The
creation of Facebook.
This movie inexplicably
tops a lot of those infamous best movie listings for last year. It’s certainly
well made, from David Fincher we expect nothing less, and fairly well written
as far as dialogues go.
It’s just
so very inconsistent.
Mark
Zuckerberg, played very well by Jesse Eisenberg, is portrayed as some kind of
stereotypical super nerd. I imagine that for a lot of people who had only
access to IT geekdom trough movies or maybe trough the t shirt wearing guy who
comes to fix their computer this was like a “secret look” into the realities of
that world. An exciting insight into how they really behave and what they
think.
Now I don’t
want to say that I’m some kind of nerd expert, how could you get such a title
by the way, but I’m a geek enough to know that most of the stuff that goes there
is just fiction. Fiction that it’s not only badly researched, it’s
inconsistent.
Zuckerberg
in this movie is some kind of human robot hybrid, with just a rudimentary
understanding of how human relationship work, that does a lot of bad stuff for
no apparent reason. Or, if we have to point a reason, because he is a nerd and
nerds behave badly with other people.
Having said
that the movie is not really that bad. There is some interesting stuff about
what is the meaning of creating something and to pros and cons of selling out.
There are some interesting characters and all the actors do a very good job,
most of all Eisenberg himself. It’s also very well shot, with a serrated
editing that keeps the rhythm up for the whole movie.
Conclusion:
An interesting drama that ultimately fails to address its subject matter but it’s
still worth it trough the sheer force of its craft.
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