By now, you've probably read so many glowing reviews of The Social Network that you want to take a fork to your eyes. If the praise for director David Fincher, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and star Jesse Eisenberg has failed to lure you to the multiplex, I bet I know why. Something in you just plain balks at being told that one of the year's best movies is a knockout dramatization of the creation of Facebook.
If so, rest easy. Pro or con, The Social Network's makers aren't too concerned with judging Facebook as an accomplishment. Adding a sneaky double meaning to the movie's title, they're after bigger game. Since FB founder Mark Zuckerberg and the enablers he screwed over all hooked up first at Harvard, welcome to a dead-on look at the paradoxes of America's caste system in this ostensibly egalitarian society of ours. Considering that most of Washington and Wall Street's power brokers are products of the same milieu, timeliness isn't exactly the movie's problem.
It wouldn't work without Eisenberg's cantankerous performance as the misfit who ended up in a position to buy and sell his classmates. An MVP in the making ever since his role as the older son in The Squid And The Whale, this amazingly focused young actor passes up one easy opportunity after another to make Zuckerberg sympathetic. Thanks in large part to him, the results unspool like a j.v. Citizen Kane crossed with Rebel Without A Cause for nerds.
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