Barely imaginable today, but Mark Zuckerberg was not yet a bad person in 2010. At least not for the 500 million people who were already on his side at the time. When Horror-Noir filmmaker David Fincher announced that it announced a script written by Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”) about the Facebook most successful social network, there were more question marks than blue thumb high-likes: Who should be Please be brutally murdered in such a film? In the Silicon Valley promotion story of a man who was already a billionaire with under thirty?
Today “The Social Network” (now in 4K) is rightly considered a congenial masterpiece of Finchers and Sorkins. A real thriller. Without blood. Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg so unappealing that his career should not recover for years. There was only Lex Luthor for him.
You don’t spend the bow if you consider Zuckerberg in this representation as a mentally relative of the Fincher killer John Doe from “Sieben”. A psychopath that manipulates people, exposes their addictions. Basically an upstart that simply steals his inspiration for bad deeds from other people. Just as Mark Zuckerberg had the Facebook idea the Winklevoss-Zwillingen (played here in a double role by Armie Hammer) and scored his goodwill business partner Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). The three were larger conceptualists than him, that also shows “The Social Network”.
“Move Fast and Break Things” meant for Zuckerberg: clear people out of the way, buy systems (Instagram, WhatsApp) and, if necessary, crawl to crosses. He recently donated to Trump. The announced abolition of the Facebook factual check is intended to mildly correct the President. And prevent the meta group from breaking up. (Plaion pictures)