I watched the movie The Circle (2017). This movie describes about the social media and people’s privacy.
After watching this movie, I felt uncomfortable and unpleasant. Please don’t get me wrong. It does not mean this movie is not great. In my theory, a great movie makes each individual audience think hard about the movie’s main theme. In that meaning, this movie is definitely great because it has made me think about the benefits and risks from our high technology such as social media and Internet.
The main character volunteers to become a transparent by wearing a body cam and letting people to watch her daily life. If that happens to me, I would lose my hair right away from excessive stress. I need my alone time and privacy. From this reason, I respect other people’s privacy too. I never even tempted to peek my family’s private cell phones or emails. I have never felt comfortable to post my private life in any of social media. I don’t feel comfortable when people post my picture or my family’s picture without asking our permission by tagging with me.
To my surprise, when I express my feeling about social media and invading private life, many people get offended by my opinion. So, I have stopped saying any of my opinion to anybody else. Majority people don’t mind invading others’ privacy by posing pictures without their permissions.
I feel scared to watch this movie on how mob psychology can even take somebody’s life. Each individual have a high moral, but when it comes to do it with other people, the individual’s moral can easily be corrupted. We see this type of mob psychology in our daily life too.
Everything happens for reasons, and I know I cannot change the current flow in high technology. I just hope people will think about the benefits and risks from high technology and use it in smart ways. For that purpose, this movie definitely takes an important role to make us think about it seriously.
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