<em>The Circle</em> Is a Laughable Tech Thriller
James Ponsoldt’s new film, based on a novel by Dave Eggers, sees Emma Watson join a Facebook-like company with sinister intentions.
In 1995, a perfect piece of techno-alarmism was released in theaters, and America was never the same again. starring Sandra Bullock, predicted a world where your entire identity could be erased and re-written online, where hackers could create online backdoors into all of America’s security agencies, where you could use a website to have a pizza delivered to your door. The film was, at the time, dismissed as an absurd work of paranoia; these days, its prophecies sound extremely ho-hum. Sure, people now use Seamless
