The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir, produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, and written by Niccol. Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, a man who was adopted and raised by a television network inside a giant set, and whose life is broadcast as a reality television show for audiences around the world.
early adolescence is when The Matrix and The Truman Show both came out.
""The movie "The Truman Show" is mentioned as a cultural touchstone that, in the speaker's experience, contributed to feelings of depersonalization and derealization during a period of severe depression."