The Social Network
Do you think that Social Network main character Mark Zukerberg is a real asshole?
To call the person who created the “greatest fun ever” an asshole would mean that all its users are literally f..d up. Basically in the cinematic reality created by David Fincher we could find the number of eternal messages, which are wrapped in a beautifully shot movie. Social Network makes us laugh, hate and disguise. But over all we receive the old messages about what stay behind the greatest inventions. Fincher doesn’t stop to look back, when 10 years ago he acclaimed his greatest success. Nevertheless no one would punch someone on face these days; it is easier to write an asshole on a Wall to relieve anger.
The story line is based on the origins of the creation the Social Network called Facebook. Young Mark Zukerberg pushed the idea of his fellow students so far, that it turns into the billions dollars worse on-line project. The web-site which managed to gather more than 100 million users and not going to stop its extension. Coming up from the film title “Social Network”, it doesn’t tell us about Facebook, no it’s about what stays behind every great achievement. Without reliving the details of the plot we come through the certain judgment of what the main Character Mark Zukerberg did. Was it right or wrong? Is he a real jerk or he’d done what has to be done?
For somehow Fincher is afraid to ask what is Facebook? In a certain way he laughs from the “blondes” who get hysterical about the relationship status of their boyfriends. Nevertheless, he’s not pointing finger that such “a great thing” Facebook, a magical feature, is mostly pointless in the hands of its users and they are just a bunch of the space monkeys who don’t know what to do with themselves.
The great things are always based on ugly and miserable thoughts, like selfish revenge or youngster’s teenage jealousy. We are all the sources of our own miseries. However, unconsciously during watching the Social Network I want to come back to the Fight Club.
Project Mayhem was created to free the human beings. But it is unreal and can survive only on the screen. Facebook is real, but does it have any purpose? Yes, in real life we can acclaim how it connected us, make closer to each other. However, excuse me, we’ve got internet for this. There was no conflict between Mark and his Creation. Fight Club leads us to the X-point of the screen reality. Tyler was doing his thing, considering it was totally crazy, to change the reality. Mark even doesn’t care much about his creation, he’s proud of it, but in the end of the day it leads him to another point of emptiness. Mark and his Social Network - the relationship which was missed by Fincher. Facebook is acclaimed as a tool, just a cool thing, like a party, an awesome one, the party which will never end; Fight Club was the reflection of ugly truth, a disease which is spread in a human society. But its fictional, Facebook is real.
David Fincher polished and improved his director’s skills during the decade; the tension which movie brings is tremendous. The disappointment comes when it gets clear that we have seen it before, 10 years ago, when it was wrapped in a broken collarbones and pints of blood. Today it is modest, nice and clean, wrapped in blue paper with a white ribbon.
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