The Circle

In keeping with a world that seems upside down these days, here's another anomaly. For me, this movie of Dave Eggers' The Circle is EXACTLY as I pictured in the book. Every single scene was as I had imagined it. Naturally, not everything in the book is included, but what is is quite faithful. Probably because Dave Eggers wrote the screenplay with director James Ponsoldt.

I am a big Eggers fan, but The Circle left me weary and unsatisfied. It's a fairly unredeemable conclusion with a fairly boring protagonist.

However, both book and movie raise vitally important themes and questions for today's technological social media invasions. Eggers' points will probably haunt you, as they did me.

I'll see Hanks in anything. It's a solid enough film, but not great. However, go see it to get yourself to THINK!