"Perceive" that, comrades.
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
"Perceive" that, comrades.
Bkmrk.
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/
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.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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