They tell her that she has already fallen behind on her social media, that she’s not sharing enough with the “community.” She is, they say, the most “mysterious” person at the company (because she’s failed to reveal every last thing about herself). It’s very NSA - which is to say, nothing we haven’t already contemplated in the age of high surveillance.īut then Mae, after several days on the job, gets visited at her desk by a couple of co-workers, and that’s when the real creepiness starts to play with her head. A live feed of that environment will then come right onto your computer screen. On Mae’s first Dream Friday, Bailey introduces a shiny round synthetic camera, scarcely bigger than a marble, that can be attached to any surface. Hanks, warm and youthful in dark hair and a gray beard, plays Bailey with a disarmingly friendly, Steve Jobs–meets–Tony Robbins happy-talk authoritarian boosterism. It’s one of those super-energized youth-cult work environments - think Amazon meets Apple meets Facebook - where selling what the company stands for is built into every interaction. Early on, Mae attends her first Dream Friday, the weekly corporate pep rally in which Eamon Bailey ( Tom Hanks), the company’s co-founder and guru, gets up on stage to point out how everything that’s good for The Circle is good for the world. Mae Holland ( Emma Watson) is an eager, lively, somewhat unsure-of-herself office drone who is lucky enough, through her friend Annie (Karen Gillan), to snag an entry-level job as a “customer experience” manager on the campus of The Circle.
#THE CIRCLE MOVIE MOVIE#
The fascist digital future the movie imagines is darkly intriguing to contemplate, because one’s main thought about it is how much of that future is already here. The movie is smarter and creepier than that it’s a cautionary tale for the age of social-media witch hunts and compulsive oversharing. The company, based in the Bay Area, knows everything there is to know about you - but it’s all for your own convenience! You could call “The Circle” a dystopian thriller, yet it’s not the usual boilerplate sci-fi about grimly abstract oppressors lording it over everyone else. The movie, adapted from Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel and directed by James Ponsoldt (“The End of the Tour”), is about a corporation called The Circle that stores massive amounts of data - financial, medical, social, personal - about each of the account holders who belong to it. It’s a nightmare vision of what digital culture is turning all of us into, with all of our help. “ The Circle” is a swankly sinister little mind teaser of a thriller.
0 kommentar(er)
