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- As "The Circle" envisions it, technology's dystopian near-future is already here. The movie, which opened Friday in the US, imagines a world where the mightiest tech company cajoles us to willingly abandon privacy.
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Apr 26, 2017 · “The Circle,” based on Dave Eggers novel, is as chilling as the most frightening horror movie. Yet the world it depicts is practically our world, just a tiny leap into the near future.
Apr 27, 2017 · “The Circle,” based on Dave Eggers’ novel, is as chilling as the most frightening horror movie. Yet the world it depicts is practically our world, just a tiny leap into the near future.
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Real-life tech references in the movie aren't meant as veiled accusations. Hanks' Eamon Bailey, for example, is the company's "public-facing visionary." Earlier this week, Hanks joked with Twitter CEO Jack Dorseyabout playing a diabolical tech genius with a beard. "I played you! I'm not in as good of shape, I didn't exercise or eat as well, but I p...
Other actors in the film drew from specific points of reference. Actress Karen Gillan used reports about Amazon to better understand her character, Annie. A longtime friend of Mae, Annie is part of the Circle's executive elite, delivering inhuman productivity. To get inside Annie's head, Gillan relied on a New York Times 2015 expose about Amazon, s...
To our society's credit, when abuse by tech giants comes to light, we generally respond with outrage rather than the indifference of "The Circle." But at the premiere during an audience Q&A, Hanks related his own lesson from the film, while satirizing how we can mock the behavior of movie characters only to live out the same actions ourselves. "Whe...
Apr 28, 2017 · The Circle, the starkly dystopian tech company at the center of Dave Eggers’s eponymous 2013 novel, is constantly described as beautiful: “The campus was vast and rambling, wild with Pacific...
May 2, 2017 · Hanks’s character, the head of a sinister tech company, is introducing an army of tiny cameras that will be placed all over the world. Omniscience is just a click away. This scene is meant to be...
Dec 6, 2016 · Like that series, "The Circle" seems to probe the whole "has technology run amok?" question that is part of our modern lives. "The Circle" opens in theaters April 28.
Apr 28, 2017 · The film, based on the book by Dave Eggers, presents a dystopian view of where Silicon Valley is taking the world and captures the tech industry's failure to acknowledge the downside of its...
