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Synopsis: In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Every two minutes, one of them must die... Executed by an electrical pulse generated from a source within the chamber. At first the attacks seem random, but, soon the strangers realize that they, as a group, have the power to decide who will be the next to be killed: by the power of the vote. Mob mentality at its finest hour. A chance to control the machine. How will they choose who deserves to die? What happens when there's only one person left? "Circle" is a film about humanity. How we value one another and how people react when they are forced to make decisions under the worst possible circumstances. It's a film that speaks to the very core of what makes us human - Who we are, what we believe and ultimately, the lengths we will go to in which to save ourselves.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Production: Taggart Productions
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
NOT RATED
Year:
2015
87 min
Website
3,461 Views


- There he is. See?

These a**holes...

man, these a**holes never learn.

She shouldn't have

f***ed around on me, man!

Like that makes it okay

to beat the sh*t out of her.

Oh, yeah?

What are you gonna do, man?

You gonna shoot me? Huh, pig?!

I don't think I need to.

Recognize anyone else?

No, I don't think so.

Yeah, anybody else?

Unpaid parking tickets?

- What if that's important?

- Huh?

Like, maybe

We're supposed to figure out

who's good and who's bad.

The world doesn't work

that way, sweetheart.

That's right.

Too much gray area.

But maybe that's

what they want us to do...

kill off certain people.

And, like,

oh, my God, who's gonna decide?

You?

No, not me.

All of us... as a group.

Kind of

what We're doing already?

Kind of not stopping

this whole thing at all?

We don't know that. It might.

There has to be a reason

behind all of this, right?

God, sweetheart.

Not every shitty thing

that happens in this world

has to have a reason behind it.

Maybe they just want to f***ing

watch us kill each other.

Well, we should

at least consider it.

Consider what?

What she means is...

who deserves to live?

Okay.

Based on what?

Based on everything.

Morals and values,

what you have

or haven't done in life.

I think we need

to put it all out there.

Yeah, and we've got

plenty of time standing around

debating everybody's character.

Well, We're here

to do something.

It's to die.

H-hey, um...

I got an idea.

How about we, uh...

How about we kill

all the black people next, yeah?

What are you talking about?

Don't play the race card, man.

This is all just f***ing chance.

Yeah? Right.

That's why most of us are dead,

right?

It's every man

for himself in here.

Yeah, you need to shut up

with this racism stuff, okay?

Nobody gives a sh*t around here.

I give a sh*t around here.

Look, I'm just saying.

I'm not f***ing next, all right?

Y'all done reached

your minority quota.

That's fair.

This guy... man, do you see

anything fair going on in here?!

This is the exact

f***ing opposite of fair!

Okay.

We'll see.

Don't look at me, man.

You started this sh*t.

Come on, man.

You know I'm right, brah.

Think about it.

They'll kill

each and every one of us off

until There's none of us left.

Come on, man.

There's plenty of white people

that are dead, too.

Come on, man, There's

plenty more still alive, too.

What exactly are you trying

to do with this?

Make yourself a target?

Because that's

exactly what You're doing.

Yeah. Real smart.

You don't see me

counting asians.

Well, maybe you should try.

Don't fall

for this racism bullshit.

He's just trying

to save his own ass.

You damn right,

you uptight a**hole.

- So what?

- So what?

You feel like you

deserve a free pass

because You're f***ing black?

Nobody cares.

Exactly. Nobody gives a sh*t.

I ain't talking

to your stupid ass.

I'm trying to help you, bro!

You shut the f*** up,

talking to me, man.

It's not gonna

f***ing help you here.

Right.

'Cause it usually helps me

out there, right?

Oh, here we go.

Let's all feel bad

for the black guy.

'Cause he had to struggle

so much more than we did.

All right.

Just drop it.

Like you people don't get

enough help.

What the f*** you just say?

You guys are all the same.

You run around.

You just want people

to hand you things

like you f***ing earned it.

That's what wrong

with this country now...

socialist bullshit.

What?

You want some reparations, too?

I mean, Jesus Christ.

Give me a f***ing break

around he...

I think we need to keep

our personal prejudices

out of this.

It's not helping the situation.

Yeah, they don't matter

anymore.

No, no, hell no.

They absolutely matter!

What you mean?

I'm not gonna die

so some racist can live.

Everything...

every single thing needs

to be out there on the table.

Yeah, so if we could have

all the racists step forward,

that'd great.

Look... whatever

your race, ethnicity,

nationality is,

it's not important.

What's important is

that, collectively,

we figure out how to stop this.

We're on the same team here.

Oh, are we, though?

We all want to live, don't we?

Yeah.

So let's work together.

We Can't keep turning

against each other.

Yeah, that's

what they want us to do.

I think she's right.

That's what this is about.

They want us to play

their little game.

Maybe they're watching

us right now.

- Studying us.

- Let's not give them

- what they want.

- Exactly.

Any ideas?

What happens if we force a tie?

- We tried that.

- No.

We tried not voting at all.

There'd be more time

between rounds.

Hey, everybody.

Vote for yourself.

Hhow do we do that?

You Can't vote for yourself.

It doesn't let us.

All right, then, everybody vote

for the person

to your right, then.

The living person.

Right, don't vote

for the empty spaces.

If we do it right, we should

all get exactly one vote.

8, 7, 5, 4...

3, 2, 1.

No!

- The f***?

- Damn it!

- It didn't work.

- Ohh!

- What happened?

- We screwed up.

- All right, let's try it again.

- It won't work!

They thought of everything!

Did you vote for the person

to your right or your left?

I did right. This way.

Well, somebody messed it up.

Somebody just made a mistake.

Okay, look,

we have to try this again.

All right.

Very carefully this time,

everybody vote for the arrow

that points to the person

on your right.

Got it?

Sweetie, you see the arrow?

This arrow... You're gonna

pick that arrow, okay?

Okay.

No, We're all gonna be okay.

I promise, okay?

- Come on!

- No!

It's a tie.

Everyone vote again!

What the f*** just happened?

- They tied.

- How?

We all got the same number

of votes, right?

No, we didn't.

How do you know?

- 'Cause I voted for him.

- What? What are you...

why Would you do that?

Because he voted

for the pregnant girl.

I saw him.

If I didn't vote him,

she'd be dead.

- You sure?

- Yes.

Why Would he do that?

Look...

We all know that we Can't

vote for ourselves, right?

Well... What do you think happens

when we get down

to the last person left?

One of us gets to live.

It's a game.

It's a process of elimination.

The last man standing gets

to walk out of here alive.

Or woman.

Why Would they do that?

I don't know,

but between the kid

and the pregnant girl,

I'm sure that guy figured

it's most likely gonna

come down to one of them

in the end.

If we get rid of them,

we'll all have a better chance.

You know what? If he's right,

and one of us do get

to walk out of here,

it should be one of them.

Why's that?

'Cause it's common sense.

People, come on.

Things are different in here.

Women and children first...

I'm sorry.

But that sh*t

doesn't matter anymore.

Look at the pregnant woman.

She counts as two people.

One of them's gonna die

eventually, so...

Which one?

It's okay. It's okay.

It's gonna be okay.

No! No!

No!

Oh, come on, come on, come on!

Don't do anything!

They'll both die.

We have to know what happens.

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