essentially the circle system could become the neutral knights of justice that lelouch in code geass made use of. and i get that lelouch initially made the system just to benefit from it, and use it to achieve his own goals - but weren't his goals good for humanity in the end? didn't the black knights free themselves from his influence to become REAL neutral allies of justice?
of course the problem is always with good leadership, or the lack of it. any terrible system could hobble along and work all right with a good leader, but it only takes one corrupt leader to undermine a really great system. so the circle would NEED a leader of appropriate calibre - and that's hard to find and hard to ensure, but yet again, with all that sharing and oversharing, all that transparency, it wouldn't be nearly as hard as it is now.
with a good panel of leaders, the circle could become global contractors, the independent system that maintains democracy and human rights, like the U.N. but better.
(also on the code geass note, technology could possibly bring us to the point where there are no longer any individuals, just like geass. but i think we all underestimate how duplicitous humans are.)
i mean, there are obvious problems, but i think those problems come when enthusiastic people get together without the filters. the government is usually pretty good at taking care of everyone and having fail-safes, but that's because it's literally their job to think of everyone. enthusiastic people tend not to say, "hey, let's delay this awesome thing for a year while we think about every eventuality and everything that could go wrong". that's why anyone, any company aiming to have this kind of role NEEDS to partner with something bureaucratic, something slow and plodding, something with a lot of different kinds of people involved.
and the movie also highlighted some traits of humanity:
- old people resist change
- sharing is inevitable
we all know the first one, but about the second point - think about 50 years ago versus now, how much our connections and communications have changed. it's almost unimaginable, so it's pretty obvious that what's going to happen 50 years in the future will be unimaginable for us now.
instead of resisting change until change finds some other way to surprise us, i see no reason why we shouldn't prepare for it. "the future won't wait". seriously. i've never understood why we shouldn't just make the future we want, instead of resisting it.
the thing is, whatever the circle is saying, whatever it portrays, it's not even that revolutionary. we've got the oversharing down, we've got the "why don't you have instagram??", and the corporate selling your soul, or judging people for selling your soul, or thinking you're better for not using the internet or whatever.
there's nothing new in the circle. it's just stylised.
and i'm not advocating for no secrets, just a lot fewer of them. a system like the circle could do a lot of good.
and side note: the circle is seriously non-violent. the whole movie has next to zero violence in it, which i think is such an important thing to note. even when the corrupt leaders are exposed, they're frozen by the eyes on them. they don't lash out in anger or anything. and i honestly believe the next step of societal evolution is decreased violence.
anyway tl;dr: even if the circle was meant as a cautionary tale against the technological future we're heading for, i already agreed with most of the content before even watching it. i actually always wanted that utopia-dystopia future.
tl;dr movie review: emotionally bland but visually stunning. the message was as appropriately conveyed as a simple movie could. actually does get you pretty hyped up. 8/10 would watch again.
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