Directed by David Fincher, 2010
Apart from Julian Assenge, who currently finds himself at the receiving end of uncountable lawsuits, hackers' worship and a fatwa by Sarah Palin, Mark Zuckerberg is the person most likely to be named TIME person of the year 2010. The Social Network, a biopic (spanning only around four years) directed by one of today's most respected thrill-directors, is not the reason Zuckerberg is likely to be picked - it is rather a symptom of the influence he has had on 2010, if not the bulk of this past decade. Based on the 2009 bookThe Accidental Billionaires, which recounts the making of facebook from the point of view of Zuckerberg's once best friend, Eduardo Saverin (played in the film by Andrew Garfield). The Social Network will be among the films to look out for at the upcoming Academy Awards.
After being dumped by his girlfriend ("not cause you're a nerd - it's cause you're an asshole"), Zuckerberg gets drunk and starts blogging about her while creating facemash.com, where users can rate female Harvard students according to attractiveness. The site is so popular that the system crashes - and Zuckerberg realises the power a keyboard can bring. The predicament that this night gets him into establishes the basis for the rest of the picture, a long and grueling lawsuit. Fincher and screenwriter Sorking must be given a great deal of credit for telling this story in a thrilling way while sticking to the, admittedly somewhat subjective, story. There are very few moments in which you think there's no way this happened while Eisenberg's performance is gripping from start to finish. Fincher, whose most characteristic films are gloomy thrillers like Se7en, Fight Club or Alien³, puts his mark on the projekt by portraying Harvard as a rainy, clique-hell, where your only goal can be to get into one of the societies. Zuckerberg himself is no exception. The final scene , which I obviously will not disclose, shows how despite how far he has come since that fateful night in 2003, that initial humiliation still haunts and drives him. Good or bad, hero or villain? The TIME jury will have to ask itself the same question when they choose which nerd is the most influential: the one who, to get to 500 million friends, made a few enemies; or the one who made at least half a billion enemies and few friends.
The Social Network is likely to be nominated for the following Academy Awards:
After being dumped by his girlfriend ("not cause you're a nerd - it's cause you're an asshole"), Zuckerberg gets drunk and starts blogging about her while creating facemash.com, where users can rate female Harvard students according to attractiveness. The site is so popular that the system crashes - and Zuckerberg realises the power a keyboard can bring. The predicament that this night gets him into establishes the basis for the rest of the picture, a long and grueling lawsuit. Fincher and screenwriter Sorking must be given a great deal of credit for telling this story in a thrilling way while sticking to the, admittedly somewhat subjective, story. There are very few moments in which you think there's no way this happened while Eisenberg's performance is gripping from start to finish. Fincher, whose most characteristic films are gloomy thrillers like Se7en, Fight Club or Alien³, puts his mark on the projekt by portraying Harvard as a rainy, clique-hell, where your only goal can be to get into one of the societies. Zuckerberg himself is no exception. The final scene , which I obviously will not disclose, shows how despite how far he has come since that fateful night in 2003, that initial humiliation still haunts and drives him. Good or bad, hero or villain? The TIME jury will have to ask itself the same question when they choose which nerd is the most influential: the one who, to get to 500 million friends, made a few enemies; or the one who made at least half a billion enemies and few friends.
The Social Network is likely to be nominated for the following Academy Awards:
Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin
Best Picture: Fincher, Rudin et al
Best Director: David Fincher
Best Actor: Jesse Eisenberg
Best Editing: Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
No comments:
Post a Comment