Wednesday, June 30, 2010

the social network

I saw a screening of the social network. I'm impressed. It's very fast paced, it made the best out of the computer programming gibberish those people were telling each other and it left me with a huge admiration for sexy Harvard graduates.
It's the story of a computer genius, freshman at Harvard, way knowledgeable about computers. He quits Harvard to develop his own interests: the social network we all came to know and love as facebook and the obstacles he had to surmount in order to become a billionaire. An upper, I'd say!
Be smart and you'll be rich, the message is. Except for the exceptions among you, who'll be exceptionally smart and exceptionally rich. Wrong message for the masses, I say.
The acting was good, mainly because Justin Timberlake made an appearance in supporting the message: This movie is cool, has Justin Timberlake in it. The protagonist was so awkward in front of the camera, that he literally looked into the camera in a scene, with a Low POV, of himself exiting a building. Thank God for mastership of Final Cut Pro, cause that way he could actually be a sympathetic character, but not thanks to any trace of talent, which would have been the preferable of the two circumstances.
The imdb profile is here.

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