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.
There have been some reports that Hanks may seek public office. I’d say this is one of likely more Sister Souljah moments to position Hanks as something less than a Hollywood leftist.
Thanks for the review.
I just added it to my “to see” list.
Oh no...a flaming liberal demoncrap throws a rock in the lib house...
We will, control the vertical. We will control the horizontal. outer Limits. love it.
Yes, and I think Hanks has vacationed with the Obamas :(
I wonder if he is trying to position himself for a 2020 run—as per MIchael Moore’s suggestion of running him for Pres...
So he comes off as more centrist rather than a radical progressive liberal...until elected of course...
Tom Hanks is as liberal as they come. Don’t give him any credit at all. He’s a full blown lefty.
I saw it on Kodi I kept expecting it to take the left turn that I thought it was coming but was pleasantly surprised at the ending.
Same here. I was waiting on a lefty turn but it didn’t.
“But it’s hard to find anyone there - pro or amateur - who likes this movie. “
Of course not. Liberals HATE looking in the mirror. They hate being held accountable. They are like little petulant children.
A-oogle?
It sounds like the author's projecting a little and taking every criticism of Silicon Valley as a critique of liberalism.
That would be like taking any criticism here of somebody conservative as an assertion of liberal or leftist views.
But Aaron Sorkin, say, could be scathing about Zuckerberg, without changing his political point of view.
“author’s projecting a little and taking every criticism of Silicon Valley as a critique of liberalism. “
Not at all. The movie made light of liberalism and its groupthink while it also made fun of the Silicon Valley lifestyle. That lifestyle is a young adult view that everyone needs to be best friends and hang out together; the liberal utopian dream of a social security baby-blanket.
(P.S. I am the author, so I know)
I feel the same way about him. He’s seems , I dunno... maybe in the mold of a “Kennedy’’’ type liberal with perhaps a conservative leaning such as this and then he’ll swing back the other way and say something stupidly liberal.
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Here in the Bay Area, we have the real thing all around us; what do we need with a movie?
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The rest of us don’t live there. I sure as Hell wouldn’t live there.
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Highest housing demand in the country.
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Lousiest place to live. There’s just enough liberal idiots that want to live there to keep demand high, but demand is high in many places.
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I’m not saying there aren’t some drawbacks (Moonbeam, idiotic legislature, etc.) but we have the best weather, geography, recreational features, and a dozen other biggies.
The loons are a source of amusement and income.
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Of course not. Liberals HATE looking in the mirror.
“when both the pros AND the amateurs “
They hated Star Wars, too. I don’t let others tell me which movies are good. They are rarely correct.
I loved Idiocracy, but it was a look into the mirror so it got terrible reviews by everyone in the movie industry.
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