How The Truman Show Explains Life in 2024

Published: Aug. 29, 2024, 7:30 a.m.

Jon Lovett and Erin Ryan join Max to discuss how \u201cThe Truman Show,\u201d predicted our current era of continuous surveillance and content mining. The movie may be from 1998, but its insights are just as applicable 25 years later\u2014from cults of celebrity, to Fox News, to Instagram. Is Ed Harris\u2019 dome over Burbank a cautionary tale about fascist governance? Do we all hide parts of personalities, depending on context? Why was Jon Lovett freaked out by the Hunger Games premiere? Find out in this week\u2019s Offline Movie Club.