In the film, “The Circle,” a Big Brother-type presence is always watching. The film, adapted from Dave Eggers’ 2013 dystopian science fiction thriller, depicts a future that feels alarmingly ...

The Circle is Hollywood’s most political dystopian epic. T he Circle should have been the Dr. Strangelove of the millennium, confronting how we learned to stop worrying and love digital ...

Tom Hanks plays Eamon Bailey, the charismatic owner of the tech company, which, like the movie, is called The Circle. That’s also the title of the provocative Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel on which ...

The Circle • By Dave Eggers • Hamish Hamilton • 490 pages • ISBN: 978-0-241-14648-4 • £18.99 There's a thing that goes on when you're being recruited by a cult called ' love bombing '.

In this taut, claustrophobic corporate thriller, Eggers comes down hard on the culture of digital over-sharing, creating a very-near-future dystopia in which all that is not forbidden is required.

Ultimately, The Circle is a riff on George Orwell’s 1984 where Big Brother is the online world at large — the internet’s endless demand for validation and response, the fear of missing out ...

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The Circle aims to close that window. In the novel's most frightening scene, Circlers use drones to hunt down Mercer, a former boyfriend of Mae who, disgusted with the digital world, is hiding in ...

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Digital Dystopia: On Dave Eggers's 'The Circle' Oct 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM EDT . Eggers photographed at McSweeney's, March 2013, SF.