"The Social Network" ("The Social Network") - USA 2010-121 min. - Director: David Fincher - Written by Aaron Sorkin, after a presentation by Ben Mezrich ("The Accidental Billionaires") - Produced by: Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin, Aaron Sorkin (Executive Producer), Kevin Spacey (Executive Producer) - Camera: Jeff Cronenweth - Editor: Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall - Music: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Distributor: Sony Pictures - Rating: from 12 years - Length: 121 min. - Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Joseph Mazzello, Patrick Mapel, Max Minghella, Andrew Garfield, Josh Pence and others - theatrical release (D): 07/10/2010.
David Fincher has grown up. Until now, the filmmaker, who in the 1980s, significantly, began as a video director and animator for blockbusters such as "Return of the Jedi" and "The Neverending Story", primarily noticed as a highly talented aesthetics as someone that has a good effect, be it dramatic or visual, so did appreciate the fact that his movies though outwardly perfect, but sometimes something inane content impacts. "Seven" (1995) and "Fight Club" (1999), both excellent films in their own way, were sent into shock and collapse images - we remember: the rains in a movie, there are 6 / 7 of the term, the other is mainly kept in green-yellow decay colors and begins with a long tracking shot through the brain of the protagonist, rapidly on neurons and synapses along until the unchained camera from a Schweißpore shoots out and we are in the midst arrived in the film (more precisely, at the end point of the action , is told from the flashbacks in the film). "The Game" (1997) and "Panic Room" (2002) were concept films, excellently directed finger exercises, each based on a consistently played idea. Some of the technical cabinet pieces that Fincher housed in these films, such as the planned sequence in "Panic Room", the one impossible ' Tracking shot through the handle comprised of a coffee pot are still impressive set pieces. And "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008), the film about a child born as an old man child, who regressed over the course of the film in his steadily tapered body to the old man was, after all, a single special effect, in which Brad Pitt to see the title role only for a few sequences without his body was digitally reworked. In the retro-thriller "Zodiac" (2007) were then the first time the pieces in the center. But only in "The Social Network denies himself all the technical director of the fuss that characterized his previous films, is his virtuoso technical talent in the background, all in the service of the plot and characters. Since it is almost like an insult that is here played by Jesse Eisenberg Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg similar as Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" a kind of empty center.
Eisenberg Mark Zuckerberg is a nerd, a socially incompetent, totally egocentric computer geek who has a massive problem with women and authority. At the very beginning of the movie makes his girlfriend Erica (Rooney Mara), with the lanky Harvard students conclude they can not stand ignorance Eisenberg. And since Mark is a gifted hacker, he takes revenge on the whole the same female students and designed a website on which he takes on the wild stolen from the Internet pictures of fellow students and they can be evaluated by the web community to attract,. While he was in for a few seconds the computer networks of various universities pirates, he feeds his blog and parallel talks to his roommates. Soon after, the child prodigy because of the enormous success of its sexist fun guerrilla action, not only trouble with university administrators, but also a new job for two rich snob an online networking platform for students to construct. It will soon be "The Face Book", later named simply "Facebook", and Zuckerberg the youngest living billionaire today (estimated personal fortune currently 6.9 billion U.S. dollars).
But what makes this contradictory character, which the U.S. film posters presented with the illustrious triad "Punk Billionaire genius", in the innermost drives, which remains open. That he his first financial backers, the Winklevoss brothers (Armie Hammer and Josh pence), with the Facebook project on the table moves to a representative of humiliating two privileged upper class toffs (as their lawyers suggest), is in a sense the class struggle-reading of Sugar Mountain ascent. Perhaps he is also out of pure ignorance, is simply being his Idea ruined genius who does not perceive their environment more, in slippers and trudges through the snow mainly of pizza and Coke lives and left his dorm room any more. Or maybe he's just greedy, recognizes the potential of the idea, boots finally even his best friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), if he can to earn billions instead of millions. Or all that, the whole plot of the film, is the result of an act of compensation, with which the young man responded to the rejection by his girlfriend - the "Citizen Kane" version if you will, with Erica than sugar's Rosebud. A clear answer has not Fincher. Ultimately, it will the spectators be permitted to make to make sense of the motivation of the protagonist. Only he is not particularly likeable. Fincher has been on the trailer can create a women's choir that sings a version of Radiohead's "Creep." The real Zuckerberg took Fincher's film in any case very seriously and has a 100-million donation to educational institutions announced. Also a way to counter the negative publicity that he has given "The Social Network", like "Citizen Kane" 70 years before the press barons William Randolph Hearst.
Like "Citizen Kane", which hides a real biography and a themed era with its Changes in the media landscape portrayed alternates, who told in flashbacks, "The Social Network" between genres, mixing Courtroom drama and biopic, brings a little Melo and thrillers, sometimes has something of a teen comedy, then again by a company parabola. Moreover, like all Fincherfilme is now, of course, beautifully photographed (Camera: Jeff Cronenweth), opened with a stylish title sequence (with echoes of the one from "Panic Room") and comes in its muted brown and orange hues as noble as a tropical wood table in a more century-old university library so. The cut is masterful, the score Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) and Atticus Ross brilliant as it were. In short: the film is technically excellent, as good as just this year. But this time pushing this brilliance is not so much to the fore as in the previous films, Fincher, the average moviegoer it may perhaps be overlooked easily. It's a little, so if the director has understood that he no longer has to show off, to create no longer strong-arm tactics have a reputation. And that's good: "The Social Network" one of the best films Fincher has become. However, it is almost a little ironic that he to direct the film with his protagonists had been immature.
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