Boy, I liked this movie a lot. This movie just hurtles by and even improves on second viewing.
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One thing I really don't like is conceptual, and it's what hurts the film the most. The girlfriend in the opening scene (and on the Facebook page in the final scene) is fictional. Mark Z. actually has maintained a pretty steady girlfriend for years, which belies the whole movie's concept that he can't get close to people in real life. That fact undercuts everything. Now, this would be problematic enough if Fincher weren't such a stickler for details. So why is it that, when he found out Zuckerberg got drunk on Beck's when he hacked Harvard's servers and created Facemash, he insisted on using that -- instead of the screwdrivers originally written in the script -- under the name of authenticity, but when a major major major underpinning of the entire movie is fictional to make the protagonist less multi-dimensional so he more conveniently fits the film's thesis, that's acceptable?
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One thing I really don't like is conceptual, and it's what hurts the film the most. The girlfriend in the opening scene (and on the Facebook page in the final scene) is fictional. Mark Z. actually has maintained a pretty steady girlfriend for years, which belies the whole movie's concept that he can't get close to people in real life. That fact undercuts everything. Now, this would be problematic enough if Fincher weren't such a stickler for details. So why is it that, when he found out Zuckerberg got drunk on Beck's when he hacked Harvard's servers and created Facemash, he insisted on using that -- instead of the screwdrivers originally written in the script -- under the name of authenticity, but when a major major major underpinning of the entire movie is fictional to make the protagonist less multi-dimensional so he more conveniently fits the film's thesis, that's acceptable?
