2 months to the next decade.I've waited long enough this year for the birth of a great movie.
I am not a facebook junkie.
I hated how political, infringing and intrusive it can become.
I hate how people start collecting friends as a symbol of supreme recognition.
So why did I give a damn for a movie like The Social Network?
Well.
What's great:
Damn David Fincher for keeping the film dark, interwoven and slick. You're a genious for making a dialogue driven movie soo engaging.
Damn Aaron Sorchin for those scripts. Brilliant is an understatement. (damn my vocab!)
Damn Eisenberg for being the geek meets John Nash Gen Y genius behaving socially inept introvert who doesn't give a shit about anything other than facebook domination ... (exhales breathlessly~~) .. top grade performance
What's un-great:
Damn Andrew Garfield for not using his hot charming brit accent. okay okay!! he sounds great for an American.. still... (off tangent from the subject matter, but you are much hotter than Rob Pat)
Damn JT for ... grrr.. I don't know.. being so JT like. prickish and slappable.
I should elaborate more.
The Social Network would have done well without the element of facebook. The movie was intended to be fictional anyway, as there wasn't a responsibility to have an accurate representation of the real people in terms of having to feature what really happened because no one would truthfully know what really happened. I do however appreciate that the actors had a huge artistic commitment to perfect their roles which they did so well under the guidance of David Fincher. Yes, of course, the facebook factor was imperative to the success of the movie especially when the networking tool is so widely used among all generations and how easy it was to relate and identify with this cyber drug. This breeding global internet phenomenon makes it a magnet for the wondering minds who are intrigued by the founders of facebook so please just let The Social Network wow you on a journey that is absolutely mind blowing!
Jesse Eisenberg's performance was exceptional. Dude, where have you been all this while? I loved how you nailed the interpersonal characteristics of an aloof, morally defective whiz kid. You managed to breathe some life into the role with your display of vulnerability when Erika gave the emotional and verbal slaps. I loved that obnoxious looks you gave along with the countless streaks of intelligent insults for the big guns at Harvard and the twins. How unperturbed and distant you looked during the legal proceeding scenes. How ungrateful you made the character become and how friendship and loyalty is nothing but a hitchhike from one destination to the next. How you managed to not make me, as a viewer, despise you is beyond belief. There was so much to hate about yet you proved to be unhateable.
And Sorkin.. I loved the last part. "You are not an asshole, Mark. You just try so hard to be"
Conclusion
I was on such a high during the weekend and I think I still am. Went home and started researching all the characters and the actors' upcoming movies (except JT's). You name it, I did it: google, youtube, wiki, the lot. I was so intrigued by Zuckerberg, Eisenberg and Garfield. I am determined to watch this movie over and over again. At least 3x.
My opinions on facebook remain unchanged and I don't think movie was intended to alter my perception.
But geez. I cannot express how profoundly grateful I am to be a witness of an exceptional work of art.
My 2010 is now complete.
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