Circle (2015) --My take on the movie with spoilers!

 PLOT SUMMARY: 50 Strangers awaken to find themselves in a strange room. They soon discover they must choose who gets to live and who doesn't.

As kids, we are taught to distinguish between right and wrong. We learn that helping other is good. We learn to respect elders. We learn that kids shouldn't be harmed. We learn to value human life.

Then we grow up, face the world,  go through difficulties and suddenly our perspective changes. Yes, it is wrong to harm others but ethics go for a toss when you stand to benefit from something bad that happens to someone else.

CIRCLE Movie Plot

Fifty people stand in a circle. A woman wakes up and freaks out when she finds herself standing in a glowing circle. She tries to step out, and hears a buzzer. She tries to touch someone and buzzed again.

A man speaks to her, telling her to stand still as any movement can cause her to be electrocuted. The others wake up and panic. Nobody knows why they are in a dark room with red and black lights.

Suddenly, a man from the circle is electrocuted. His arm is lifted, a circle glows in his hand and he's dragged away by an invisible force.

Two minutes later, it happens again with someone else.

The unwilling participants of this sick game realize that they have unknowingly voted for people to be eliminated. They understand that a movement of their hand is causing them to choose who gets to die.

The people are elated. They have been given the power to choose who gets to live and who gets to die.

That power goes to their heads. Soon enough arguments run rife, no one is spared from taunts, everyone is supposed to prove they should get to lose and not voted out.

The elderly are the first ones to go. They are going to die soon anyway so why not them. The senior citizens are aghast but helpless and whimper as they are taken out one by one.

There is a cop, a criminal who beat his girlfriend for fun, an army guy, a cancer survivor and teens. No one is spared.

A husband speaks up for his wife and requests everyone to choose him but to spare his wife. Everyone goes awww and spares the couple.

It takes a while for everyone to understand the game. They can't vote for themselves. A tie is possible. If they don't choose then the machine chooses for them.

The participants realize there is no way out of this but to vote. Prejudices surface.

The cancer survivor is told her cancer mat return and she needs to go. People are asked about their jobs and if it in any way helps the world. A woman who is married to another woman has sinned and must go. People of color need to go.

Of course not everyone voices their prejudice. The one who does is voted out.

The participants realize it may come down to a pregnant woman and a little girl. They want to spare them but there are some who believe it is pointless. After all, in the end, one of them has to vote the other out. There can be only one winner.

So the long-haired man takes the initiative to build groups. He thinks it is better to get rid of the two now. The little girl keeps getting tied with the others and they keep stepping out of the circle to spare her.

The little girl wails and wails.

Then there's a man who says nothing at all and has so far made it to the end. He is mute but the others think he is volunteering to be let go. They don't confirm that with him before he's voted out.

Still others keep bickering and piss off so many people that they are voted out.

Turns out the heartwarming speech the man had given to spare his wife wasn't actually married to her. They lied to everyone to gain sympathy. Both of them are eliminated in different rounds.

The army man is thanked for his service but he wanted to spare the pregnant woman and child, so off he goes. Teens, mothers, people with different race sexual preferences and those who hold back jobs are all voted out.

It all comes down to a guy in a black shirt, Eric, and the pregnant woman and little girl.

CIRCLE Ending Explained.

Eric gives a noble speech about how he would make the sacrifice for the pregnant woman because she still has life within her. Eric manages to convince the little girl to let go because there is a baby inside another woman. The girl wails and agrees to make the sacrifice.

The countdown begins, Eric tells the girl he will walk out of the circle with her so that she isn't alone. He screams to step out while at the same time, votes for the pregnant woman.

The pregnant woman and the little girl and electrocuted and dead.

Eric gives his villainous smile before realizing the baby has a vote too. But the baby is still in the belly and cannot vote so Eric does it for him.

When he wakes up, he's outside the room and in a place with low-grade CGI. There are rotating spaceships above him and other survivors as well.

He joins a group of pregnant women and children and looks up at the spaceship. Clearly, all the survivors will now have to play again.

Eric will have to use his cunning once again.

The Circle is an engaging movie and throws light on morals that we all believe we have only for it to go for a toss when faced with a choice where our life is on the line.

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