The Circle

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The Circle – 1 out of 5

Fiction loves to use technology as the boogie man.  It’s completely understandable though because tech can be scary—well, the uses for it can be anyway.  However, it’s rare that I find films about tech gone bad or tech goes evil to be that compelling.  I often find this route to be boring and “bottom of the barrel” material.  It’s why I really don’t like the later seasons of Black Mirror.  I know that show is adored but those later seasons felt lazy and like the writers were just saying, “Um…what if this piece of tech was really bad?”  It’s when the narrative focuses on the potential for abuse of this tech while people are blinded by the benefits that I find interesting, not just blanket statements about how tech is inherently evil.  In that sense, The Circle should have been a great film but what was delivered was just a messy film that I found incredible grating to sit through.

The Circle is just an Apple presentation.  This is a horror film!!!!

Welcome to my hell...also, that's my day job.
My life is hell.
Mae Holland (Emma Watson) is down on her luck.  She’s working away at a crummy temp job and has no real prospects in sight for a better future.  After her friend Annie (Karen Gillan) informs her that the tech company she works for; The Circle, is hiring and she secures her an interview, Mae ends up interviewing and quickly getting the job.  The place seems to have it all and more but as the company’s charismatic CEO; Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) introduces a new high-tech, extremely small camera, things starts to show a darker side.  Mae ends up befriending a young man by the man of Ty Lafitte (John Boyega) who informs her that all the products with The Circle are used to collect data on everyone and worries that Bailey and the company’s COO; Tom Stenton (Patton Oswalt), are going to use it maliciously.  Mae eventually finds herself a superstar in the company and starts to see firsthand what their tech and data collecting can do and the potential it holds…for better or for worse.

She's on Twitter tweeting about how the writers of Game of Thrones deserve
to die because she wasn't happy with the ending.  You know, typical psycho
shit we now engage in regularly thanks to social media.

The Circle is a film that, on the surface, holds tons of potential.  The story’s themes of privacy in our social media age are ripe and hold a lot of valuable insights that can be explored.  The problem, however, with stories about social media and technology is that it is easy for them to turn into your crazy aunt on Facebook.  The one who sends out all sorts of conspiracy memes, posts incessantly and then talks about how people are addicted to technology and how things were better in their formative years—this last thing is usually done in the comment sections, on their status or in the form of a “like and share” video by some desperate artist who really wants to show how deep they are by shitting on social media.  And don’t bother pointing out the irony that your aunt is constantly posting and doing the things she is complaining about because it doesn’t matter when she does it, only when those shitty little avocado toast eating lazy millennials do it.  That is essentially where The Circle finds itself...sometimes.  This could have been a movie that discusses the merits of our digital age while exploring its darker sides but, instead, this one went all ballistic and only goes for the extreme and does so with some really sloppy storytelling, terrible character development and an ending that doesn’t really seem to know exactly what it was going for.

Yeah!  That's the exact same face I had the entire time I watched this.

It was really hard to tell what side of the fence this film lands on when it comes to privacy in our digital age.  There are times where the tone of the film and the progression of the plot suggests that our main character is unnerved by the collection of private data and that she is going to rebel against the company but, for some reason, the character leaps head first into what they are doing and goes along with it and the aforementioned terrible prospect of data mining is barely focused on again for some time.  Eventually, Mae’s whole life is put on constant display for The Circle and it ends up making her parents distance themselves from her and even destroys a friendship and you would think this is where the character would start to think that maybe there is something to this whole privacy thing but there’s never a feeling that she is leery of what is happening but totally onboard the whole time.  Even when the film comes to its completion, the film seems okay (?) with the complete obliteration of one’s privacy…but it’s truly hard to tell because so often the film is dealing with the extremes that this possible nuanced ending ends up feeling sloppy and muddled.

Rest in Power, Paxton.  You were taken from us too soon.

The unclear tone and ending are bad enough but probably the hardest pill to swallow in this film is the character development.  I can understand a little mystery behind the evil corporate dudes played by Hanks and Oswalt but their lack of development is so abundant that they pretty much boil down to just standing there in the film.  It’s so bad that I never really got a sense from the characters one way or another if their data mining and privacy invasion was meant for true nefarious purposes.  Yes, invading privacy is inherently bad but it would have been kinda nice to get a sense of motivation from the supposed antagonists of the story.  Sadly, this pales in comparison to how the character of Mae Holland is written.  This character basically feels like she has no independent thought of her own and is incredibly easy to lead.  All the action she takes in this story requires almost no convincing and rarely doesn’t she second guess or act as if the events around her have any emotional impact on her personally.  Occasionally this occurs and she has her moments of doubt but then the character acts out in ways that feel awkward and end up only as poorly set up plot devices to further her eventual embracing of The Circle’s way of thinking.

Hanks is making her look at him.  So she knows he is the captain now.


The Circle might have been something cool or, at the very least, watchable as it explored the potential problems that, let’s face it, we already experience in the social media/digital age but, instead it was a pretty messy film.  With terrible character development that made it impossible to invest in the characters and narrative that felt like it was completely unsure what point it was trying to make, the film proved to be very hard for me to watch and something that was very forgettable in the end and utterly wastes its cast of very talented performers.

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