http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/business/media/04portrayal.html?_r=2&sq=john%20schwartz&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=4&src=busln&adxnnlx=1286197325-ThhYeU0w1oeBueyEGPpzmA

http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/10/mark-zuckerberg-the-social-network.html

Coming out of Aaron Sorkin's terrific film about the early days of Facebook, The Social Network, we tried to work out quite why it had been so enjoyable. In the end, we concluded that the reason was because it was the first film for grown-ups we had seen for ages where neither love nor violence was at the forefront. The protagonist's romantic feelings surface briefly at the end, and people are threatened with a punch in the head. But mostly it is, grippingly, about the founding of a hugely successful business, and nothing more than that. You don't often see that in the movies these days, or perhaps ever.

When, in the 1970s, an unlikely friendship sprang up between Hattie Jacques and Quentin Crisp, they went to see that fine movie All The President's Men. Afterwards, to her fervent agreement, he remarked that it was a great relief to see a film with "absolutely no sex in it". I suspect one of the reasons people have taken to seeing movies for children is there is no sex, and no real violence; no grown-up concerns, either, alas.

Once in a while, I long to see a film about office life where no-one falls in love; a film about a bank where you know no bandit with a sawn-off shotgun will blow the pretty cashier's head off. Love and death are all very well, but most of us live, and are interested by, worlds of work, money and society. The Social Network does so well, not because it sugars the pill of start-up funds and contractual betrayals with a romantic story, but because it is interested in what, at bottom, we are all interested in. More, please.

http://www.independe...ce-2109307.html

Edited October 18, 201015 yr by Sylph

Y&RWorldTurner, did you see it?

Anybody else? Or is this all we got?

Why would they ruin this movie with Justin Timberlake? Ugh ...

He was good. Especially in the scene in the police station.

Reviving this thread, I saw this and thought it was a fantastic film. For me its a very hard film to describe. I felt it was an excellent commentary on what essentially drives us all, and that is to stand out and be recognized by our peers in society and how we can become so obsessed with that we end up being ostracized to the point of being a loner. I've never really gotten Eisenberg's appeal.... until this film. I felt he was fantastic in conveying those basic themes. Not a flashy performence by any stretch, but effective in so much as the absolute hate you feel for his character but at the same time the pity you also feel. At least that's what I got out of it. Andrew Garfield was equally as compelling and gave in my mind one of the best supporting performances of the year. I hope they both are recognized, but Garfield especially. I am not ready to label it my best movie of 2010, but I suspect it will definitely be top 3.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-en-eisenberg-20101216,0,4640532.story