Here is a salon.com review of David Fincher's new film, The Social Network, which opened the New York Film Festival last night.
One of the most interesting lines in O'Hehir's review is more about culture than the film itself. We live in an age when "the distinction between the momentous and the ephemeral has evaporated."
Also, pay close attention to the final paragraph that includes several interesting ideas:
- 'irrelevant Zeitgeisty baggage"
- Are movies "metaphysical projections of the collective unconscious instead of internally conflicted products that blend art and commerce"?
- "Did Mark Zuckerberg create this world, or just figure out how to cash in on it?"
If it wasn't Mark Zuckerberg who created facebook, it would have been someone else. It seems like this idea would have sprung up at some point or another. The thing is that Zuckerberg knew that people didn't just want to be connected to other people, but to people they knew. He found a flaw in the basis of sites that had existed before and made a few simple changes while incorporating aspects of human interaction into an online engine.
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