‘The Circle’: Tom Hanks Takes a Swing at Liberal Groupthink at Apple and Google

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‘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.

[robroys woman]

For me it’s a mixed bag. I remember that when Siskel and Ebert were split on a film, if Ebert was the one that liked it, it meant I didn’t need to bother.

I use rotten tomatoes a lot. You sort of get a “feel” for the truthiness of the reviews to the point where it can be somewhat trusted. Based on the negative reviews and the details behind those negative reviews, my take is that this is probably a pretty bad movie.

I’m still gonna rent it though. I’ll try to remember to give my personal take after I see it.