The Social Network (2010)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Synopsis:
A Harvard student is inspired by a drunken prank and the interest it draws from certain elite members of the university to create a social networking site he calls The Facebook. Within weeks it is a phenomenal success at all the top schools in the US; within months he is responding to lawsuits for intellectual theft and defrauding his partner.
Review:
As this synopsis suggests, what might have been in other hands a somewhat indigestible piece of technodrama is spiced up no end by a snappy central performance and writing and editing that mimic the extraordinary AI-like processes of his brain, whereby conversation is reduced to lines of reviewable programme text and the entire narrative to a thematic jigsaw puzzle. Shot in Fincher's trademark brown-tinted gloom, the film's account of how billions of dollars were made out of a free-to-use website is a wake-up call to the bemused oldies who still believed that nothing came of nothing.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Synopsis:
A Harvard student is inspired by a drunken prank and the interest it draws from certain elite members of the university to create a social networking site he calls The Facebook. Within weeks it is a phenomenal success at all the top schools in the US; within months he is responding to lawsuits for intellectual theft and defrauding his partner.
Review:
As this synopsis suggests, what might have been in other hands a somewhat indigestible piece of technodrama is spiced up no end by a snappy central performance and writing and editing that mimic the extraordinary AI-like processes of his brain, whereby conversation is reduced to lines of reviewable programme text and the entire narrative to a thematic jigsaw puzzle. Shot in Fincher's trademark brown-tinted gloom, the film's account of how billions of dollars were made out of a free-to-use website is a wake-up call to the bemused oldies who still believed that nothing came of nothing.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Synopsis:
A Harvard student is inspired by a drunken prank and the interest it draws from certain elite members of the university to create a social networking site he calls The Facebook. Within weeks it is a phenomenal success at all the top schools in the US; within months he is responding to lawsuits for intellectual theft and defrauding his partner.
Review:
As this synopsis suggests, what might have been in other hands a somewhat indigestible piece of technodrama is spiced up no end by a snappy central performance and writing and editing that mimic the extraordinary AI-like processes of his brain, whereby conversation is reduced to lines of reviewable programme text and the entire narrative to a thematic jigsaw puzzle. Shot in Fincher's trademark brown-tinted gloom, the film's account of how billions of dollars were made out of a free-to-use website is a wake-up call to the bemused oldies who still believed that nothing came of nothing.