![]() ![]() The Social Network - directed by David Fincher and adapted by Sorkin from Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires - is not an especially accurate blow-by-blow of Facebook’s dorm-room origins, freely fictionalizing elements of Zuckerberg’s life in order to portray him as a 21st century Charles Foster Kane whose billion-dollar-empire was sparked by an act of impulsive misogyny. Facebook, he concluded, “helped open a large, uncharted territory for a generation whose world first seemed, in many ways, competitively tighter and more predetermined than ever.” Nathan Heller at Slate argued that the film’s version of Harvard’s social strata was similarly out of touch. “This is like a film about the atomic bomb which never even introduces the idea that an explosion produced through atomic fission is importantly different from an explosion produced by dynamite,” he wrote. At the New Republic, Lawrence Lessig noted how little screenwriter Aaron Sorkin knew or cared about the internet. “Horrifically unfair,” decried Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick, who happened to have written a glowing account of the company’s early years called The Facebook Effect. When The Social Network opened in theaters on October 1, 2010, it was greeted with a lot of chin-stroking over whether it was too hard on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch her live commentary, and look ahead at next week’s movie here. ![]() This week’s selection comes from film critic Alison Willmore, who will begin her screening of The Social Network on June 19 at 7 p.m. ![]() And if you liked that movie I think you'll like this one, too.Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin and Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network Photo: Columbia/Kobal/ShutterstockĮvery week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club. The film is cut from the same cloth as the (superior) "Spotlight," which also featured Keaton and Tucci. It's ultimately the story of a rich guy who learns to care about others, and honestly, that's not exactly the type of story we need more of right now. But I'm a sucker for this kind of talky analytical drama, where great actors sit together in rooms and rattle off reams of dialogue at each other. "Worth" is not a great movie, and it has some serious flaws. The analytical Feinberg sees all of this as a matter of facts and figures, but when he starts talking to the families of the victims he realizes this approach won't fly. It certainly doesn't sit right with Charles Wolf (Stanley Tucci), a man who lost his wife in the attacks, who refuses to let Feinberg approach his job with such emotionally cold distance. Michael Keaton is Kenneth Feinberg, a famous lawyer put in charge of the task along with his law partner Camille Biros (Amy Ryan). "Worth" is based on the true story of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which was tasked with allocating financial resources to the victims of 9/11. Cast: Michael Keaton, Amy Ryan, Stanley Tucci, Tate Donovan, Shunori Ramanathan, Laura Benanti ![]()
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