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PCJ Pop #28 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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