‘Circle’ doesn’t get many points for ingenuity
It isn’t easy to make a movie about technology taking over/ruining the world — particularly because it takes at least two years to get a movie from script to screen, allowing Silicon Valley time to create the very thing that futuristic films are trying to warn us about.
Such is the fate that befalls The Circle, a new drama (in theaters Friday) based on Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel. The movie stars Tom Hanks as Eamon Bailey, a Steve Jobs-esque tech CEO, and Emma Watson as Mae, a freshman employee at The Circle who gets in over her head. Only problem is, the scariest parts of The Circle are already happening. Let’s explore.