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RE: Government is like a cancer…
Wait, is The Circle a legit propaganda movie? I saw it, thought it was a satirical story... I pretty much just laughed at the peoples' sheep mentality through it all.
Anyways, I have hope for society -- in the long run. Short term, not so much. State's rise and fall, freedom (vice versa) with it. But those are States, society has come far. Slavery has been abolished, and peoples' acceptance of it as well. The mentality from the Viking age, that the strong should rule the weak is gone.
Society moves towards liberty.
I can see how you would see The circle as satire... these days, sometimes I have a very hard time telling the difference. I think it was supposed to be a movie about the benefits of all this hideous surveillance and how if you just have the right people in charge it's all wonderful... But you're right.. it was very confusing. It's almost as if there were 2-3 people who were in charge of the movie and who did not agree on the direction it should go. It was a confusing hot mess of a film if you ask me. I kept waiting for the main character (who was introduced to the audience as being very bright) was going to realize how awful the ideas she had were... I kept waiting for the lightbulb to go off, and for her to redeem herself. I thought when the black programmer dude spoke to her that they would eventually do something about the issue and try to turn things around. It was just plain weird.
I also really though the the main character would wake up. But after her friend was killed, in the last scene, she smiled at the damn drones! It was just straight up wired...
That is why it struck me as propaganda.... and not very good propaganda at that.