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Plain awesome. Fincher nailed it :Dsureup
Good, but not great. 7/10vishnu
brilliant!! just brilliant!!Atreides
Good movie. It's an excellent time portrait as it is an universal theme (young people trying tot impress).Muthukumaran
Jus came back from this movie. Liked it. But have seen better and even gr8 ones from Fincher. Though the whole movie had this documentary appeal the kick-ass script held the whole movie. But over 8 rating seems like a hooey.semmel
@golephish: I liked the movie too, but I think wwhat Ondskap meant was that he was afraid it'd be just an imitation of the movie. as was I.this is quite funny actually when you think of the quote at the beginning of pirates of the silicon valley: Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Rohit
Brilliant. I agree with jorislcl. I didnt want it to endOndskap
As some other people have mentioned; the rowing scene was fantastic. Great movie, was afraid it was gonna be like "Pirates of the silicon valley"Joris B.
I wouldn't have minded if the movie had been an hour longer or so.St. Gloede
Best film of the year this far.CafeAmericain
Wow..jerichoholic
One of the best movies I have seen.StigAnder
I liked this film a lot, but I have to say that the ending was downright bad in comparison to the rest of the movie. Not that think out a better one. Facebook is never finished.jerichoholic
Seeing it today in a theater. I can't wait.Scratch47
PROS: The editing and script is put together in that Sorkin fashion - lines edging over each other with razor sharp self assurance and a curious graceful composition.The dialogue is razor sharp and super fast in a way that respects my intelligence. It also fleshes out the characters to an insane, more-real-than-real way, throwing off slight details both that infer a universe of possibility and gradually build to the inevitable finale even as it detaches itself from the moral implications. I was engrossed in 10 minutes, and that's rare for a drama and me. It's power is that it picks up where our lives lead off, and leads off with the question, 'ok, so what if you WERE at the top, kiddo?' and just goes further down that rabbit hole. Adults are almost a moot point here, often disdained. They control the money here, but for what it's worth, the geek inherits the Earth here, Sunset Boulevard-style. This IS the face of the future I have heard my parents and other old fucks talk about. Subtle touches of disrespect (Mark's wearing jeans to his hearing) show where the power truly is. These are the brightest minds of my generation, entrenched in social politics, which we all know runs the world. The relatively slow and stuffy traditions of Harvard seems very very boring, dead even, in comparison to the way the social mechanics and dialogue play out and accelerate. There is enough quality content here to fill 3 normal films.
The first scene presents two complete characters, two complete people, from two different worlds at odds. Jesse Eisenberg is lethal - portraying a smart, cold, alien, but not illogical, mechanical, verbally atonal sociopath who screws over EVERYONE, not deliberately, but out of an almost blissfully detached state borne out of the physically detached, apathetic student culture. It never occurs to him that he might be doing something wrong, even as he dispatches lethal, brutally honest truths to his accusers in court. The irony here is that he is still driven by the same needs as the rest of us mortals, even as he has about as much knowledge to deal with them as an alien might have on first contact to our race, or on dealing with a new emotion chip. He almost wants to be normal but is too good at being snide and rudely edging people out of the social order - which he does with astonishing rude accuracy towards his legal opposition at least twice. Once Justin Timberlake's smooth, kinda slimy egomaniac Shawn Parker comes into play at the halfway point (time has just FLOWN at this point) Zuckerberg's obnoxious grandeur takes off (walking around in a dressing gown, almost a la Howard Hughes). That's when peoples identities start disintegrating into information technology, personalities become ideas to be bought and sold. The women, bar Erica, seem almost incidental, though there's no emphasis on notions of masculinity so much as Machiavelli.
The subsequent scenes after that first dinner scene.have the momentum of a second-act piece, starting with a montage of Facemash being distributed set against a party (like a programming rockstar, it sets up that the two are about to become one and the same through the social calendar of Facebook, and that the power balance is about to shift, Revenge of the Nerds style).
. In fact, the pacing perfectly follows, not a thing feels wasted. There's a sense of energy being set up from the first frame. Aside from being very smart, this film is a perfect microcosm of the society of my 'modern' generation and all the associated interests, and thats partly why you are sucked in - this film deals with everyone's favourite topic, value. In short, it's hip, even as it skewers the very hypocrisy of hipness and the zero-sum game of, well, social game theory: that if 600+million people are willing to have their most intimate relationships filtered through a Harvard sociopath's vision of 'college online', replete with ninjas, farm animals, short lived media campaigns, and political passivity, that says a lot about the maturity level of most of the planet, now doesn't it? This is a world where people are so disconnected, they sue each other so they can have lawsuits as excuses to agree on a consensus reality. For a film about communication technology, none of them know how to talk to each other.
And oh yeah, the music is a great industrial paranoid modern squeak. Jewish Caribbean night is TERRIFIC. As a nerd, that hacking scene was great ("decrypting SSL code, intercepting traffic over a secure DSL within 10 minutes and drinking a shot every 10th line of code, every 3 minutes, and every time a pop-up comes up.) It feels like what all your John Hughes, teen drama fantasies would be if they could ever be real in this world: ie, not good. The scenes in California feel less like the American Dream and more Project Mayhem - crazed bitch/little girl sets a bin on fire, how precise.
CONS:...none?
OVERALL: I never would have guessed, given the subject matter, that this is a superb, superb film that stands with 127 Hours as the best of the year. Almost a cautionary, Citizen Kane-esque tale of what happens when the technorati by various means, 'chase the dragon' and lose their soul. There's a lot here that's so good, it gets you riled up like only the drama, potential, and hormones of school can. A+
That said: read this. http://www.businessinsider.com/is-the-social-network-true-2010-10#
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