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Just watched The Social Network. Thought it was a good story; definitely got wrapped up in it. Perhaps I should say good story-telling? I was pretty much instantly sympathetic to Zuckerberg-the-character, and was nonplussed when early on a (justly) irritated date called him an asshole. To me he came off like many other socially-awkward and highly
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- With that said, he was definitely awful to Erica, and she should have, like, thrown water on him in both her scenes from that movie.
- The final scene took way too big a shortcut. There must have been some better way to show the character's total social failure.
- I would have loved a coalition; was really bothered by how that rumour got treated. I think the Tories sort of controlled every news story this spring.
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I sent stuff about class to your official school address, 'cuz it was the only one listed on Facebook. Let me know if you want me to send it to your hotmail or somewhere else.
re: Zuckberg - I know right!! You can't just not like him. Too flat a reaction. But I think I have to disagree re: watching a movie wrong. It's probably worth being cynical with some movies...
re: Erica - the water would have been agreeably dramatic. I was many kinds of outraged with how he responded to the break up at the beginning, but it kind of faded to my mind by the end. Remembering it does make Zuckerberg less likeable.
re: final scene - awwww and there I was cheering his ability to ask the lawyer to dinner! although I didn't know what to make of deciding to add Erica...
re: Tories - *sigh* agreed.
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Heh, everyone wants in on Anne Perkins' time. I really thought he was just trying to make friends, there, talk longer with someone who didn't hate him.
It would only take one example to prove me wrong, but I really think that if the character's written to disappoint us, that'll work a whole load better if we invest them with something from the start. Maybe one example is There Will Be Blood, where it mostly just worked for people who could accept the (evil) Daniel Day-Lewis character.
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Coincidentally, I also saw The King's Speech the other day, and I think "strangely light" is a very nice way of putting it.
From what I'd heard about it, I was all ready to rant and rave about it for ignoring the "pretty serious context", but it gave me just enough on that front to let me settle in for, well, a very good little movie about some guy with major privilege issues and his relationship with his speech therapist.
Excellent performances with a very good script. Much to my surprise I cared about the privileged guy and was very pleased when he made up with his therapist and even more, when he managed to speak in front of ( ... )
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I'd like to see it too, but I'm not optimistic about the PQ disappearing in the near future. I think they'd always have a stronger claim on voters, and therefore be more firmly entrenched than the BQ, just by virtue of being provincial and thus closer on the ground.
but it actually was a very well-made trifle.
Exactly.
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