A new movie about a sinister tech company with Big Brother aspirations, was going to cure you from your phone addiction, you’re actually better off watching pretty much any episode of Black Mirror. The new film, directed by James Ponsoldt (
), is based on Dave Eggers’s 2013 novel of the same name, which was written almost a decade after Facebook’s inception and a little while before Periscope and livestreaming officially became a thing.
In a time when Congress has agreed to let companies sell people’s search history, you’d think a movie about the potential dangers of massive data collection would feel more urgent, but
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Falls surprisingly short. The movie tells the story of Mae Holland (played by Emma Watson), a struggling young woman who’s working a sad temp job in an overwhelmingly beige office. To her good fortune, her childhood friend Annie manages to score Mae an interview at The Circle, a company that’s basically an imagined combination of Google’s omnipresence, Facebook’s gigantic global following, and 23andMe’s genetic cataloging. When Annie later gives Mae a tour of her new corporate headquarters, The Circle is presented as a utopia for its employees: There’s a gym, daycare, pool, clinic, even a nightclub. Health care benefits are offered to both Mae and her sick father (played by the late Bill Paxton), and all of the perks also come with a high-paying salary, even though Mae works as an entry-level employee in customer service. You know what they say: If it’s too good to be true . . .
The Circle’s more nefarious intentions later come to light when one of its founders, the cultishly admired Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks doing his best Steve Jobs) gives a keynote speech announcing the company’s latest initiative, SeeChange, an easily camouflaged camera that can record anything from any part of the world while analyzing data at lightning speed. Although the concept of having recording devices everywhere isn’t particularly revolutionary—millions of people already have that available at all times in their pockets—the idea of tiny little cameras
In every corner is pretty chilling. But instead of immediately raising eyebrows, Bailey’s announcement of his company’s goal to surveil everyone, everywhere, all the time is met with thunderous applause. “Sharing is caring, ” he says to the audience of his thousands of employees, who chant it right back at him with straight faces.
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From then on, Mae gets deeper and deeper entrenched in The Circle’s anti-privacy ethos, until at one point, after a near-death experience, she agrees to go “fully transparent, ” meaning she’ll be broadcasting her life to millions of followers 24 hours a day. Along the way, she meets a mysterious coworker (played by an under-utilized John Boyega), who warns her of the massive potential for authoritarianism and greed looming just behind the keynote speaker’s curtain. But it’s hard to believe he would be the only person who could see where these things are going. By the film’s abrupt, ambiguous end, you’re left wondering whether The Circle’s employees actually still buy this idea of radical transparency, or whether they’ve accidentally suffered brain damage from drinking all that Soylent.
Back in real life, consumers do willingly share more than they should, and often agree to terms of service without reading the fine print, but they still know where to draw the line. It’s why this week, Unroll.Me, a service that helps users unsubscribe from spam emails, landed in hot water after it was revealed it was selling email data to Uber. But, then again, this week Amazon also unveiled its latest gadget, Echo Look, a small camera-affixed Echo device that’s intended to give users fashion advice (and essentially offers the feeling—if strenuously Amazon-denied reality—of giving their HQ a constantly available live feed to your home) with little backlash.This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. (September 2020 )
The Circle is a 2017 American techno-thriller film directed by James Ponsoldt with a screplay by Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers, based on Eggers' 2013 novel of the same name. The film stars Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, as well as John Boyega, Kar Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glne Headly, and Bill Paxton.
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The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2017, and was theatrically released on April 28, 2017, by STXfilms and EuropaCorp. It received mixed-to-negative reviews, but grossed $40.7 million worldwide against a budget of $18 million, becoming director Ponsoldt's highest grossing feature.
The film's release was posthumous for Paxton, who died in February 2017, and it was the final film of Headly's released before her death in June 2017.
Through her frid Annie (Kar Gillan), call cter intern Mae Holland (Emma Watson) secures a customer support position at The Circle, a tech and social media company. Mae takes the job, hoping to support her parts, particularly her father who suffers from multiple sclerosis, while Mae's long time frid Mercer (Ellar Coltrane) is less supportive. At a company meeting, CEO Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) introduces SeeChange, which uses small cameras placed anywhere to provide real-time high-quality video. Mae rises quickly in The Circle, embracing social networking and meeting Ty Lafitte (John Boyega), who displays suspicion of other, more thusiastic employees. At an outdoor company rally emphasizing the need for accountability in politics, The Circle's Chief Operating Officer, Tom Stton (Patton Oswalt), introduces Congresswoman Olivia Santos (Judy Reyes), who has agreed to op her daily workings to the public through SeeChange. Ty subsequtly shows Mae the area containing the cloud server where all information collected by SeeChange is to be stored. Mae is embarrassed wh she realizes that Ty is the creator of TrueYou, the Circle's social network, and she had not recognized him. He tells her that TrueYou has grown out of his control, and its currt utilization is not what he intded.
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Later, Mae's mother shows Mae a picture of a chandelier Mercer made from deer antlers. She photographs it and shares it on her Circle profile. The image attracts significant negative atttion to Mercer, with people accusing him of killing the deer. Mercer confronts her at work and tells her to leave him alone. Distressed by Mercer’s reaction, Mae goes kayaking at night and the rough waters cause her kayak to capsize, requiring rescue by the Coast Guard, who were alerted to the emergcy through SeeChange cameras, which recorded her acquiring the kayak and capsizing it. At the next meeting, Eamon introduces Mae to the crowd and they discuss her experice of the rescue, which moves her to become the first Circler to go completely transpart, which involves wearing a small camera and exposing her life to the world 24 hours a day. However, this damages her relationships with her parts and Annie, as she accidtally exposes private aspects of their lives to the camera, and they distance themselves from her as a result.
At a board meeting, Eamon announces support from almost all 50 states for voting through Circle accounts. Mae takes it a step further, and suggests requiring every voting citiz to have a Circle account in order to do so. Eamon and Tom approve, but the suggestion upsets Annie. At the next company-wide meeting, Mae says that The Circle believes it can find anyone on the planet in under 20 minutes and introduces a program to find wanted felons in the same time frame. The program idtifies an escaped child murderer within 10 minutes, which prompts the Circlers in the audice to erupt in applause. Mae uses this successful test to suggest transparcy can be a force for good. Mae says that the program can find anyone, not just wanted felons, and someone suggests Mercer. Mae is initially hesitant to use the program to locate Mercer, but Tom persuades Mae to continue. Mercer is quickly located in an isolated cabin. Startled by Circle users descding upon his home, he flees in a car, though a Circle user places a small camera on his car window without his knowledge or const. They pursue him via automobile and a flying drone, which causes Mercer to swerve uncontrollably off a bridge to his death, much to Mae's horror. Days later, Mae calls Annie, who has left The Circle and returned to Scotland, which has improved her well-being. Mae, however, finds that connection with others helps her cope with Mercer's death.
Mae returns to The Circle, despite her parts' pleas. Mae calls Ty to ask for a favor and Ty tells her something that he has discovered. At the next company-wide meeting, Mae explains how connection has helped her recover. She speaks with Eamon, and invites Tom onstage, th invites Eamon and Tom to go fully transpart. She explains that Ty has found all their email accounts and exposed them to the world, as no one should be exempt. Eamon and Tom, clearly upset, try to save face before Tom leaves the stage. Her superiors cut power to her prestation, and the stage goes dark,
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The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2017, and was theatrically released on April 28, 2017, by STXfilms and EuropaCorp. It received mixed-to-negative reviews, but grossed $40.7 million worldwide against a budget of $18 million, becoming director Ponsoldt's highest grossing feature.
The film's release was posthumous for Paxton, who died in February 2017, and it was the final film of Headly's released before her death in June 2017.
Through her frid Annie (Kar Gillan), call cter intern Mae Holland (Emma Watson) secures a customer support position at The Circle, a tech and social media company. Mae takes the job, hoping to support her parts, particularly her father who suffers from multiple sclerosis, while Mae's long time frid Mercer (Ellar Coltrane) is less supportive. At a company meeting, CEO Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) introduces SeeChange, which uses small cameras placed anywhere to provide real-time high-quality video. Mae rises quickly in The Circle, embracing social networking and meeting Ty Lafitte (John Boyega), who displays suspicion of other, more thusiastic employees. At an outdoor company rally emphasizing the need for accountability in politics, The Circle's Chief Operating Officer, Tom Stton (Patton Oswalt), introduces Congresswoman Olivia Santos (Judy Reyes), who has agreed to op her daily workings to the public through SeeChange. Ty subsequtly shows Mae the area containing the cloud server where all information collected by SeeChange is to be stored. Mae is embarrassed wh she realizes that Ty is the creator of TrueYou, the Circle's social network, and she had not recognized him. He tells her that TrueYou has grown out of his control, and its currt utilization is not what he intded.
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Later, Mae's mother shows Mae a picture of a chandelier Mercer made from deer antlers. She photographs it and shares it on her Circle profile. The image attracts significant negative atttion to Mercer, with people accusing him of killing the deer. Mercer confronts her at work and tells her to leave him alone. Distressed by Mercer’s reaction, Mae goes kayaking at night and the rough waters cause her kayak to capsize, requiring rescue by the Coast Guard, who were alerted to the emergcy through SeeChange cameras, which recorded her acquiring the kayak and capsizing it. At the next meeting, Eamon introduces Mae to the crowd and they discuss her experice of the rescue, which moves her to become the first Circler to go completely transpart, which involves wearing a small camera and exposing her life to the world 24 hours a day. However, this damages her relationships with her parts and Annie, as she accidtally exposes private aspects of their lives to the camera, and they distance themselves from her as a result.
At a board meeting, Eamon announces support from almost all 50 states for voting through Circle accounts. Mae takes it a step further, and suggests requiring every voting citiz to have a Circle account in order to do so. Eamon and Tom approve, but the suggestion upsets Annie. At the next company-wide meeting, Mae says that The Circle believes it can find anyone on the planet in under 20 minutes and introduces a program to find wanted felons in the same time frame. The program idtifies an escaped child murderer within 10 minutes, which prompts the Circlers in the audice to erupt in applause. Mae uses this successful test to suggest transparcy can be a force for good. Mae says that the program can find anyone, not just wanted felons, and someone suggests Mercer. Mae is initially hesitant to use the program to locate Mercer, but Tom persuades Mae to continue. Mercer is quickly located in an isolated cabin. Startled by Circle users descding upon his home, he flees in a car, though a Circle user places a small camera on his car window without his knowledge or const. They pursue him via automobile and a flying drone, which causes Mercer to swerve uncontrollably off a bridge to his death, much to Mae's horror. Days later, Mae calls Annie, who has left The Circle and returned to Scotland, which has improved her well-being. Mae, however, finds that connection with others helps her cope with Mercer's death.
Mae returns to The Circle, despite her parts' pleas. Mae calls Ty to ask for a favor and Ty tells her something that he has discovered. At the next company-wide meeting, Mae explains how connection has helped her recover. She speaks with Eamon, and invites Tom onstage, th invites Eamon and Tom to go fully transpart. She explains that Ty has found all their email accounts and exposed them to the world, as no one should be exempt. Eamon and Tom, clearly upset, try to save face before Tom leaves the stage. Her superiors cut power to her prestation, and the stage goes dark,
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