Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello
book Aaron Sorkin
Even before speaking one of David Fincher's film as "the godfather of a new generation of computers. The film can redeem on the success story of Internetphänmens "Facebook" this claim? First you have to say one thing: THE SOCIAL NETWORK is no glorification of the myth "Mark Zuckerberg," but takes a very sophisticated look behind the events of the creation of a gigantischen Massenphänomens. Letztenendes bezieht der Film keine Stellung und Fincher [SIEBEN, FIGHT CLUB, DER SELTSAME FALL DES BENJAMIN BUTTON] wagt es nicht ein urteilendes Fazit aus der Geschichte zu ziehen, man kann es ihm sogar sehr hoch anrechnen, dass die Figuren seines Filmes fast durchweg als Unsympathen dargestellt werden.
Der Drang nach Vernetzung
Dramaturgisch kämpft der Film etwas um sich die vollen 120 Minuten über Wasser zu halten. Es gelingt David Fincher zwar ein [fast] spannendes Shakespeare-artiges Drama über Liebe und Erfolg zu knüpfen, aber die Geschichte die dahinter steht wirkt zuweilen etwas künstlich aufgeblasen. Trotzdem ist THE SOCIAL NETWORK der first successful start-up film of the next generation [after some very crude and downright hair-raising attempts - just think of the Bill Gates STARTUP.COM parody starring Tim Robbins]. Especially at the beginning of the film draws the successful image of a generation that longs for networking and will take place as a kind of progressive life in a network. Whether the one shown now to the facts or not, one can understand neither, nor is it for the audience of greater relevance, because the lifestyle of the generation "Web 2.0" is reprinted here very nice and the success story "Facebook" can also as a kind of metaphor for the power of the Internet to be understood.
The portrait of a generation
especially Justin Timberlake [ALPHA DOG] is convincing in the role of the greasy Napster founder Sean Parker, who wants revenge on the "big", while Jesse Eisenberg [ZOMBIE LAND] a successful presentation of Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg is. The real star of the film is the brilliant soundtrack by Trent Reznor [of the band NINE INCH NAILS]. His music is the perfect combination of synthetic music and classic tunes. David Fincher's biography can convince because he, despite his ambivalent characters always retain an objective view of the action and therefore this issue is completely fair.
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