The Circle
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
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- Cast：
- Emma Watson , Tom Hanks , John Boyega , Karen Gillan , Ellar Coltrane , Patton Oswalt , Glenne Headly
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People are voting emotionally.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
If you watch it with the same mind frame you'd watch Black Mirror....you'll be fine. It's not as good as Black mirror unfortunately. But I guess it could open some people's minds.
Lots of reviews saying it's "shallow" etc... I don't know how people could be so oblivious to the fact that this is the world we're walking into - although I guess I work with these kind of platforms as a profession, so maybe I see more into it than most people.Maybe not "political manipulation", but we're moving into a world where I believe politics will be less important, and the big tech companies like Google and Apple will be running the show a lot more.I was going to give this a 10/10, but then it didn't end properly... It just sort of stopped. So sadly, I feel the writers could have done a far better job in actually finishing the movie off.Very interesting movie though, and probably not too far off what our near future will be like.
The film has all the likeness to a Black Mirror episode but is no where near on par.
It had the futuristic abstraction elements to be a "Black Mirror" episode, though, not a very well written one.Expected it to be a decent movie, but it fell short from every aspect - characters, story, ...
