This movie was nothing like I think it was going to be. Really, I had no idea what it was going to be because this was one of those movies that the trailer told you nothing! I just knew that it had Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega in it. However, this movie is very interesting. This is about a work community called The Circle. Innovators of the internet if you will. They want to give everyone one place where all their passwords are, to see every event that is going around them and give new ideas for new way of connecting with each other. However, when one of the new guppies almost dies kayaking she is "shown" how wonderful it is to be all sharing, and showing to the internet, and a company, all at one time. She becomes totally transparent and shares almost every second of her life with an ever watching pubic. At what cost with it take for her to never be alone.
Let me start off by saying that the cast was wonderful. Not only did you have the before mentioned actors but I was happily surprised when I found that Karen Gillan was in this movie...
Most of you know her as Nebula from the Marvel films but the truly educated know her first THE Amy Pond from Doctor Who!
Anyways, this film was really entertaining but also very nightmare-ish to say the least. The reason is because this something that we are totally heading to. Everyone everywhere is constantly online. We are on for work, for play, because we are bored, or to show off how happy are lives are, even when we are not. We have to stray relevant because we don't want to slip away into obscurity. For many obscurity is worse than being dead. We give ourselves crazy rules that we "have" to live by like changing our profile picture to match the season we are in, or waiting to post something until a certain time of day because it will get more likes. Then there is this whole culture of "getting over" someone, friend or romantic, and we make certain post public on the chance that the person you are "over" sees it and sees that you are doing fine without them. When in all reality if you were over them you would not have posted the damn thing in the first place cause it wouldn't have mattered that much.
Yeah, I know ranting again... but it's the truth. We would rather live through our fake personas online than actually live your live in real time. Take for instance a selfie, or any picture really, it take about 3 seconds to pull out your phone, find the app and take the picture. Now, my question is how long does it to post it? For me 1 minute, as long as I have good service. It takes me no more than 1 minute to pull our my phone take a picture and post on facebook. However, most people are not like me. They want to add filters, captions, stickers, then they think about it for 10 minutes cause they want the picture IN THEIR HEAD to look like the one they just took. How much time and how many more pictures could you have taken and been living in the moment if you hadn't edited your face so much that you no longer recognize it and then don't post the picture because "it wasn't good enough".
There are those who are trying to do what Emma Watson in The Circle does and show every minute of their life online for everyone to see. What we learn though is that there is no privacy in that. When you have no privacy you think it won't effect others but it will. If you can never have a private moment then no one will have a private moment with you. Your late night talks with Best Friends or Spouses will stop, your moments when you want to randomly cry. Moments when you find that loves ones have passed, or when you just want to sit in silence and do nothing without being judged will not longer be there.
Yet, this movie does something when you first watch it. It's a brilliant move really. They show you the great side to being like that. They show you the beauty or being totally transparent. The man in charge is played by Tom Hanks. He tells Watson that his son, in the movie, has Cerebral Palsy and can no do thinks like go kayaking, or climbing Mount Everest. Yet, he can feel like he is there when one of the Circlers does those things and film it. Look how much beauty and wonder can you bring to those who can't do the same things for whatever reason. Why would you want to deny someone the same beauty that you see just because your alone.
Lord let me tell you it almost had me saying that this was a good idea.
Tom Hanks. The man who has very rarely played the bad guy in his career is playing one now. However, it's brilliantly done because you don't know if he really is a bad guy or what plans he has for The Circle, you just know there is something about him that you don't fully trust. It drives me nuts that his plans were never fully uncovered in the movie. The fact that Mr. Hanks can make you want to trust him so much yet want to run at the same time is one of the rare things you have seen in Actors at any point in time during history. Most of the time you hate the bad guy so much that you love to watch him. You don't want to trust them or do anything with them but you love hating them. Mr. Hanks you don't love to hate. You just wish he wasn't evil. This is one of those movie again where Hanks is not in every single scene but he is part of the driving force behind the scene. You constantly wonder if he is watching or what he is doing when he is not there. It's really eerie but its true.
To be honest, because we don't see that much of him in his career I would love to see more movies where is the bad guy. I really don't want to see him being a mass murderer but I would like to see him in more roles like this just because he is so good playing an opposite of himself.
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