The Social Network (2010) Starring Jessie Eisenberg Is About Business Majors In College And Their Destinies

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2011)

Money won't buy you happiness, but you'd never know that due to screening "The Social Network" about billionaire before he was 30 Mark Zuckerberg, founder and owner of "Facebook" internet website of fame.
This movie is a love letter to Mark and all others who worship big money as an ideal....the reason to go to Harvard University, the reason to drop out (not clear from the movie if Mark dropped out or just took time off but did indeed get his undergrad degree....no mention in the movie of his major studies...if any...at Harvard!)
The Social Network (2010) starring Jesse Eisenberg is about young man named "Mark Zukerberg" who was a 2003 era Harvard College Massachusetts USA undergraduate computer nerd who became the main owner of Facebook and is accounted the youngest billionaire in the USA ....possibly in the world (as of 2010 according to the printed "what happened later" post script words flashed onto the screen in the final scene, a closeup of Zuckerberg/ Eisenberg at his laptop computer staring mournfully at a photo of his former girlfriend.) The movie won the 2010 Golden Globe "Best Drama" award and may win the top 2010 Academy Award prize (not yet announced as of January 2011 when this review is being written).
So, what's it all about and why all the interest? It shows the world of money hungry business majors in college and shows the life of one who grabbed the golden ring, and achieved big money....the wet dream of all business majors and of the part of American society which believes (sincerely!) that "the business of America is business!" And profits, and big money, and all that is part of that.
The star of the movie, Jesse Eisenberg, is a young man portraying a college age undergrad at Harvard College, and was probably born in the 1980's when Ronald Reagan was USA President, and put the final nails in the coffin of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs, and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" and "War On Poverty" programs.
USA President Bill Clinton put additional nails of importance into the same coffin when he gave the USA "NAFTA" and "ended Welfare as we know it." Reagan and Clinton (and the two Bush USA Presidents) announced sincerely that "the party's over" and it was and is.
What remains is what The Social Network (2010) starring Jesse Eisenberg shows.....a heartless social climate where the most famous and prestigious undergraduate college in the USA turns out alumni like Mark Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg's great contribution to America is Facebook and status for him as a billionaire under the age of 40.
When American politicians and government renounced Socialism and all vestiges and/or imitations of it starting with the election of Richard Nixon as USA President in 1968, the world of ruthless business grabs, takeovers, fast buck artists, and kingpins like Mark Zuckerberg began.
Nixon rolled out the red carpet for all this, and the men who followed (USA Presidents from both major parties, both controlled by big business always without a doubt, regardless of protestations to the contrary) began.
The Social Network (2010) shows the USA's national disease at the college level, and shows at least partly what Harvard College has become....not a center of culture and higher ideals, or a place where "Veritas" ("truth" in Latin...Harvard's emblem motto) has any place, but place which attracts and nurtures people like Mark Zukerberg and his minions.
The Social Network (2010) is not great art. It's not even good art.
Like so many Hollywood movies of past times, it is sensational journalism...a portrait of "what's happening" and a behind the scenes look at it all the "newspapers of record" never quite inform people about.
It's depressing, but it's the truth.
Good luck to us all.....we'll need it!
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July 1, 2012.....Columbia PA USA 17512
Additional comments written in 2012 by Tex Allen, author of above review in 2012....
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The Social Network (2009) is a paradigm of what American culture has become. Low standards, the best school in America taken over by low life, dreadful people, and a major Hollywood movie of low quality made about it all, and given the "Best Picture" Academy Award in Feb. 2010 (for "Best Picture" of 2009).
Ugly people doing ugly things, and we're all supposed to celebrate this and pay attention to a big movie made about it. Damn!
It's like Gertrude Stein telling the world 100 years ago that Pablo Picasso was and is a good artist, and his ugly art worth being ranked with Michaelangelo and Raphael.
The Social Network (2009) is eerily similar to Wall Street (1985), made almost a quarter of a century before (Michael Douglas got the "Best Actor" Academy Award for Wall Stree). A movie about bad guys presented in a way that many are expected cheer for the bad guy.
Michael Douglas played an "Ivan Boesky" type.
Jesse Eisenberg played the actual guy who goes to war with his friends and others at Harvard, cheats 'em and wins. In The Social Network (2009) the movie makers didn't even change the name. It's really a "docu-drama."
Ugh!
Aaron Sorkin won the best screenplay Academy Award for SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) and deserved it.
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