Circle (2015)

[Khev]

Fascinating film! If you've got Netflix you'll probably see it pop up from time to time and I say it's one worth checking out. It's about 50 people from all walks of life who wake up standing on little red circles in a room with everyone facing a little black dome in the center that kills someone with an electric shock every two minutes. The people in the room have to decide with a hand gesture vote who dies each round but no one can see who anyone else votes for. The movie is filmed completely in real time.

This film had surprisingly good unknown actors and it does a great job of presenting how a wide range of people would respond to such a situation. The bargaining, lying, subtle manipulation, acts of nobility, logic, deductive reasoning, common sense, it's all there and I'd say that there's a very good chance of whatever type of person you are being represented by one or more of the characters in the room. I constantly found myself imagining what I'd be saying to the group each and every round and couldn't help but hope that I'd be one of the good guys who took one for the team.

All you have to do is watch it for five or ten minutes and you'll know if this is a film you'll want to stick with to the bitter end. I did and found it to be a heck of an experience.

 

[WWEJedi]

Sounds interesting, will probably watch.

Although I'm not sure why you would sacrifice yourself Guess it depends on the situation.

 

[Mr. Green]

Meh, no interest. No Netflix anyway.

 

[EVILFACE]

It was decent flick. Stereotypes those that are more or less deserving.

 

[cmiller99]

Sounds good. I don't have Netflix though...

 

[bboy]

man this was such a bad movie!! a friend told me to watch it cause he thought it was "my type of movie", I think I posted a review in the review thread a while back. The whole thing seemed very amateur and forced idk how to describe it. The stereotyping thing was so eyerollingly predictable. I do generally get a kick out of "everyone trapped in a room" movies, but this was stripped down to the most basic aspects of it. Although I do love Rita from dexter!

 

[fosing]

i cant wait for the sequel....

square (2017)

 

[RIDDICK]

And the trilogy will be closed with "Squiggly" (2019).

 

[fosing]

And the trilogy will be closed with "Squiggly" (2019).

third and last installment is triangle (2019).

 

[RIDDICK]

That's too logical for modern Hollywood.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Saw this awhile back and thought it was a good movie.

 

[Khev]

Saw this awhile back and thought it was a good movie.

Yeah, I mean clearly it isn't a movie where you watch it go "Awesome! 8/10! Please HT pick up the license!" But I loved that it was different and that the "premise" was a pervasive and ongoing dilemma for almost every single minute of its run time.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Yeah, I mean clearly it isn't a movie where you watch it go "Awesome! 8/10! Please HT pick up the license!" But I loved that it was different and that the "premise" was a pervasive and ongoing dilemma for almost every single minute of its run time.

 

[Devil_666]

The people who wrote this movie have a thread on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3118452/board/nest/249704471

Some interesting info in there.

 

[Khev]

Awesome link, Devil, thanks for posting! Imagine how cool it would be to have those types of discussions with every filmmaker.