Horror Friday: Circle (2015)

Dear Visitor,

The whole time I was sitting in my Structual Oppression I class, I thought about this movie. How quickly moral superoirity goes out the window when your life is on the line.

The film is about a group of people who wake up and find themselves trapped in a room with this weird orb in the center of the circle they're standing in. As they try to figure out how to escape, they realise the only way out is to vote for who lives and who dies. Quickly, they conspire against each other and attempt, rather poorly, to justify their decisions.

I thought this was a great study on how groups see each other. As much as we are lectured about how we should "be global citizens" and sing "We Are The World", that mentality goes out the window when your life is on the line. All of a sudden you're willing to put people into groups like "the old", "the disabled", "married", "not married", "unwed mothers", "criminals", "rich", "poor", "foreigner", etc. I especially enjoyed how the suspense just steadily escalated throughout the film.

It's a really amazing movie. It's available on Netflix so check it out before Netflix decides to get rid of it!

With Love,

M.G.