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Wade 2022-03-27 09:01:09

Based on Dave Eggers' novel "The Ring", I want to see the original. From the movie alone, the story is pretty bad. It's not uncommon for the theme of Internet giants to destroy the world, but who would think that everyone in the world is so stupid? All the characters are stupid and unattainable, the various plots are not enough to win the trust, the heroine performs too hard, and completely loses the goodwill of passers-by. Extreme deductions make thinking groundless, only superficially similar to reality, and therefore meaningless. Recently, I watched a bunch of bad movies (at least not so good ones), many of them were adaptations, some of them didn’t tell the story well, and the content and form were too confusing, which led to some incomprehensible problems, so I wanted to watch some original books and movies that were good (does Doctor Zhivago count as one? But I haven't even read that one, and I have never understood Faust, so let's not mention that one). The lesson this movie taught me is: Never try to add so-called "thinking" full of subjective intentions to the bloody plot. The result of this is very shallow and naive, and this is almost a definition of fast food literature and art. Don't make this mistake. As for the small scene... There is nothing to say on the whole, no talent and no splendor. At the end, Mei completes the CEO, mooring alone on the lake, and two cameras follow her to shoot her. In the end, the camera images are merged into many, many pictures, like a monitor; the end of "Belko Experiment" is also when the protagonist kills the experimental staff and stands still. Before the empty factory area, the final screen merged into the surveillance footage of many, many simultaneous killings. This is a bit of a fancy place.

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  • Gabriel 2022-04-23 07:02:30

    It's a mediocre work, the screenwriter is not good, and the lines are almost at the level of domestic TV dramas. It's too literal and disappointing. It is a little interesting: Bailey interviewed Mae at the press conference, and the two pieced together Guang Zhengwei who plundered all privacy. This scenario can indeed be brought into reality.

  • Bernadette 2022-04-20 09:01:47

    The subject matter is interesting. It’s hard to say whether the press conferences are satirizing Jobs and Apple. The privacy probe may be alluding to Microsoft, but the way of expression is very mediocre and lacks the “sense of technology” that it should have. The so-called sharing privacy seems to be no different from doing live broadcasts. , can not stimulate the curiosity of the audience at all, all the fear caused by the pervasive peeping needs to be filled by the audience's own brain, the effect of the screen is not shocking enough, how can it arouse deep thinking

The Circle quotes

  • Eamon Bailey: I like the words 'One Step Further.' It's how the company was built.

  • Mae: I should, um, get going, actually - for dinner. But, um, we should make a plan. I'll send you a text.

    Mercer: Or we could do that now since we're both here.

    Mae: What?

    Mercer: Nothing...