The Circle 2017
- Director: James Pansoldt
- Based on the novel: no
- Cast: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Bill Paxton, Ellar Coltrane, Karen Gillan, Glenne Headly
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Emma Watson – The Perks of Being a Wallflower, My Week with Marilyn, Harry Potter
- Tom Hanks – Cloud Atlas, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Catch Me If You Can, The Road to Perdition, Cast Away, The Green Mile, You’ve Got Mail, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Sleepless in Seattle, A League of Their Own, Joe and the Volcano, Punchline
- John Boyega – Star Wars the Force Awakens/The Last Jedi, Attack the Block
- Bill Paxton – Edge of Tomorrow, A Simple Plan, Titanic, Twister, Aliens, Streets of Fire
- Karen Gillan – Doctor Who
- Glenne Headly – The Namesake, Dick Tracy
- Why? Emma Watson
- Seen: 8 October 2021.
Mae (Watson) gets a job with the Circle,
a powerful IT company, very high tech. Eamon (Hanks) is the adored owner of the
Circle. He enthusiastically, almost evangelistically, promotes his technical
developments as the saviours of democracy in the battle against tyrants and
dictators. Mae’s friend Annie (Gillan) is hysterically supportive of the
Circle, as are all the other 20-somethings who work there. Mae is too, at
first. But it doesn’t take her long to realise that the Circle aims to take
over her life, everyone’s lives 24-7. Everything.
The road to hell and all that. It could
be clichéd but in fact it just avoids it and is quite thought-provoking. I
always like Emma Watson and Tom Hanks is a convincing good guy/villain. The
others are good too.
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