I honestly feel like the Social
Network is a bad movie. I don’t like the “creator” of Facebook and how
pretentious he is. I hate that he sues his undeserving best friend, and it
doesn’t make any sense that the rich guys still get the money from Mark. The fact
that Zuckerberg wrote those awful things about his girlfriend or that the
lawyer saw something in him is all beyond me. I had the hardest time relating
to this movie, even though it is about a very common and understanding
thing-Facebook. I just don’t get it, and, maybe that’s the beauty of the movie
because I feel like I need to watch it again and again to truly understand what
exactly was trying to be said.
I hated the way Mark was so utterly
infatuated with Justin Timberlake based on the way Justin presented himself.
Mark betrayed his friend because of this man. I could not stand the fact that
Mark swooped under his friend’s feet and sold nearly all of his shares in the
company. Who does that? And why? Jealousy makes people do awful things. That’s what
Mark did to his friend and that also what the rich twins did to Mark. Jealously
can create evil.
The Social Network was confusing
for me in the way that it relates to identity. I have been lost at the idea that the Social Network and
Brave New World relate to each other in anyway. So to keep it simple I looked
at the way the characters acted in the movie. They all created themselves in a
certain way through social media. One chooses how others will view them based
on the filtered versions of our profile pictures and the info we add to our
bios. Everything we add to our web page is what creates us in this “unreal”
version of a new world. In the
same way Brave New world created each person and left him or her in that
stereotype. Everyone is categorized into the places they want to be.
