The Circle, Closer to Completion

Si queréis ver una buena película sobre la sobreinformación, las redes sociales, la prosocialidad feelgood empresarial, y la vigilancia universal: The Circle. Muy recomendable en particular a los hiperconectados como yo, y a los que lo estaréis dentro de nada.

La adaptación cinematográfica ha ambigüificado o suavizado un tanto la sátira de la novela de Dave Eggers en la que se basa (sátira dirigida sobre todo a Google, Facebook, Microsoft y Apple). Aquí la transparencia universal no es un mal, sino una condición de los nuevos tiempos. Como no podría ser menos, tras enterarnos de que Obama nos espiaba a través del móvil apagado.

Quizá sea que el círculo se va cerrando.


The Circle (2017),  directed by James Ponsoldt, an adaptation of Dave Eggers's novel, with a screenplay by the author and the director.

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Want to see a good film on contemporary issues? I mean on overinformation, social networking gone crazy, entrepreneurial feelgood prosociality, and universal surveillance: The Circle. I much recommend it, especially to hyperconnected citizens like myself,

The film adaptation has somewhat ambiguified or perhaps softened the satire in Dave Eggers´s novel—a venomous attack on the (suddenly somewhat sinister) benevolence of Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple. Here universal transparency is not an unmixed evil, but rather the atmospheric quality of our brave new world. Well, we have accepted it, haven´t we, once we have learnt that Obama (et al.) spied on everyone through our smartphones—even when they are disconnected.

Or maybe it´s just that the circle is closer to completion

 

The Fruits of Her Labors

 

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