Archive for March, 2011
The Social Network
When I first heard rumours that a Facebook film was going to be made, I was a little cynical to ay the least. I mean, who would want to see a film based on a website that – if we’re really honest with ourselves – is pretty much nothing more than a colossal waste of time. But then, just as many people don’t understand Facebook, I didn’t understand what David Fincher had planned for the film, was more of a human drama about a computer geek who just wanted to be accepted.
Fincher’s master stroke of course was hiring The West Wing’s Aaron Sorkin to pen the script. I really must get hold of The West Wing on DVD and revisit it.
The opening scene of The Social Network is sheer brilliance – and sets the tone for Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar worthy portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – we see this geeky, socially inept genius destroy his relationship with his girlfriend just through a simple conversation – a conversation that you might find difficult to keep up with, such is the intensity – and then wonder what he had done wrong.
And that’s the crux for The Social Network, showing us a partially factual account of how one socially comatose individual would accidentally create the biggest social network in the world, just as a by product of trying to be popular. Read the rest of this entry »
