The Circle
Directed by:
James PonsoldtCinematography:
Matthew LibatiqueComposer:
Danny ElfmanCast:
Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Patton Oswalt, Bill Paxton, Glenne Headly, Ellar Coltrane, Poorna Jagannathan, Amir Talai, Nate Corddry (more)Plots(1)
When Mae (Emma Watson) is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity of a lifetime. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks), to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her friends, family and that of humanity. (Tribeca Film Festival)
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Interesting in places and makes you think about halfway through (the election), but in the end it is still a predictable routine with a sniffing finale, in which you will learn everything in a few dozen minutes. I would expect something bolder than such a simple critique of all those internets. Tom Hanks was great, Emma Watson less so... And John Boyega's character? Deus ex machina, nothing else.
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After spending two hours on things that a proper thriller would use as a starting point or additional motifs, The Circle’s
plot ends at the moment when a proper thriller would only start to escalate. I commend the fact that the film points out
the loss of privacy and corporatism of today’s interconnected world, but the way it does this is transparent and naive. At
least Emma Watson is nice to look at. Her sober acting give the film some character, thus saving it.
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That feeling you get when you are offered a position of a hotline operator and you are completely ecstatic. But I had no idea what the Circle company was about. Otherwise, I was rather disappointed. The whole idea of the movie seems to me naive rather than interesting. It goes to the absolute extreme where people are the perfect sheep and social networks go through a perfect recession. On top of that, Emma Watson’s acting is so believable that no matter what she did I would be shocked. And that’s actually what happened.
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I was looking forward to a demonic Tom Hanks but it didn’t happen! The plot about installing Big Brother in every household wasn’t bad, but the film ends at the very moment when it could at last have started to operate in the nicely presented world. Emma Watson is pleasantly down to earth, but that’s more or less it. P.S. I liked the clean design of all of the apps shown.
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The film has an incredibly good theme, but there were simply too many elements here that bothered me and spoiled the overall experience. First and foremost it was the character of Emma Watson, who I just didn't find good, her development odd, and her motivations lacking. Then there was also the smallness of the theme, which seemed to have only local impacts, not global ones, with just a few hints. But it will make you think, a lot. And that is a good thing.
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