Eamon Bailey: Circulars, Do you like to share?
Everyone: Sharing is Caring
Eamon Bailey: We're so fucked.
Short: The Circle is an aimless, underdeveloped tech/spy thriller that fails miserably across most if not all measures. However, if one abandons a historical (or really any) perspective; then The Circle becomes a frighteningly amoral tale of group think futurism run amok. -Chilling.
Long: For some reason, I couldn't help but think that the creators of The Circle were looking to remake 1987's The Running Man. I know you think I am joking, but I am not. Our protagonist commits a crime and suddenly her world is broadcast out 24hrs a day for the entertainment of the masses and as a way to ensure her compliance. Internet masses are the new gameshow crowds. Then later, we/The Circle/the internet find criminals and friends alike through a gamified system. The whole world of the The Circle has become The Running Man.
What's more interesting is that The Circle seems to have been written by a corporate marketing board. And I think that was the intention of the writers. (They buried the point...but brilliantly.) Our future will have been product tested, solutionified, actioned, and branded. The truth will not be entwined with beauty, it will be tied to profits, simplicity, and the death of pain points.
2.78 out of 5: Honestly, this may be the kind of movie that college kids get to watch 20 years from now and talk about our present. I really don't envision anyone every casually coming across The Circle rebroadcast on TBS, so I don't advise making extra effort to see it. -but if you do, listen to everything backwards while on your head looking in a mirror.
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