Saturday, July 16, 2011
FACE OFF
Today's film was the NYTimes Critics' Pick
Great movie. Moving.
So much has been said about this film that there is not much left to say except that the performances of its young stars overwhelm the true story. Somehow, this is the story that I, and probably a lot more people, will believe. It has verisimilitude.
I believe that this is really the way it happened.
Three cheers for Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, all of whom have had my special interest for some time. How nice that they are all in the same film together.
What is there to say? I think that Facebook is the devil's handiwork and this film shows the Faustian cost of inventing it.
Of course FB works. It has the advantage of faux intimacy, it is fast, you don't have to actually talk and listen, and it has the force of multitudes behind it. How many "friends" do you have?
I have recently made these remarks to a young friend who got offended mostly because, I think, he has found a way to exploit the exploiters in his business and is quite cynically and honorably, I suppose, using it to run his business. Another friend, the same story.
And so on.
This is a great film that suffered some peak-too-early problems with the Oscars but who the fuck cares about the Oscars?
Aaron Sorkin wrote and David Fincher directed this beautifully digitalized "film". All in the dark. How right.
Harvard is Harvard. Not sacrosanct. Shabby.
Great.
I would be willing to see it again. That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5. Andrew Garfield is also Spiderman. He has a great ass in lycra.
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