The Cinema For 10/1/10: Maybe Apart Of Your Next Status Update
Hopefully this will lead to all the jokes of a Twitter and MySpace movie ending, as "The Social Network" is finally hear for everyone to see. Jesse Eisenburg acts out his fellow "Burg" to a tee in 2010's latest class movie And it is certainly is among the quintessence of 2010 films, an eye brow raising reality considering how derided the original thought of it was. The top two keys that make this "movie of the year" material are its directing and the dialogue. All of it is highlighted in its glorified opening scene, as the Silicon Valley Mercury News' Charlie McCollum notes : You are plopped down in a Boston restaurant in the fall of 2003. On one side of the table, there's Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), then a Harvard student but soon to be the co-founder of Facebook. On the other side, there's Erica Albright (Rooney Mara), a Boston University coed he's been dating. What follows is a verbal knife fight between two smart peo...