The Office, Identity, and Self-Awareness \ Flip Cam Film School | Plot Holes & Pot Holes Ep. 21

Описание: Episode 21 starts in a normal place: sitcoms, nostalgia, the so-called golden era, and The Office. Then it immediately stops being normal.

When Jon mentions The Office, Mitch flags it as a perfect example of a thing people absorb so hard it becomes their entire personality, which gets old fast. That opens the door to a surprisingly serious conversation about identity, humanity, and what it means to be self-aware. If consciousness is our greatest strength, it is also the mechanism that lets us spiral, overthink, and misread everyone around us. Jon and Mitch dig into how we understand ourselves, how we fail at understanding other people, and why the brain’s shortcuts can be both useful and brutal.

On the drive home, the tone loosens up. Mitch tells the origin story of his early filmmaking days: a Flip camera birthday gift, an April Vacation fantasy movie with friends, and an education he did not realize he was getting. He also drops the kind of shoestring, tournament-viable indie strategies you only learn the hard way: fund props with saved lunch money, skip writing and let improv carry the scene, and absolutely do not trust your entire movie to one computer and a prayer.

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🕳️ It’s a little all over the place, but so is your brain during rush hour. Join us for the ride.