)