Also producing are Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and the producing duo of Walter Parkesand Laurie MacDonald.ĬAA arranged financing for the picture, which is shooting in and around Los Angeles, and is repping domestic rights along with UTA.Ĭoltrane had done some work in features, but it was the decade-spanning work in Boyhood that earned him, and the movie’s cast, raves.
Hanks, who is playing one of the founders of the company, is producing via his Playtone production banner with his producing partner Gary Goetzman. At least it's a start toward better regulation of social information both public and private.In his first movie since Boyhood, Coltrane will play Watson’s ex-boyfriend, who tries to go off the grid and under the radar of the Circle’s technology. The camera spends too much time on Mae's bland, wondering stare and meaningless conversations that would be better spent arguing the mission of the Circle. However, transparency, the film suggests, invades and makes circus-like a privacy our Constitution implies. None of this polemic completely negates the efficacy of social media and constant contact. The Circle is frequently simplistic, e.g., having records that allow automatic registration for voting but also require voting, ignores invasion of privacy and personal choice. No one could wish not to have life-saving surveillance no one could want parental transparency 24/7. The former is about saving Mae from drowning because of surveillance and the other about the world seeing her aging parents having sex. Two incidents close to the protagonist illustrate the effects of private invasion, one for survival, the other for denying the efficacy. Knowing where criminals are, such as in our sex-offender laws, is good in the case of creeps but scary when innocent citizens are the object.
The film's provocative theme about full disclosure includes the implied dialectic between the common good and privacy. The film is an attention-getting, absorbing object lesson in neglecting critical thinking. The willingness of the audience to embrace everything from the unethical farming of information to his obviously self-serving anecdotes suggests Jim-Jones cool-aid-audience imbibing. Bailey is the Steve-Jobs guru, whose weekly assembly for the campus is a model of group think and cultism, launching from the newest technology to the newest invasion of privacy. Their inclusion-full-knowledge mantra culminates in Mae's agreeing to have complete transparency, a Truman Show for our time. Mae (Emma Watson) is hired by a tech-centered firm, an amalgam of Apple, Facebook, and the CIA.
"Knowing is good, but knowing everything is better." Bailey (Tom Hanks) How much information is too much? The Circle shows in a direct and melodramatic form that the saturation point is here.
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