We've watched “The
Circle”, a cyber-related movie, starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks.
The movie is really actual, with a theme, frequently discussed in
social networks, and with an interesting ending. I don't want to
share spoiling details here =) but, for me, personally, an ordinary &
boring ending is when a cyber system is being destroyed, not giving
any other way of social interactions. What “The Matrix” offers as
an alternative way? The same military-based system that shows who
exactly has created the matrix, that its roots are actually in our
crooked souls. But it's different in “The Cirlce”. This film
gives us a really great scene, open to different points of view. Perhaps, exactly this open ending and still unsolved conflict became the reason for low rate and low back-office of this film. There are still lots of talks about weaknesses of different elements of the story, but I loved this climax scene - it was really great and unique for Hollywood movies.
The theme itself is also hot – how social networks use our personal data. It is
given in a very vivid form here, aching with its uncertainty in actions
and lines of the lead (Emma Watson). Perhaps, as ever, the truth is
somewhere in a balance between transparency and privacy. The question
is who determines this balance, this limit... Who's in charge? How easily it is to
cross the line, beyond which the freedom turns into its opposite —
total control...
I have heard about so-called narrow-targeted movies (for Spanish-speaking audience and for India), which could be a base for this film in a commercial sense - but they are not available in my country. I'm sure the audience in totalitarian countries like Russia or Iran, where social networks are usually associated with freedom and true democracy, movies of that kind play a special social awareness role. I'm very thankful to all the team involved into this project. They've done a great social job despite the box-office and possible intentions.
