Instead, there's just vague yelling about "the cloud" and "Soylent" and "being social.
(It seems odd that a movie about the perils of social media wouldn't spend more time on trolls or cyberbullying, for instance.) The film has no interest in how our online presences have changed the way we see ourselves and relate to each other. There's no understanding of what makes social media so seductive in the first place, or the very specific terrors that have come out of it. I won't presume to know how familiar the filmmakers are with social media, but I can say that The Circle feels like an anti-social media tirade written by someone who tried sending a tweet once and decided he hated it. The Emma Watson starrer, The Circle is a techno-thriller film which released back in 2017 and is helmed by filmmaker James Ponsoldt. So it's bizarre that The Circle seems so very proud of itself for suggesting that the internet might have some downsides. These are all debates worth having, and they're debates we've been having ever since the internet was invented. The Circle wonders what we give up when we log on, what privacy and freedom are really worth, whether it's really possible to be ourselves online, what happens when giant corporations get into bed with governments.
It shouldn't take a genius to spot the troubling implications of his arguments, or how they connect to real-world issues of privacy, transparency, and security. Think Steve Jobs by way of Tom Hanks, played by, well, Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks and Emma Watson in The Circle (2017) IMDb.
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