SummaryAs she rises through the ranks of the world’s largest tech and social media company, The Circle, Mae (Emma Watson) is encouraged by company founder Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) to live her life with complete transparency. But no one is really safe when everyone is watching.
SummaryAs she rises through the ranks of the world’s largest tech and social media company, The Circle, Mae (Emma Watson) is encouraged by company founder Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) to live her life with complete transparency. But no one is really safe when everyone is watching.
The Circle is very much a plea for the preservation and sanctification of privacy, but it’s nicely constructed in that no one character expresses the film’s distinct point of view.
The Circle is a tonal mess: part satire, part moralistic melodrama. Some of it is broadly acted, some of it subtle, much of it overheated. It has great moments, though.
"The Circle" captivates with the performances of Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. Watson's portrayal is both compelling and nuanced, drawing us into her character's journey. Tom Hanks adds his trademark charisma, creating a dynamic on-screen presence. Their performances elevate the film, making "The Circle" an intriguing and thought-provoking cinematic experience that keeps you hooked from start to finish.
The novel is at its most trenchantly funny when depicting the exhausting nature of virtual social life, and it’s in this area, too, that the movie gets its very few knowing laughs. But it’s plain, not much more than 15 minutes in, that without the story’s paranoid aspects you’re left with a conceptual framework that’s been lapped three times over.
It’s a movie that desperately wants to be timely and relevant, warning us about the Brave New World threats we all face when it comes to privacy, surveillance, and freedom. But it’s so cartoony and ham-fisted it sabotages its own argument.
Ponsoldt—who also directed The Spectacular Now and The End of the Tour—has a great feel for intimate conversation, but he’s all thumbs when it comes to The Circle’s attempt at stylized allegory.
I went into this film without any expectations and I was pleasantly surprised by how much i enjoyed it, it's a modern take on the Truman Show and corporate life in a big company, perhaps like google/apple whilst exploring modern themes of a big brother type society, lot of twists and turns and unexpected events, the progression and depth of the story telling was really intriguing.
Despite a message film, an average!
A book based film. Pretty much set in the present world scenario. The world where the internet, the social media is controlling people. If any revolution must take place, that's none other place than the virtual world. So a young woman who worked hard to get a job in a leading tech company, starts her life anew. At one end, aged and seriously ill parents, and the other end, making an unexpected leap in the workplace lead her to be a celebrity overnight. But it's only going to change her life forever, but how is to know, one must watch the film.
It was an Emma Watson's film. Tom Hanks was is an important role, but Watson led the show. Nice theme, but predictable storyline. I indeed guessed the end, which spoiled my watch. Slightly an awareness film too. Not all the technology can make life better, but sometimes opposite. Particularly, the film highlighted the privacy issue, how important it is for everyone. And at a same time, transparency too can bring a major change in society. But it all depends on the people and their professions. Surely not to be missed, despite you enjoy it or dislike it.
6/10
The Circle. Oh boy. What starts off as an interesting premise quickly devolves into boring and predictable schlock. The elements that are not boring or predictable are completely baffling. Seriously, some plot elements are remiscient of "The Room." This isn't helped by the fact that this movie features some truly terrible performances from Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. There were even some unintentionally hilarious scenes that reminded me of "The Wickerman." There are some okay ideas that are brought up, but overall the terrible execution really decimates any messages this movie had.
When a girl got a job in a giant company, a company that is getting investigate for crimes, she needs to sell the kind of social media that they created together with their features. While she is in the place seing peoples living only by their phones and the privacy getting sacrificed in favor of the security and transparency that they call. This movie it's an adaptation of the book The Circle, and is directed by James Ponsoldt.
This does have a clearely critic about people that expose themselves to much in social medias, getting rid of their privacy a little each at a time, posting things every moment or showing where you are and are doing to the whole world in seconds. Also they talk about people that doesn't get out of the phone, and kind live there instead of real life. This is the most possible current discussion that they could do to reflect our society nowdays related to this movie, it makes you think in about it in the movie and this was a good point here.
The story in this movie is a big struggle, the conflict that the character is facing is introduce very further on the movie, so before that there is so many time spent with not important things for the story, it does have problems with continuity and the lack of creativity also it is problem that bother so much, the movie goes for simple places and simple ideas in the internet world, once that they choosed to go for this direction the could have thought in some different things, as the same time that this doesn't present nothing new, it doesn't excites in almost any aspect, the dialogues are not smart and doesn't seem organic and natural. The movie does some narrative choices that are so strange, like there is a character that create the whole thing, he lives among them all and no one know who he is or what is his name, this felt so out of place, they could have explained that a little more. The movie is repetitive in the most boring way as possible, the movie is completely clumsy, is like they didn't knew what they were doing. The movie have some quotes that are really dumb, the movie invents new concept of democracy, and that was ridiculous, it goes in the completely wrong way. The character seems to accpet some really crazy things during the movie, things like envolve almost torture and shocking things like it was nothing, doesn't questioning or anything, i got to think that it would reverberate later on the movie, but they don't go further. The build of the character was another awful thing, they trie to do one thing, but doesn't build it.
The acting is ok considering the material that they had to work with. Emma Watson have nice expressions and convince in some moments, she as the main character was a good reason that i was able to watch the movie till the end. Tom Hanks did a pretty good job, he did a great body movement with his character, he speak with clear and firmness, his speaches are probably the best thing in the whole movie. John Boyega is totally wasted here, he pretty much have nothing to do until the very end, and even with that he doesn't have any presence, but then again, it most likely not his fault considering the material that he had to work with. Karen Gillan did a nice job, her character feeling tired and have kind of a journey, have the same problems as John's one, the material wasn't the best to work with.
The cinematography it is cool, it does have some aspects that like shows what it is happening in the computer in a nice way, i enjoyed the aspects of technology showing up in the screen as they were popping up in a phone. The quality of the image while they are filming it is pretty nice, it really have an aspect of filming wich is ok. The camera keeps moving and that was nice.
The soundtrack isn't nothing special, in some moments it works, but in some things just feel so out of place that it is kind of ridiculous.
This movie wastes the opportunity to discuss important things in our society. The story is totally messed up, it does have some really dumb lines and the lack of reaction in some moments make this movie be a not good one.