Posted on 08/07/2017 10:18:30 AM PDT by CodeToad
‘The Circle’: Tom Hanks Takes a Swing at Liberal Groupthink at Apple and Google
Tom Hanks produced the movie The Circle that takes a look at the liberal groupthink of a large Silicon Valley technology company. In any major liberal organization, such as at Apple or Google, the liberal ideology becomes groupthink: Think like they do or be banished.
The movie, The Circle, portrays Emma Watson as a new employee who is indoctrinated into the groupthink of a large fictitious company called The Circle. The company has similar appearances as a cross between Apple and Google. Tom Hanks plays the role of the CEO. Patton Oswalt plays the role of a co-founder and right hand man to Tom hanks.
The premise of the movie is that The Circle is creating technology to make all human activity ‘transparent’. Everything you do is to be recorded and viewable by anyone else. Transparency is supposed to create ‘honesty’.
Emma’s character finds she can manipulate the system and gain advantages. She manipulates situations that happen to her to become the favored employee of Tom Hanks.
The end will be a surprise that I won’t disclose or even hint at, but she does very well.
Everyone plays their parts very well, and the movie is entertaining. There are, of course, scenes where the technology is a bit unrealistic, but the technology presented is exactly what we have seen liberals and companies like Apple and Google try to create. If anything, the movie is a great exposure to liberal ideology and the groupthink demanded by liberals.
The Circle is worth watching.
Sometimes I can’t figure out Tom Hanks. He just doesn’t come across to me as the typical Hollywood liberal. I think it comes more from his wife, who is as Lefty as it gets.
This is why liberals panned it.
A google worker this week let loose with a “Manifesto” about how the PC culture at the company is hurting free speech.
I didn’t even know it was in theaters I would have gone to see it.
Thanks for taking the time to write this review. I'll give it a look.
it just so dam strange..
libs seem to intuitively subconsciously know the problems they are creating
yet can never seem to consciously acknowledge them in the real life
it’s like the thing with Trump the lefy crazy screaming about Trump
but on a subconscious level that got to have in the back of their Mind ....This guy’s creating a boom in the economy he’s right on everything he’s saying it’s just not politically correct
Trump haters are so married to their own party line they can’t face reality and Truth that Trump is right on things
I never heard of it until I saw this thread.
"Perceive" that, comrades.
Bkmrk.
Tom Hanks voted for and supported Obama publicly.
There’s series on Netflix called Black Mirror. kind of a new age Twilight Zone produced in the UK. One episode features life-corders. A camera on a contact lens and hard drive and audio in a chip behind your ear. every thing you do and say is recorded. But some people don ‘t hook into the system, so they are seen as fringe people.
The main character sees his wife smile at a guy at party. He asks about it and she says nothing. She sleeps and he rewinds her life recording and sees she’s laying they once had an affair. then she lies about the length of the air. They divorce. brings up interesting ethical questions and shows consequences of the march of technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror
I like to use rotten tomatoes because I can get some insight on a movie from both those who love it and those who hate it. But it’s hard to find anyone there - pro or amateur - who likes this movie. It looks like some even really wanted to like it.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_circle_2017/
Tom hanks is not the gullible Hollywood lib. I know him from an online health location where he is himself. He seems open minded and clearly he gets some of the lib idiocy. Though he may be too deep into that world to
Be conservative. He is more Genuine than most.
I’d like to see this.
Because he still wants to get movie roles, and stay married to his wife.
The movie was painful to watch. I suppose the ending was meant to be provocative but felt empty to me.
Tom Hanks made this movie? Hmmm.....
IIRC, Hanks came out strong in his support of a Republican candidate years ago. Of course, he was crucified and after his purgatory time, came out supporting all ideas liberal and was welcomed back into the fold. It’s troubled me that he “appears” to support these ideas but I get it...
I watched on Saturday.
Mediocre movie with a truly spooky premise.
It was definitely a hit on Silicon Valley companies and how they are used by government...and to shape government.
Obviously Ms Watson discovered this groupthink could be advantageous to HER and continued to extol its virtues til the end of the movie.
Agreed. I’d skip this movie.
It doesn’t come out against group think so much as it’s an allegory against the “always on” world and 24/7 social media. The Circle employees are all just sheep that go along with it because they’re just blindly following the hip leader. I think that’s why the movie bombed because leftists like to think they’d rebel given such obvious shenanigans going on and they’d fight to stop it. (Or so they’d think)
The ending was silly and nonsensical and, where you could’ve made a very poignant statement about technology abuses and flawed humans and ideological leadership fornutopian goals and police states - that’s also where Hanks and the leftists don’t want to go. Because that’s what inevitably happens.
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