'The Social Network': A Review Of Aaron Sorkin's Film About Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg
But as a story about Facebook, it is deeply, deeply flawed. As I watched the film, and considered what it missed, it struck me that there was more than a hint of self-congratulatory contempt in the motives behind how this story was told. Imagine a jester from King George III’s court, charged in 1790 with writing a comedy about the new American Republic. That comedy would show the new Republic through the eyes of the old. It would dress up the story with familiar figures—an aristocracy, or a wannabe aristocracy, with grand estates, but none remotely as grand as in England. The message would be, “Fear not, there’s no reason to go. The new world is silly at best, deeply degenerate, at worst.
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Lawrence Lessig's excellent though skewed review of Social Network. As one could expect from Lessig, it will be about how the movie misses the point of freedom of expression on the internet.
