We routinely tell people to "just facebook me." Many of us now know things about that guy we sat next to in physics last year that we used to not know about some of our friends: political and religious beliefs, favorite bands, relationship status. And I click on the link.Ī week later, campus productivity has all but disappeared. I think it might be spam, and I'm about to delete it when two girls walk by and I hear them say something about a "face book." Well, okay, I think. I open my e-mail and there's an invitation to join a site called. My coworkers and I had had a fantastic time working and living together, and we're sad that we can't keep up with one another as well as we'd like, now that classes are starting and the campus is filling back up. I had spent the summer working as a student orientation advisor for incoming freshmen. I'm sitting in an ugly chair in the student union with my laptop balanced on my knees, checking my senior year course schedule. PSH was a treasure, think he could always do a role justice.It's August 2004. cusack's fucked-up ness alongside the energy of dano was kinda cool to me in some ways it made me imagine what happened in the intermediate years which is probably more terrifying than showing it directly on-screen. par for the course for musical biopics: great music, similar structure, those little moments just before the "big hit" or the breakout or what have you. of course, this is pretty personal taste based stuff i like action film and melodrama tropes a lot for example, but not so much biopic ones. i think the film is better for that reason the presence of his art is enough to show his greatness, but that's contrasted with the world around him, which makes his art even more impressive to contemporary eyes. his life pre-painting and during his highlighted years are characterized as being quite similar and lonely. a film by peter watkins, Edvard Munch, plays with this convention the majority of its 210 minute runtime is munch getting shat on by critics and intellectuals of the time. a lot of biopics strive for it but ultimately i believe it to be very rare for them to actually hit it. but being able to communicate that you're in the presence of greatness is kinda hard imo. zuckerberg was a coding prodigy, mozart was a musical prodigy, etc. I mean i have little doubt that most biopics are accurate in that regard. I haven't seen the movie in a while, so maybe I am way off in terms of the characterization of Mark Zuckerberg.
My takeaway was that Zuckerberg is not an asshole he is just trying to play the part of an asshole CEO.
I think the final line was meant to sum up the movie and punctuate what the viewer's takeaway should be now that they have seen Zuckerberg in a 3 dimensional way. In particular, I believe the douchiness of Justin Timberlake's character rubbed off on Zuckerberg. He wants to be a cutthroat CEO, but he is really just mostly an awkward guy. I think Rashida Jones' character feels sorry for him and tries to let him know that he can be successful and be an okay guy at the same time. I think he does indeed intend on being an asshole because that's what he thinks it takes to be successful. I always took what she said as "I can tell that you aren't an asshole, but I can also tell that you are trying to be an asshole". Interesting, I never thought about it that way. Just my opinion.įor clarification, are you talking about people going to Wikipedia about the movie or going to Wiki and looking up the actual Mark Zuckerberg to learn about the themes of the movie? I really believe that the people who like I-Be Area feel like they are in this secret club and that they believe other people aren't smart enough to appreciate it or "just don't get it". I do, however, think that this movie does a great job at crafting a compelling story rather than sliding by with the title "experimental" as a poor excuse to lure people in to think this has any semblance of quality. Are the themes the MOST subtle in the world? No, but I never said they were. It does have more layers than anyone who hears about a Facebook movie would normally give it credit for at first word of mouth. I believe it's subtle in the sense that a lot of people think about it more as the creation of Facebook rather than the psychological reasons he did it.