Director Aaron Hann & Mario Miscione
Starring Allegra Masters, Aimee McKay, Ashley Key
Rated M
Score 5/6

Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live.

This is a kind of interesting movie and a rather interesting choice as a movie and very odd choice for the fourth movie for the Unfestival (because I actually kind of liked this one, so I guess the Unfestival director took pitty on me. I’d also like it to be known I am not the person who has been choosing the movies that are part of the Unfestival). For those of you who might be interested Circle was filmed over the course of 10 days.

The concept for Circle was very interesting and the directors should be congratulated for that they managed to pull off in such a short amount of shooting time. I was reminded of movies such as Breathing Room and The Human Race. It was brilliant move by the directors to cast the movie with relatively unknown actors, of the actors cast in this movie I was only kind of familiar with Julie Benz’s work. Casting this movie with too many actors with too much of a profile would have spoilt the tension of the movie.

I know its an odd thing to say here but at various occasions throughout the movie I found myself trying to remember from a character from Yes Minister Sir Humphrey Appleby where he talked about the public and timing of elections. From what I have read about Circle its plot was supposed to have been inspired 12 Angry Men so I suppose if I was ever going to eloquent in my writing I could borrow a phrase and say along the lines of that Circle is the type of movie that looks at a wide range of social issues and because human existence is nasty, brutish and short and when push comes to shove there people who are going to lookout for themselves. Or if you prefer I can quote Dr Cox from the American Sitcom Scrubs and say that Circle is the kind of movie that suggests that people are bastard coated bastards with a bastard filling.