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‘The Social Network’ review: Facebook movie is great all around
Published: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 8:03 AM Updated: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 12:47 PM
By Stephen Whitty/The Star-Ledger
It is the very first scene of “The Social Network” — and anti-hero Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend is already breaking up with him.
It is not, she hastens to say, because he’s a nerd. He is, of course – an absolute unreconstructed one. But that’s not it.
“Listen. You’re going to be successful and rich, but you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a geek,” she says.
“And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true.
“It’ll be because you’re an asshole.”
It’s a great, perfectly honed scene, and credit it and its rapid-fire dialogue to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
But it also goes to the heart of the movie’s irony — that the boy genius whose Facebook basically invented a new way to connect to people is cluelessly disconnected from everyone.
Movie Review
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
The Social Network (PG-13) Columbia (120 min.)Directed by David Fincher. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield. Opens October 1 in New Jersey.
Ratings note: The film contains strong language, sexual situations and drug use.
Stephen Whitty’s review: FOUR STARS
That, it should be emphasized, is Sorkin’s key to the “drama” of Mark Zuckerberg. Is it the “truth” of Mark Zuckerberg? Who knows? Like “The Queen,” “The Social Network” is one of those movies that cares more about whether something “feels” real than whether it is.
But it is a fact that Zuckerberg, a genuine prodigy, basically invented the first truly new form of communication since the telephone. And that arguments over just how much of it he did on his own have led to years of painful lawsuits.
And that all of that unfolds here like some sort of classic tragedy, updated to the email age — “Richard III” in a hoodie and flipflops, “King Lear” on Red Bull and Twizzlers.
Like all tragedies, the play’s the thing — although auteur-minded critics are already falling over director David Fincher. That’s to be expected. Fincher is a natural filmmaker. His images (see “Se7en,” “Alien 3”) are rich with shadow. His soundtracks (“Zodiac”) are maps of menace.
He is in command here, too. The soundscape of “The Social Network” is full of rhythm and foreboding (Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails worked on the score). A regatta is marked by a curious depth-of-focus trick that turns everything but crucial elements into a blur.
But because Fincher isn’t a writer — or even a director who consistently works with the same writers — his results are erratic. When he’s starting with a great script, as in “Fight Club,” it’s a great movie. When he’s starting with a “Forrest Gump” retrea
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